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Re: Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users

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Post by tmp_anon_22 »

amadeuspagel wrote: post #20
jorgesborges wrote: post #14

Cool idea. I spent a few minutes waiting for a match but no luck, so I’ll try again later. If this link was shared to say, Reddit or 4chan, would it be fair to say we wouldn’t pair with random HN users?

Of course I have no way to know who really is an HN user. But why would anyone who isn't use an app that's marketed as voicechat with random HN users? In the long term, I want to make it possible for everyone to have their own coffeehouse ... voicechat with random people from your favorite subreddit, readers of your favorite blog, etc..

Why would a user ever use a product in a way we didn't intend?

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Post by proactivesvcs »

paxys wrote: post #8

This is my nightmare

This comment is giving me such a laugh. Mine too. When I visited the site out of morbid curiosity I saw that all I had to do to realise my nightmare was to click. Click anywhere. Click anywhere to start.

I had to hurl my computer off the bridge into the river to ensure I didn't click anywhere to start.

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Post by krtwllndr »

amadeuspagel wrote: post #11
wbazant wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've not tried it because the site is down, but a requirement for paired users to have something in common - like being a hn reader - works really well for these things! Omegle's main chat is really spammy, but if you add "gardening" or whatever as a requested common topic, you're likely to get an actual conversation.

Try it again, it should work now.

no, still doesn't work for me though.

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Post by tomjakubowski »

jorgesborges wrote: post #14

Cool idea. I spent a few minutes waiting for a match but no luck, so I’ll try again later. If this link was shared to say, Reddit or 4chan, would it be fair to say we wouldn’t pair with random HN users?

It might be fun to use the referer (sic) to match users coming from the same site.

Re: Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users

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Post by openknot »

proactivesvcs wrote: post #23
paxys wrote: post #8

This is my nightmare

This comment is giving me such a laugh. Mine too. When I visited the site out of morbid curiosity I saw that all I had to do to realise my nightmare was to click. Click anywhere. Click anywhere to start. I had to hurl my computer off the bridge into the river to ensure I didn't click anywhere to start.

Even if you click, the text changes to say: "looking for a match ...

keep this tab open and your headphones on for a while ..."

There's no indicator for how long the queue is, so a match could happen at any time. The serif font, lack of sentence capitalization, and repeating stock photos of the espresso cup also create an emotional atmosphere reminiscent of the SCP Foundation and nosleep fictional horror stories involving the exploration of the internet.

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Post by adventured »

paxys wrote: post #8

This is my nightmare

I tried four of these chats.

The first just rambled about how much PHP sucks and how great Postgres is, for no apparent reason.

The second touted how amazing Kubernetes is, and then asked if I could help them configure it for their small project.

The third went on a long rant about how they could build Zoom as a weekend MVP.

The fourth tried to explain how we should run the entire world on SQLite.

Re: Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users

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Post by scubakid »

adventured wrote: post #28
paxys wrote: post #8

This is my nightmare

I tried four of these chats. The first just rambled about how much PHP sucks and how great Postgres is, for no apparent reason. The second touted how amazing Kubernetes is, and then asked if I could help them configure it for their small project. The third went on a long rant about how they could build Zoom as a weekend MVP. The fourth tried to explain how we should run the entire world on SQLite.

Impossible to distinguish if this is satire or reality.
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