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Re: Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users

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Post by hardwaresofton »

amadeuspagel wrote: post #20
jorgesborges wrote: post #14

Cool idea. I spent a few minutes waiting for a match but no luck, so I’ll try again later. If this link was shared to say, Reddit or 4chan, would it be fair to say we wouldn’t pair with random HN users?

Of course I have no way to know who really is an HN user. But why would anyone who isn't use an app that's marketed as voicechat with random HN users? In the long term, I want to make it possible for everyone to have their own coffeehouse ... voicechat with random people from your favorite subreddit, readers of your favorite blog, etc..

Sure there is! https://loginwithhn.com

Re: Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users

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Post by littlestymaar »

amadeuspagel wrote: post #85
littlestymaar wrote: post #78

From about:WebRTC in Firefox, > iceServers: > urls: ["stun:stun.l.test.com:19000"] With such a STUN server URL, no wonder nobody ever gets a match… And it's kind of a nasty bug: it doesn't appear anywhere in the JS console, or in the network tab of the browser, and it's likely to work when testing locally (I haven't tested, but you should not need stun to generate local ICE candidate) so the dev could have tested in…

Thanks. I replaced that with an array of servers.

But it still doesn't work, because there should be “stun:” at the begining of the URL.

(Otherwise you get this Error “RTCPeerConnection constructor passed invalid RTCConfiguration - improper scheme” (Firefox, but you should have a similar one in any browser))

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30185324 has the error as it appears in Chrome.

Re: Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users

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Post by barbs »

Keen to try this, though unfortunately I'm at work at the moment.

On a similar note, is there an (un)official HackerNews IRC/Slack/Discord of some kind? A few times I'll be trying to find an article/comment section of something I remember reading on HN, but can't find it using the search or my upvoted submissions. It would be nice to have somewhere I can ask minor questions without making a post.

Re: Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users

#97

Post by barbs »

hardwaresofton wrote: post #90
karimf wrote: post #87

I haven't used this, but there was a submission recently for adding LoginWithHN functionality. Maybe this could be used to verify HN users. https://loginwithhn.com/

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.

Re: Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users

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Post by skinnymuch »

adventured wrote: post #28
paxys wrote: post #8

This is my nightmare

I tried four of these chats. The first just rambled about how much PHP sucks and how great Postgres is, for no apparent reason. The second touted how amazing Kubernetes is, and then asked if I could help them configure it for their small project. The third went on a long rant about how they could build Zoom as a weekend MVP. The fourth tried to explain how we should run the entire world on SQLite.

Hahaha. It took my brain until the 3rd example to realize this is a joke.

Re: Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users

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Post by throwamon »

slingnow wrote: post #72

How has this been voted so high up given that it: 1. Doesn't seem to work for anyone 2. Doesn't have anything specific to do with HN users. Since anyone can use it, it's just a random voice chat connection website.

Goes to show the relative power of titles over content in getting stuff to the front page. And makes one wonder how much awesome stuff is buried because the title wasn't shiny enough.
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