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Re: Eyechat

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Post by namanyayg »

eieio wrote: post #76
namanyayg wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd love to know more. Did he reach out to you? Was it the other way around? What's the difference in two's codebases, if any?

we meet up on occasion to kick around ideas[1] - we're both in nyc and the 'people doing creative tech stuff in nyc' world is not that big. I think(?) we first met right after I made stranger video; we've batted around ideas about it for a while. Pretty sure this idea was from him! There's probably 0 overlap in the codebase - 100% (or close to it) of the code is from Neal (the only code I wrote for this was a very ea…

Always lovely to know how these things work in the background.

I love it when the web is used for something fun and not selling another subscription service.

Sent you an email btw, I had some thoughts that I wanted to talk about

Re: Eyechat

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Post by muppetman »

yesbut wrote: post #6

You all are comfortable just enabling your camera for some random site so it can capture your face?

Sure am. This site is a lot more trustworthy than the no doubt 100 cameras I walk past each day that capture my face without my permission.

Re: Eyechat

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Post by bemmu »

omoikane wrote: post #59
ianbicking wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But there's no attempt to monetize anything... ... which is part of why everything seems so polished, they each express an idea without compromise, and when he's done he can just be done. Someone could make a pretty good museum exhibit from his site.

> But there's no attempt to monetize anything... Maybe for the pages you tried, but I see ads on these pages: https://neal.fun/infinite-craft/ (bottom) https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/ (right) https://neal.fun/days-since-incident/ (bottom, near the end, above the "you may also like" section) The last one occasionally fails to show ads due to some javascript error (visible in the console). The same error was also obse…

It’s my understanding that Infinite Craft alone is probably so popular that those ads actually bring in decent revenue.

For comparison, at one point slither.io, which is another browser game (not his project) was bringing in $100k/day from one ad unit showed each time the player dies https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-slither-io-goes-viral-games-...

Re: Eyechat

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Post by BHSPitMonkey »

It's the eyebrow-inclination detection that really makes this a work of art. Being able to turn a serious stare into a serious aspect ratio is power I didn't know I needed.

Re: Eyechat

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Post by gloosx »

latexr wrote: post #34
lambdaba wrote: post #13

Careful doing this as there's a risk of falling in love, as per this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/style/modern-love-to-fall...

https://archive.ph/20240808081029/https://www.nytimes.com/20...

thank you sire, I banished the authwall iframe, removed the gradient and made it scrollable only to realize the article was cut for public in the first place. I wonder how archive.ph got the full version automatically...

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Post by sam_perez »

hazn wrote: post #28

after eyechatting with 5 people: * all people had brown eyes * all went for funny looks immediately * 3 of them were shocked and left

Clicking on the link without knowing what it was ahead of time was jarring, even not actively participating.

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Post by manmal »

sam_perez wrote: post #88
hazn wrote: post #28

after eyechatting with 5 people: * all people had brown eyes * all went for funny looks immediately * 3 of them were shocked and left

Clicking on the link without knowing what it was ahead of time was jarring, even not actively participating.

Not for me, at all. Do you generally avoid eye contact?
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