>>174984If you've never done any sort of content creation or streaming before, I would heavily suggest just getting your feet wet with as little investment as possible. Streaming can be a lot more taxing than people think, even if you're mostly just being yourself. Draw up a schedule of about 4~12 hours a week (depending on how hard you want to go in), made up of a consistent and regular schedule, and stick with it for at least a month. The routine is very important to establish, as consistency will help determine a good portion of your long-term viewerbase, and it's just a good habit to get into. It's also important to keep a "show must go on" mentality. If your shit breaks, keep at it until your scheduled stream time is over. It's one thing if IRL prevents you from doing anything, but you should consider your stream schedule to be akin to your work schedule if you want to make it a job. If you're late all the time or don't deliver, you're fired. Even if you're streaming to literally 0 average viewers, pretend it's hundreds. Keep up a dialogue or commentary of some kind. If somebody clicks into your stream and you're just sitting there and then turn to go "hey Anonystupidfaggot, thanks for coming to my stream!", then turn back to staring silently at the game, they're probably going to leave.
If you can withstand the grind of doing this for a month or two, then think about what upgrades you might want to make to you or your setup, what order you might want to make them, and what you'd need to do in order to get there. Plan, Schedule, and Work. Fortune favors the prepared. Do your reps.