IDVTuber Tracker — Notes
A quick check-in on where things stand with IDVTuber Tracker, since there’s been a bit of movement behind the scenes lately.
Reverie and ENIGMYST Pro have been added to the tracked roster. That brings the total organization count up again, on top of the 36+ orgs and 220+ channels already being tracked.
Is this the last addition? Maybe! Every time I think the roster is “done,” another group turns up that’s worth tracking. So consider this the hopeful final addition rather than a firm one. If another group surfaces that deserves a spot, it’ll get added like the rest.
The original idea was to fully migrate the main tracker’s self-hosted runner onto a dedicated SBC (the Raspberry Pi 3B+), replacing the whole PC setup entirely. That migration is now cancelled.
Instead, the Pi is being repurposed to run a second, fully separate tracker instance, one dedicated to indie VTubers: talents who aren’t affiliated with any organization. Rather than squeezing everything into one pipeline, the indie tracker gets its own repos, its own database, its own ORG_MAP-equivalent, and now its own hardware. The main tracker stays where it is.
This felt like a better use of the Pi’s capacity than just being a like-for-like replacement runner. One box, two independent jobs, no risk of the indie experiment destabilizing the main dashboard.
Possibly. Down the line, but there’s no firm plan yet. The two dashboards are intentionally isolated right now (separate repos, separate Postgres, separate GCP project), which was the right call while the indie side was still being stood up and debugged. Once it’s stable, it’d be nice to have some kind of cross-link between “orgs” and “indies” for anyone browsing the site, but figuring out a good way to do that, without just bolting on a janky nav link, still needs some thought. No rush on this one.
The indie tracker is currently running on its own modest YouTube Data API allocation, and honestly, it’s probably fine for now given how few channels it’s tracking. Requesting a quota increase for it feels premature. That’s more of a “when the indie list actually grows” problem than a “right now” problem. If the tracked indie count climbs meaningfully, that’s when it’ll be worth filing the request. Until then, no action needed.
More updates as the indie side matures.