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

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Post by aryehof »

I had an amazing conversation with someone random. It struck me how much more effective talking is than having a conversation through text. Got an instant match after turning off blocking of newly registered domains in my DNS filter.

A (relatively) narrow interest pool (like HN) makes talking with someone about common interests highly attractive. Qudos to the creator.

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Post by sph »

playcache wrote: post #52

I can just imagine how uncomfortable half the conversations will be.

I hate voice chats, just like I hate phone calls. I would feel much less awkward having a video chat with a stranger than just a voice call, though of course text is the best.

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

hardwaresofton wrote: post #90
karimf wrote: post #87

I haven't used this, but there was a submission recently for adding LoginWithHN functionality. Maybe this could be used to verify HN users. https://loginwithhn.com/

Appreciate the shout out! I just released self serve client app signup so everyone who’s making stuff for HN like this please check it out —- you should be able to build your OAuth2+OIDC login flow right away.

Thanks for introducing MVP.css[1] through your work Victor, Your design aided by MVP.css completely aligns with my design preferences and would be using it my next project to save some time.

[1] https://andybrewer.github.io/mvp/

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

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Post by hardwaresofton »

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #124
hardwaresofton wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Appreciate the shout out! I just released self serve client app signup so everyone who’s making stuff for HN like this please check it out —- you should be able to build your OAuth2+OIDC login flow right away.

Thanks for introducing MVP.css[1] through your work Victor, Your design aided by MVP.css completely aligns with my design preferences and would be using it my next project to save some time. [1] https://andybrewer.github.io/mvp/

Glad to! it's such an awesome CSS microframework. Love keeping track of good tools/libs like that.

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

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

hardwaresofton wrote: post #125
Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for introducing MVP.css[1] through your work Victor, Your design aided by MVP.css completely aligns with my design preferences and would be using it my next project to save some time. [1] https://andybrewer.github.io/mvp/

Glad to! it's such an awesome CSS microframework. Love keeping track of good tools/libs like that.

In that case, You might like my curated list of startup tools at StartupToolchain[1]; Just added MVP.css to it.

[1] https://startuptoolchain.com

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

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Post by gnicholas »

Lots of people mention having to wait a long time. Perhaps you could have a countdown timer for when people should check back (next session starting in 3 hours and 22 minutes!). You could also have a form so people could get an email reminder, or perhaps a browser notification.

Presumably this would help overcome the initial coordination problem, and over time as the user base grows it would be less and less necessary.

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Post by jaclaz »

skinnymuch wrote: post #98
adventured wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Hahaha. It took my brain until the 3rd example to realize this is a joke.

Sure, real rants are about building a much better Zoom as a weekend MVP.
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