also, check out their tutorial about embedding a chat room in your app. http://appearin.github.io/tutorial.html
pretty cool!
Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs
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#72How is this app different from the WebRTC demo available at https://apprtc.appspot.com since a long time?
None of them are. There are a gazillion of these on the web. They are just webrtc demo + other things like "oh look you can also chat" or "oh your room has a nice name". And so on. Now not to say that it is bad thing. It is great. It is what Google wanted (well they want people to use the web more and use Microsoft and iOS only products less). So you as a developer know that underneath the wiring is really simple and…
How much time do you think it took them to make this whole thing along with their website?
I would say as much time as they spent making a clean website for their product.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
None of them are. There are a gazillion of these on the web. They are just webrtc demo + other things like "oh look you can also chat" or "oh your room has a nice name". And so on. Now not to say that it is bad thing. It is great. It is what Google wanted (well they want people to use the web more and use Microsoft and iOS only products less). So you as a developer know that underneath the wiring is really simple and…
How much time do you think it took them to make this whole thing along with their website? I would say as much time as they spent making a clean website for their product.
It's true that the basic concept of appear.in is pretty similar to a lot of other WebRTC prototypes made (like the ones you mention). However we are trying to turn appear.in into a commercial product that will be continually improved and adapted to users' needs (that will likely change over time). It is very easy to get a working prototype up and running (appear.in started as a summer project, and three interns made the first working prototype in two weeks: http://comoyo.github.io/blog/2013/08/05/video-meetings-in-th...), but getting it to work smoothly in all kinds of situations, on all kinds of networks and handling bugs (which occur frequently) is another story. Not to mention keeping the product up to date and making use of all the improvements that are made in the different browsers.
We think that widespread adoption of a service like this will only be achieved if the service "just works" and is adapted to users' needs through constant development, and also through building a living brand that people love. We are currently a team of 8 working full-time on this, not only programming, but also with marketing, design & user testing.
Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs
#74>"We need access to your camera and microphone to get started. >"No, I'm in my underwear. Please take me back." // Lol, nice tone. Dialog to enable webcam didn't appear for me though. Kubuntu 13.10, FF 26.0
There is a known bug with Firefox 26 on Ubuntu 13.10 (and apparently other, similar Linux setups). Track progress here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=750011
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#75Re: Video conversations with up to 8 people for free. No login, no installs
#76We got an email asking us to change the URL from https://appear.in/ to https://whereby.com/, so we've done so.