> To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends. I would call it "CoVid: watch videos together, remotely."
Hope folks will use it after corona as well, so no corona pun name for it xD
Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends
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#32So my movie nights with friends used to involve watching a movie(on some streaming service or from disk), and then queuing up a bunch of random YouTube videos over Chromecast. It would be great if this wasn't tied to a single URL, but instead we could make a room and add videos to a queue to watch.
Awesome feature idea! This is currently the MVP and a lot more is to come. Will be added to my list.
The problem would be on how to start the next video, as it is a javascript redirect only, so I have no information when a video in the queue is finished. Maybe websockets and someone pressing "next" could be an option.
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#33This is very cool but I worry about your bandwidth bill if it takes off. Does voice chat go through the server?
I static cache all /p/* site via cloudflare and the voice chat is via jitsi meet an external privacy friendly service
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#34What if someone is on a device like a Fire TV?
Currently this can not be supported with the tech stack I use. (As it uses javascript redirects to start a video)
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#35this is not intuitive.
What do you dislike about the interface? How can I improve it?
Thanks for your help.
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#36Does this require everyone to have an account for the paid services (Netflix for now)? Does this require anyone to have an account for the paid services if you happen to be able to get your hands on a Netflix URL?
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#37Have you investigated what it'd take to addd Hulu support? I find majority of my shows are split between Netflix and Hulu.
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#38your title attribute says "Bing Together", you're missing an "e"
Thanks!
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#39You can do this in Second Life, although only for non-DRM video. There are movie theaters and big-screen TVs in the virtual world. You can watch with your friends, and talk or text to each other over the video.
That sounds interesting. How do you find the places?
Look for movie theaters. Or buy a virtual big-screen TV for your virtual house and invite friends over.
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#40I love this. I still speak fondly of the early days of netlfix, when it first got into streaming on the 360. You could invite an xbox live party to watch movies on Netflix. It had a border you could enable that made it look like a theatre screen with seats, with your live avatars sitting in them, a la Mystery Science Theatre.
There was nothing quite like being in a chat party watching movies together. You could talk as loudly as you wanted while doing/eating what you wanted. Blew the actual theatre out of the water.
Really amazing experience that was killed off way too soon (greed, Netflix didn't want non subscribers to watch free).
Hopefully this is a road back there, definitely going to spread this around and show some $love
edit: not finding a donation link, but if you get a link up I'm happy to do so!