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Re: Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online

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This is great. Been looking for a way to create a "virtual water cooler" for our team as we move 40+ people remote. Does the room always exist, and people can hop in and out? What's the business model? IE how can we pay for the service/support the mission?

You can do this for free with the open source Jitsi project, use https://meet.jit.si or install your own.

Re: Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online

#82

I suggest removing the NES/SNES emulator part as it will cause Nintendo to send you a Cease and Desist letter. Or probably more.

If he's not hosting copyrighted ROMs himself, then it should be fine. Sony couldn't beat Bleem! in court: https://v1.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/is...

Emulators live in a very grey legal territory.

They are the product of reverse engineering of proprietary schematics/designs/programs.

Re: Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online

#85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which platform? It might also depend on the content, hmmm.

I'm not sure I should share my secrets now lol. But the answer is linux. I haven't tried screensharing before. But I have tried with other DRM stuff and it got blocked. So I wouldn't be surprised if this was a fluke. Definitely makes making memes easier though.

If the video quality is low enough then Netflix and co don't bother. It also varies on who is the content supplier, some are less fussed about protecting content that doesn't bring in much money.

Re: Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online

#88
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Been developing this platform for over a year. It allows you to create virtual rooms where you can chat with room members using webcam and microphone and run realtime apps that include: - Screensharing(useful for e.g. Netflix) - Cowatching video player - SNES and NES Emulators - Virtual cardtable - Poker with Playmoney - Quake 3 in-browser! - Synced YouTube player and many more coming.

Interesting!

I started a room, then started a video chat in it. Is there a way to do something else (e.g. play poker) without having to create a new room?

Re: Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online

#89
post #2

Been developing this platform for over a year. It allows you to create virtual rooms where you can chat with room members using webcam and microphone and run realtime apps that include: - Screensharing(useful for e.g. Netflix) - Cowatching video player - SNES and NES Emulators - Virtual cardtable - Poker with Playmoney - Quake 3 in-browser! - Synced YouTube player and many more coming.

Interesting! I started a room, then started a video chat in it. Is there a way to do something else (e.g. play poker) without having to create a new room?

Ah to answer my own question. I wasn't logged in and created then left/rejoined and was no longer an admin.

Re: Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online

#90
post #50

This is pretty cool - I'm wondering what like, makes it different than just having a zoom call or something on discord? I can tell it's different I just don't know how to articulate it and I'm curious how you'd differentiate it from other ways to hang out online? Looks really cool!

I would say the difference lies in the ability to start interactive apps in addition to chatting/communicating

I really like the fact you don't need to signup to use it.
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