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

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

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Post by djhaskin987 »

hauxir wrote: 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.

Just what the doctor ordered, bless you sir.

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

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Post by vikramkr »

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!

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

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Post by robbrown451 »

This is cool, I'm especially interested in YouTube synching so I can share videos with my daughter when she is at her moms. Also so she can chat with her friends while school is canceled and they can watch stuff together. (hopefully being able to talk to each other too?)

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

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Post by pfranz »

robbrown451 wrote: post #26

This is cool, I'm especially interested in YouTube synching so I can share videos with my daughter when she is at her moms. Also so she can chat with her friends while school is canceled and they can watch stuff together. (hopefully being able to talk to each other too?)

I'm surprised I haven't seen this before (or if it's been around, it hasn't been more popular). In person you often show people videos and via podcasts I often hear people haphazardly trying to play videos simultaneously.

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

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Post by fastball »

mstade wrote: post #10

Looks 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?

What's wrong with a link and no password?

Seems like the rooms are meant to be fairly disposable, so any situation where you would normally "change the room password", you instead just change rooms.

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

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Post by jawns »

hauxir wrote: 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.

I would love to know the legal implications of running a service where people are able to stream copyrighted content to others, or to share subscription services like Netflix in violation of its TOS.
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