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Has an open source clone of some wildly popular commercial service ever had substantial success?
Could you build this on top of Agora ? That would make it much nicer from an open-source perspective. It's one of the only services that can carry the backend audio scalably. The product side is far more interesting...than the carrier api. Not worth spending time over that. Other alternatives are Twilio, Daily.co, etc
And then you would be risking leaking your data to CCP. Not worth the risk. It will be bad PR for Clubhouse too once the media gets the smell of it.
Don't think anybody cares
Hi everyone, a few days ago @DoubleMalt, @mitschabaude and me did a one-day hackathon to see if we can get a minimal WebRTC based version of a Clubhouse-style "room" to work. Since then we added a TURN server, bug fixes ("can you hear me?") and a bit of ui polishing. It is still early (please don't be too harsh) but you should find Jam to be quite usable as it is right now. Jam runs in any modern browser, at least th…
I like the Ux, very simple and responsive. It would be great if users on the stage could share a file with everyone else.
...of course, we’re now describing a different product.
This is deliberately minimal so you cant do those things because they’re undesirable for this product.
Sure, those are useful things too... but surely not every thing needs to have every feature.
Have you used teams recently? Did you know it’s soon gonna have a “data” tab so you can live explore your data from PowerBI without every leaving teams?
Featuuuuuure creep is what turns nice things into visual studio: bloated monoliths that tick every possible feature box but slow down both at runtime and in terms of features over time.
Having a sharp, refined product problem with a limited feature set is really nice.
...but it’s open source of you wanna mod it yourself...
Imho tho, one super important thing that Jam needs is federation. The best thing about Clubhouse is the discoverability of other people public rooms and being able to dip in and out of random conversations. The combination of self-hosting, open-source, and federation would be a great alternative.
Re: growth - the crypto community has been jumping into Clubhouse but I think pushing this as the local + opensource alternative could help Jam see very quick adoption.
This is great! I've used Clubhouse over the past couple of weeks, and have been looking forward to seeing the opensource/self-hosted version. Imho tho, one super important thing that Jam needs is federation. The best thing about Clubhouse is the discoverability of other people public rooms and being able to dip in and out of random conversations. The combination of self-hosting, open-source, and federation would be a…
Thank you for bringing up federation.
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And then you would be risking leaking your data to CCP. Not worth the risk. It will be bad PR for Clubhouse too once the media gets the smell of it.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-02-11/clubhouse... Don't think anybody cares
And to be honest their documentation is very poor.
Hi everyone, a few days ago @DoubleMalt, @mitschabaude and me did a one-day hackathon to see if we can get a minimal WebRTC based version of a Clubhouse-style "room" to work. Since then we added a TURN server, bug fixes ("can you hear me?") and a bit of ui polishing. It is still early (please don't be too harsh) but you should find Jam to be quite usable as it is right now. Jam runs in any modern browser, at least th…
I like the Ux, very simple and responsive. It would be great if users on the stage could share a file with everyone else.
Has an open source clone of some wildly popular commercial service ever had substantial success?