Very cool. How does it work?
Show HN: Chat with HN users while you visit HN
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#12Perhaps you could adapt this to become an Olark competitor.. it's too expensive in my view.. for users to speak with site admins.
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#13Perhaps you could adapt this to become an Olark competitor.. it's too expensive in my view.. for users to speak with site admins.
It's not really for site admins. For us, it has become a user-initiated sales channel with users reaching out to us on how our product will help in his or her situation.
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#14chat history would be good.. my chat stopped dead.. would like to go back and review what's said. Bookmarklet can display how many people online and color-coded for activity level.
.. and it would be very convenient if it could stay up while on the same domain (e.g., a hidden top-level iframe?).
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#15Perhaps you could adapt this to become an Olark competitor.. it's too expensive in my view.. for users to speak with site admins.
It's not really for site admins. For us, it has become a user-initiated sales channel with users reaching out to us on how our product will help in his or her situation.
but how do you initially get the chat room up and running without their cooperation.
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#16Amusingly, before I started using the Internet in the mid-nineties, I had thought that this functionality was a basic component to "surfing the web".
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#17What do you have at the back-end?
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#18I like this idea, but here's a word of warning: ICQ actually had software that did this about a hundred years ago. It was a stand alone app you would download, and you could chat with people viewing whatever webpage you were on. And I remember running into another person exactly once on this service, and that was while visiting altavista.com (this was before google). And this was from a company that presumably had a…
I see a bigger problem of why would I want to chat with anyone just because they visited the same site? Strong communities probably already have a mechanism for that. If I want to talk to HNers I got to the IRC channel.
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#19This looks great! Awesome job. Would love to read more about which technologies you used to build it.
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#20Even Google has tried it and it didn't go anywhere.