Show HN: I made a chat roulette for remote workers • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: I made a chat roulette for remote workers

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Post by DonHopkins » Sat, Mar 14, 2020, 1:00 AM UTC

larrywright wrote: post #11

I wish I could be optimistic that this won’t be abused by creepy guys to show off their junk, but I’m not.

But it's only high quality junk that's worth $5 to show off.

This guy's junk would definitely qualify:

LGR: Exploring a MASSIVE Retro Computer Warehouse!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvM82T3C2Ik

Re: Show HN: I made a chat roulette for remote workers

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Post by junetic » Sat, Mar 14, 2020, 1:30 AM UTC

Not designed for random matching, but we're beta testing a free always-on voice app for remote teams for anyone interested - https://www.presence.so

Re: Show HN: I made a chat roulette for remote workers

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Post by Cam_F » Sat, Mar 14, 2020, 9:39 AM UTC

Hi! Do you already have some paying customers? Best

Re: Show HN: I made a chat roulette for remote workers

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Post by ThePowerOfFuet » Sat, Mar 14, 2020, 1:38 PM UTC

> For European users, this website is GDPR compliant.

lol. You're collecting PII but not stating uses, identity of the controller, nothing. Nope.

Re: Show HN: I made a chat roulette for remote workers

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Post by thrownaway954 » Sat, Mar 14, 2020, 2:44 PM UTC

roflchoppa2 wrote: post #36

thrownaway954 wrote: post #34

cough IRC cough

what channel we in dawg?

the one where i put on my robe and wizard hat

Re: Show HN: I made a chat roulette for remote workers

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Post by Disruptive_Dave » Sun, Mar 15, 2020, 4:51 PM UTC

azhenley wrote: post #43

Disruptive_Dave wrote: post #32

Oh man, we did this (MVP style) about 6 years ago, called it Collabo. Tested it with a Facebook group, then we manually connected random people together and scheduled them video chats. We called it "the water cooler for solopreneurs." Really just a fun experiment more than a business. Happy to share whatever learnings I can dig up. Edit: Just found the homepage mock. "A first-of-its-kind virtual water cooler for free…

What happened with it? Why didn't you continue with the concept?

Bunch of reasons - never intended to do anything other than have fun with it, co-founded another startup that ended up catching a little fire, and finally, it was just me (marketer) and a designer doing this. Would love to see it work, though.