One-click video conversations without registration on iPhone

#1

Post by dagingaa » Wed, Jun 04, 2014, 8:22 AM UTC

One-click video conversations without registration on iPhone
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Re: One-click video conversations without registration on iPhone

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Post by bruun » Wed, Jun 04, 2014, 8:39 AM UTC

For those interested, this was realized using the open-source Objective-C library from the WebRTC project. https://code.google.com/p/webrtc/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk%...

Re: One-click video conversations without registration on iPhone

#3

Post by dang » Wed, Jun 04, 2014, 9:23 AM UTC

This post set off HN's voting ring detector, but we turned that off because we want to see original work on HN.

Please don't ring-vote posts (i.e. solicit upvotes). Besides setting off the ring detector, doing so will eventually get your account penalized.

Re: One-click video conversations without registration on iPhone

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Post by macNchz » Wed, Jun 04, 2014, 9:56 AM UTC

This is great! I've really enjoyed using the appear.in web client...I do like the zero configuration aspect, but more importantly it performs dramatically better than Skype or Google Hangouts, in terms of both CPU usage and video quality over a busy connection.

I've had many days where Hangouts was essentially unusable...stuttering, pixelated, and glitchy, but switching to an appear.in room worked nearly flawlessly, even with a group of several people. Looking forward to being able to use it on mobile!

Re: One-click video conversations without registration on iPhone

#5

Post by eps » Wed, Jun 04, 2014, 10:30 AM UTC

Looks very tempting, but how do you make money?

Re: One-click video conversations without registration on iPhone

#6

Post by rahimnathwani » Wed, Jun 04, 2014, 10:45 AM UTC

This is awesome. You should update the FAQ page:

"Currently iOS does not offer support in browsers for services like appear.in. We are working on exploring how we can make appear.in available for iOS. To be the first to be notified when it is available, you can sign up here (http://eepurl.com/N8Bez)."

Re: One-click video conversations without registration on iPhone

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Post by bruun » Wed, Jun 04, 2014, 10:47 AM UTC

rahimnathwani wrote: post #6

This is awesome. You should update the FAQ page: "Currently iOS does not offer support in browsers for services like appear.in. We are working on exploring how we can make appear.in available for iOS. To be the first to be notified when it is available, you can sign up here ( http://eepurl.com/N8Bez )."

Well spotted, thanks :-)

Re: One-click video conversations without registration on iPhone

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Post by tbassetto » Wed, Jun 04, 2014, 10:54 AM UTC

eps wrote: post #5

Looks very tempting, but how do you make money?

For now, I guess it's just surviving by being a subsidiary of the giant Telenor Group.

Re: One-click video conversations without registration on iPhone

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Post by kirkus » Wed, Jun 04, 2014, 11:18 AM UTC

looks interesting...how are you storing user information?

Re: One-click video conversations without registration on iPhone

#10

Post by plg » Wed, Jun 04, 2014, 11:26 AM UTC

how many people can join a video chat room at once?