"All features are available for free during the βeta period! " I like that!
Show HN: Room.sh – a simple online meeting space
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Re: Show HN: Room.sh – a simple online meeting space
#12Hey HN, co-founder of room.sh here, happy to answer any questions. We started out building online tools for education but soon began using them to have our own meetings. Behind the scenes, things are powered by a CRDT (specifically, https://github.com/y-js/yjs ) and we're using Janus as a WebRTC SFU. It's not peer to peer, but this brings some advantages (simplicity, more reliable connections, better support for larg…
That's cool. How many people can be present simultaneously in the meeting at most?
At the moment, it's limited to 8 with AV. Without AV though, we've tested past a few hundred with no problems.
We've got a pretty long pipeline of features, one of them includes a better setup for things like webinars, with one presenter and a large number of consumers.
Re: Show HN: Room.sh – a simple online meeting space
#13One feature that's either missing or I just couldn't find was screen sharing. It's my understanding that screen sharing can be done with WebRTC on modern browsers (except Safari?) Other than that, this looks really fantastic.
Hey Lowkeyloki, if your browser supports it, you should be able to find the Share Screen button in the bottom left-hand corner of your video feed (the monitor icon).
I think that screen share ability should be mentioned in features in prominent place, I was skimming website in order to find out what is it and seemingly non-existent screen share was the reason why I discarded it immediately without even trying anything. Now I'll give it a second look.
Re: Show HN: Room.sh – a simple online meeting space
#14This looks really great. Another cool feature is adding would be adding codepen-like features if the file is set to javascript, with an export to codepen/gist functionality. Or something similar to repl.it
Re: Show HN: Room.sh – a simple online meeting space
#15Nicely put together. One minor thing to consider is for drawing lines in the whiteboard the current approach seems to be line drawing starts with a ctrl+click. In other applications (e.g. gimp) it seems more natural to trigger line drawing via the end location (e.g. shift+click draws a line from the last drawn point to the cursor location).
Since I've seen the latter behavior more frequently it seems to be the more intuitive/usable option, though that's just my experience.