the app is a 3rd party voice chat with a URL link and a countdown, I'm surprised it's so popular tbh
Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends
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(also shilling) Another similar site (that a friend of mine built) is TeamFlix. He built it to stream with his brother and didn't find any alternatives (this was a few years ago now). https://teamflix.com/
I am not shilling, I found the site just yesterday after much effort in searching and I am usually pretty good at searching. Learning it was basically a family effort: my brother and I have been online since 1993 and he has a librarian degree and I am a software developer / hacker and this combo has led to much expertise. My brother is better -- he can search in languages he can't read or write. It's like a magic tri…
> he can search in languages he can't read or write. It's like a magic trick.
Have you ever tried to suss out how he is able conduct web searches so effectively? Would be interested in what you learned.
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Yes, I actually helped make a clone of it for my final college project. Since then the cocnept has sort of died. I'm a little surprised it's not something that Spotify did more with. I know they have a colistening feature but I have yet to have anyone want to attempt that. As far as I can tell you need to link up by Facebook to even attempt that.
You can colisten to somebody's Spotify through Discord. Sadly it's a pretty obscure feature no one uses much, but it's worked well the couple of times I've tried it.
I've used it some back when it was first introduced. Some people were just not ever able to sync with the stream sometimes, and also it was a bummer asking everyone to sign up for Spotify Premium to be able to listen. I don't know if it's better now but I personally would not recommend it to others.
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#194I personally don’t like people talking when watching a movie or a TV show. It’s fine if they exclaim or laugh or gasp depending on the situation (and not being too loud), but anything that’s some kind of speech or commentary makes me lose bits of what I’m watching and want to focus on. With streaming video, I can pause, rewind and then continue. But in this case, that would no longer be in sync with where the others…
It would be fun for stupid stuff though that doesn't really matter- you and your friends could chat and make fun of it MST3k style.
Some friends and I have started doing this with terrible movies, straight-to-DVD Steven Seagal/Nicolas Cage style stuff. Problem is we're all starting the movie at very slightly different times, like within 15 seconds but still sometimes hard to guess what people are referencing.
Oh, and we don't use voice chat, it's just Whatsapp. I personally wouldn't feel comfortable piping up in a group of ten or twelve, some of whom I haven't met, I much prefer typing a joke, and am a fast enough typist that I'm not too much behind the action I'm writing about.
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It's a corporate video sharing service in Office 365. Think Youtube for your company.
If you would be able to share a login with me, than I could check if it can be included. Login could be send to office365bingewatching@simon-frey.com
It's my personal work email and has company videos on it.
So I'm not able to share, sorry.
What information would you need for it? nico@sapico.me
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#196I couldn't get it to work. When I click "Join movie party" it just opens another tab of the party page with a timestamp in the url.
Also there appears to be a timezone issue? I have to input a time an hour ahead of what I actually want.
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Almost as perfect as it is morbid.
Right now I see a lot of folks making light of Covid-19 by coming up with silly pun-based names for sites, groups, etc. and I totally understand why: Many of us (especially in tech, where layoffs have been less bad than other sectors) currently associate this event with staying indoors, being kinda bored, trying to find things to do to pass the time. People are intellectual aware that there’s a deadly virus out there…
I’m honesty quite fed up with how people are treating this like a fun vacation. I’m a wedding photographer. This is going to ruin me financially, the same year we were planning on doing IVF after trying for a baby for over two years.
In addition, my father is in his late 60s, has lupus, and recently finished cancer treatment. My mom has an “essential” job so there’s a risk of transmission from her.
In short, everyone please be aware of how this is affecting people. Don’t complain if you’re still getting your paycheck. It’s fine to make jokes, but for god’s sake if someone is talking to you about how it’s going to make life hard for them don’t say “yeah, it’s going to be hard on everyone.”
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As written ion the page, it would be able to support any website on the internet, as it does a simple redirect to the website on countdown 0. What I want to provide is an auto start and a jump to timecode 0. All platforms that allow that via query parameters can be supported by binge together :D
I think there could be latency because of the buffering. A solution could be to stop the movie for everyone, get the timecode. Send everyone the new timecode and start the movie from there after the countdown. (heck, this could even be a sync/break feature. If someone’s internet connection gets disrupted everyone can stop and sync. Or if they want a movie break, they can do it like this.)
Metastream already does this and it has to manually support a few hundred sites and the experience is truly awful. There are some sites where you have to manually enable autoplay but you know what? Most people will forget to do that. So now your little movie night is a major tech support waste of time. The need to constantly ask "are you synced?" Gets old pretty fast. Screen sharing is the way to go in my opinion but most capture programs capture the audio of the entire desktop. I have already created my own solutions for these problems.
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#200I'm still wondering how people manage to get bored in today's age. You have millions of journals, books, music tracks, tv shows, films and video games. You have tutorials on youtube to learn new skill, such as cooking, yoga, DIY, coding, etc. You can chat, phone or email to all your relatives and friends. You can take the opportunity to produce something, write, build, create, imagine. Even without a computer you can…
People were busy with other things than youtube or TVs. If you suddenly destroy their routine they will have to discover the internet for the first time.