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Show HN: I made an app for large group video calls where people shuffle around
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#32Looks great - I'd also be interested in a chat app that lets users move their camera in a 2D space, even across "rooms", so you can form small social groups. I know you can do these things in 3D in things like Mozilla Hubs but 2D would work better for most users
This is exactly https://spatial.chat
Really wanted to try it out, but would have been nice if there was some demo or something before they asked for my email
Re: Show HN: I made an app for large group video calls where people shuffle around
#33This sounds like a cool idea.
My feedback would be: add a demo or something. Let me see what you're pitching before I go to the trouble of creating an account. Just a video of clicking around in the UI for a few minutes would do the trick.
Re: Show HN: I made an app for large group video calls where people shuffle around
#34Interesting! I built something really similar last month, though less polished: https://happyhour.ianwdavis.com/ In my case, I let people create groups ("tables") on the fly and hop between them at will, rather than forced mixing. There's a list along the side that shows which people are at each group. Groups with fewer people sort to the top, to encourage people to join those. I built on top of Jitsi and the meet.ji…
Really nice. Also thanks for open source this. I'm in a student club and we have our own Jitsi instance so we will probably run it on our own infrastructure. Do you have any plans for a "random" feature? If not would you be open for pull requests?
Hadn't planned on the random feature, but totally open to pull requests!
Re: Show HN: I made an app for large group video calls where people shuffle around
#35How to create a social networking event remotely for a happy hour or business networking event or party is an interesting unsolved problem. Here are a few other early protypes from teams working on it. Both of these have a UI where you walk around a 2d space and can communicate with groups nearby:
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#36Hello again, HN! I'm Andrew and I recently built and released Mixaba – it’s a new way to mix and mingle with people you already know online. Since the shelter-in-place orders started rolling out in the US I've had the opportunity to attend remote happy hours and larger remote social events. During those video calls I found that oftentimes the conversation felt a little out of cadence or stilted because there would be…
How do you fund this? I got semi-far with some friends on building a project similar to this, however, we stopped halfway through because we realized that video hosting quickly becomes quite expensive; without a monetization plan, there'd be no way we could stay afloat. Looks great!
Not OP, but video nerd. I haven't actually used the product yet, but my guess is they're using WebRTC, which can be run (almost) completely as a peer-to-peer mesh network for small enough groups.
Where video can start getting really expensive is, as you said, when you're centrally hosting/processing/streaming large amounts of it. For this use-case there's a good chance they don't end up touching the video streams themselves at all, which is really cool.
Re: Show HN: I made an app for large group video calls where people shuffle around
#37This sounds like a cool idea. My feedback would be: add a demo or something. Let me see what you're pitching before I go to the trouble of creating an account. Just a video of clicking around in the UI for a few minutes would do the trick.
That’s definitely a common request today — I’ll get that done!
Re: Show HN: I made an app for large group video calls where people shuffle around
#38Hello again, HN! I'm Andrew and I recently built and released Mixaba – it’s a new way to mix and mingle with people you already know online. Since the shelter-in-place orders started rolling out in the US I've had the opportunity to attend remote happy hours and larger remote social events. During those video calls I found that oftentimes the conversation felt a little out of cadence or stilted because there would be…
How do you fund this? I got semi-far with some friends on building a project similar to this, however, we stopped halfway through because we realized that video hosting quickly becomes quite expensive; without a monetization plan, there'd be no way we could stay afloat. Looks great!
@mmcclure is right. This uses WebRTC and is currently in peer mode. As soon as I start allowing more than 4 people per room that might cause some performance issues, I’ll need to monitor that. As it stands now there is a hard cost, but it isn’t prohibitive yet.
Re: Show HN: I made an app for large group video calls where people shuffle around
#39My own take on it: https://zonko.chat
My thinking is that you should be able to control where you go and which group you stand in.
Re: Show HN: I made an app for large group video calls where people shuffle around
#40Feature suggestion!
Allow two participant types, with separate links to join the same event, and then add the ability to (best effort) match type 1s with type 2s.
So you could use it for (straight) dating, where the types are male and female, or mentoring/office hours where the types are mentor or mentee, or investor or investee, or like “meet an American” where the type a is American and type b is not, etc, etc, etc..
I also assume it tracks who has already been with who and doesn’t match them up again as long as there are other new people left?