Show HN: I made a chat roulette for remote workers
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Show HN: I made a chat roulette for remote workers
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Re: Show HN: I made a chat roulette for remote workers
#2I thought I'd put something together for people working from home.
I've been working remotely since July and honestly, the lack of social contact gets old fast.
Re: Show HN: I made a chat roulette for remote workers
#3Love how this might create a positive spin in light of all the pessimism in these trying times.
You're awesome Pete!
Re: Show HN: I made a chat roulette for remote workers
#4I thought I'd put something together for people working from home. I've been working remotely since July and honestly, the lack of social contact gets old fast.
By that do you mean you dislike the lack of social contact? I started a remote role in November and I'm just starting to appreciate how much I miss spending my day in the company of others.
Re: Show HN: I made a chat roulette for remote workers
#5How many people have signed up so far?
Honestly, just having a Zoom call going for the entire day, with different breakout rooms and multi-person screenshare, would go a long way towards companionship. You don't even need your own platform! $15 / mo. for 100 people for a 24 hour long session :D
If it's something like that, and you have DevOps and Full-stack people signed up, and we can switch breakout rooms by host request, I think I'd sign up!
Re: Show HN: I made a chat roulette for remote workers
#6Our team ended up creating a Discord voice channel that we can each chime in on as needed. It gives us a "ambient chat" as one of my colleges put it and helps simulate working in the same environment.
Re: Show HN: I made a chat roulette for remote workers
#7This thread has so much optimism considering what chatroulette is/was/became.
Re: Show HN: I made a chat roulette for remote workers
#8I thought I'd put something together for people working from home. I've been working remotely since July and honestly, the lack of social contact gets old fast.
Working remotely for almost 4 years here. Whenever I join a call with co-workers to "hang out" there's no work being done. If someone is there I will speak to them or I'll want to hear what they're saying. And if we're just quiet, my work just becomes the same as if I weren't on the call except I can't have Spotify on.
I think there could be a demographic for this tool, but I'd wager not a lot of work will be done while connected to it.
Re: Show HN: I made a chat roulette for remote workers
#9Should probably make it free to use to get a faster test on your assumptions. It is a very novel assumption that people will actually use this as intended and return everyday.
I see more revenue opportunity for advertising, partnerships, and affiliate relationships than a flat membership fee.
You can have a premiere membership that has special features like improved vetting and ability to refine matching specifications, after a person ends up liking it, and it’s usage becomes routine. You should give users the opportunity to try, because again, its a novel assumption.
For the free tier, the 728X90 leaderboard above the chat screen would be highly valuable real estate.
Re: Show HN: I made a chat roulette for remote workers
#10A few thoughts:
1. This is a really neat idea. I love the creativity.
2. But for $5 you're not giving me a whole lot more than what I can get for myself on Reddit, HN, Social Media. What do I get exactly that I can't get by just asking on social media?
3. Call me wrong, I'm not actually sure how I feel on this. But it kind of slightly maybe smells like profiteering. Do you really need $5 per person? Does the price really need to go up if I don't act fast? (I'm anxious enough, thank you) Maybe make it free and ask for server donations?
4. The two bios on the front page feel so fakey fake fake that it turns me right off the service. Maybe that's just me.
5. I really _do not_ want to discourage you. I really hope this feedback is constructive enough.