Just had a nice little chat with a stranger. Thanks!
Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users
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#112I made something very similar. neartribe.com where you could video chat with people near you. Ran into similar problems as @sailorganymede where users would need to wait very long to be matched with someone & eventually get bored & log off.
The project is still live but in retrospect I would have started with a niche audience & let them decide on a time before hand. Then start on demand matching only when the site reached a critical mass of users.
On a side note I am impressed that your post reached the top page & got >150 upvotes. When I tried posting I was only able to get 3-5 upvotes :/
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#113I wrote something similar (Lunchtime.io) as a way for the Open COVID-19 Initiative to relax with other members. One issue I found early on was that people would wait for ages to get into a call and leave. So we solved it by letting people pick times which suit them, showing how many people had picked that time, receive email reminders when that time approached and once the time came up, we’d give them a link. made th…
I made something very similar neartribe.com to allow multiple users to video chat with each other based on distance proximity & interest
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#114It works for me. Love it.
Please tell me how I can build something like this?
Re: Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users
#115I wrote something similar (Lunchtime.io) as a way for the Open COVID-19 Initiative to relax with other members. One issue I found early on was that people would wait for ages to get into a call and leave. So we solved it by letting people pick times which suit them, showing how many people had picked that time, receive email reminders when that time approached and once the time came up, we’d give them a link. made th…
I made something very similar neartribe.com to allow multiple users to video chat with each other based on distance proximity & interest
That's really cool. Can you add other login options?
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#116It works for me. Love it. Please tell me how I can build something like this?
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#117I logged on to Omeagle after about 20 years of thinking it was dead and my eyes burned off on the first try... It's majorly creepy as it was in the past, and very NSFW as well.
One on one audio chat sounds cool provided you can keep the NFT and Crypto madness, catfishers, hackers, and scammers all at bay... And audio only is a better idea as a first meet method. Maybe limit users to 1 call per hour to discourage bad behavior... I bookmarked it.
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#118Cool idea. Matched with someone instantly
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#119I have tried Lunchclub. I liked the fact that it relies its user base with work and professional background. However once the initial contact is made, ongoing conversation rarely took place.
Hope this solves the problem of ongoing conversation.
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
Appreciate the shout out! I just released self serve client app signup so everyone who’s making stuff for HN like this please check it out —- you should be able to build your OAuth2+OIDC login flow right away.
This is really cool, thanks for making it! I wonder if it would be possible to limit Oauth access to accounts with a minimum karma level? Maybe it's a problem that doesn't exist yet, but I could imagine it would help defend against spammy throwaway accounts.
Hey sorry for the delay, but karma has been added as part of the data relayed by OAuth2.
You can easily disallow someone from logging in via your app once you get the data related to their OAuth2 token.