Show HN: Kosmi – Hang out with friends and family online
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#2Been 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.
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#3This platform has been developing beautifully. Everything works smoothly and if we have any suggestions hauxir listens and implements them very fast. I'm loyal to this platform, I've tried many and this is surely the best.
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#4I noticed your contact is in a discord channel and my first thought was how this is differentiated from discord. If people are actually contacting you on discord and this is "installation free", why not make that contact via your own service?
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#5Been 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.
You released it at th3 right time.
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#6I noticed your contact is in a discord channel and my first thought was how this is differentiated from discord. If people are actually contacting you on discord and this is "installation free", why not make that contact via your own service?
Good point. the only reason i list discord as a contact is because my platform doesn't offer private messages yet.
For anything that doesn't need to be private you can simply ask around on the public chat on the platform :)
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#7Love this! Especially the fact that you can launch an OpenArena server so easily! Played a lot of Quake 3 Arena during my college days. Hadn't heard of OpenArena before. Thanks!
EDIT: Is there a way to store and load a config file? Or have the binds stored permanently?
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#8Love this! Especially the fact that you can launch an OpenArena server so easily! Played a lot of Quake 3 Arena during my college days. Hadn't heard of OpenArena before. Thanks! EDIT: Is there a way to store and load a config file? Or have the binds stored permanently?
Thank you!
Unfortunately the config file is not export/importable right now but I might add support for that later!
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#9I was surprised that even public rooms require a request to join from the lobby page. Though I also know that direct room links do let you in to the channel which is what you'd be passing around to your friends.
And I was also surprised that when someone sends me a join request, it completely blots my screen out with a modal. Seems like this would be very annoying if you were actually running a channel. I think that needs some attention. For example, am I ruining someone's experience by constantly sending them join requests?
Online hangout was always a dream of mine ever since my friends and I used socks to tie the home phone around our heads so we could talk while playing Unreal Tournament online together. Always cool to see people trying to work on this.
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#10Looks slick, seems to work real well on mobile too. Good work!
I noticed when creating a private room there's no auth, would it be possible to have something simple even like a shared password so you need something more than just the link to join? Also would it be possible to make it request audio and/or video access by default when joining, rather than making it a user action?