Show HN: Typr.club, realtime gif-based chat rooms

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Post by ruiramos » Wed, Aug 17, 2016, 3:03 PM UTC

Show HN: Typr.club, realtime gif-based chat rooms
typr.club

Re: Show HN: Typr.club, realtime gif-based chat rooms

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Post by ruiramos » Wed, Aug 17, 2016, 3:03 PM UTC

Hi everyone! I made typr.club as an experiment to build some kind of 'augmented' chat room, where people could transmit their presence, emotions, reactions... by attaching a short video to their text messages.

It works with rooms, you can just create one by appending whatever to the URL. It has some other features like converting all your messages to GIFs (memes alert!!), integrating with Slack and it can send you web push notifications on activity, if you wish to Subscribe to a room. More info/code here: https://github.com/ruiramos/typr.club

Hope you like it, feedback welcome!

Re: Show HN: Typr.club, realtime gif-based chat rooms

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Post by andrewclunn » Wed, Aug 17, 2016, 3:07 PM UTC

ruiramos wrote: post #2

Hi everyone! I made typr.club as an experiment to build some kind of 'augmented' chat room, where people could transmit their presence, emotions, reactions... by attaching a short video to their text messages. It works with rooms, you can just create one by appending whatever to the URL. It has some other features like converting all your messages to GIFs (memes alert!!), integrating with Slack and it can send you we…

Is there permanence to the chat rooms, or when all participants leave, does it self destruct?

Re: Show HN: Typr.club, realtime gif-based chat rooms

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Post by ruiramos » Wed, Aug 17, 2016, 3:08 PM UTC

andrewclunn wrote: post #3

ruiramos wrote: post #2

Hi everyone! I made typr.club as an experiment to build some kind of 'augmented' chat room, where people could transmit their presence, emotions, reactions... by attaching a short video to their text messages. It works with rooms, you can just create one by appending whatever to the URL. It has some other features like converting all your messages to GIFs (memes alert!!), integrating with Slack and it can send you we…

Is there permanence to the chat rooms, or when all participants leave, does it self destruct?

They expire after 2 weeks without any new messages

Re: Show HN: Typr.club, realtime gif-based chat rooms

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Post by ruiramos » Wed, Aug 17, 2016, 3:24 PM UTC

The public test room btw is https://typr.club/world

Re: Show HN: Typr.club, realtime gif-based chat rooms

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Post by al_james » Wed, Aug 17, 2016, 3:27 PM UTC

ruiramos wrote: post #2

Hi everyone! I made typr.club as an experiment to build some kind of 'augmented' chat room, where people could transmit their presence, emotions, reactions... by attaching a short video to their text messages. It works with rooms, you can just create one by appending whatever to the URL. It has some other features like converting all your messages to GIFs (memes alert!!), integrating with Slack and it can send you we…

Can you talk about the tech stack you are using to power this?

Re: Show HN: Typr.club, realtime gif-based chat rooms

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Post by ruiramos » Wed, Aug 17, 2016, 3:33 PM UTC

al_james wrote: post #6

ruiramos wrote: post #2

Hi everyone! I made typr.club as an experiment to build some kind of 'augmented' chat room, where people could transmit their presence, emotions, reactions... by attaching a short video to their text messages. It works with rooms, you can just create one by appending whatever to the URL. It has some other features like converting all your messages to GIFs (memes alert!!), integrating with Slack and it can send you we…

Can you talk about the tech stack you are using to power this?

Sure! :) The backend is basically just Redis and Amazon! (S3 for storing the files, a Lambda function to convert webm into mp4 and gif). Client side, it's using WebSockets, RecordRTC for the video capture and Service Workers for the push notification bit.