> To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends. I would call it "CoVid: watch videos together, remotely."
No doubts that with such a name this service will go viral
PS sorry, I couldn't resist
Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends
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Re: Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends
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Still greed if you ask me, how would it be different from me renting a movie at home and having friends over? I dread the day when we have forced ocular/ear implants that allow for the blocking of anything we dont have a license for. Nonetheless I get your point, I just believe it's sad that for all the innovation a free market touts, all I remember are the cool/amazing/interesting things they took from us by stiflin…
Technically, when you rent a movie, you are not allowed to invite friends over to watch it with you. By renting the title, you were granted a temporary private viewing license. Inviting people over constituted a public viewing. Copyright laws are ludicrous.
As far as i know (form my college days in mid-2000s), we had this issue for setting up movie nights. Some people claimed that rented videos had an agreed-upon audience of (i think) 8 people. So to accommodate, let's say 100 people, we had to rent about 12 of the same videos.
Of course, we were in college and laughed and said screw it and just rented the one DVD.
But I never went back to check up on this.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are plenty of Hitler jokes out there, and a ton of hurricane jokes for every hurricane that blows through the US. Cancer patients are sometimes sardonic about their condition. I really don't think a death toll of 100,000 is enough to stop people from using gallows humor to cope. In fact, the higher the death toll, the more gallows humor you are likely to see. Further evidence: Coronavirus jokes have not become…
While that's true, very few successful products are Hitler puns.
Sounds like an assassin sharing service or tool to promote your pop tune.
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>it doesn't actually sync across the viewers? (start time, play/pause) What is even the point then? It's litearlly the only feature I expect from such service.
From the description on homepage: > Wait until the countdown hits zero and your movie night starts So it does sync across viewers (I haven't actually tried it yet).
It syncs the start time. As it works without a browser extension I can not sync the actual movie as I do not get the information.
What I am planing to do is to allow a later join into the movie night by calculating how much time has passed since the movie night start and then send the late attendee to that time code in the movie. Not supported by all services tough :/
Re: Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends
#135similar to netflixparty.com except: - it also supports prime/youtube/vimeo - it has an audio/video chat instead of a simple text chat - it doesn't require a chrome extension - it doesn't actually sync across the viewers? (start time, play/pause) does it mean you can literally support other platforms without any integration?
As written ion the page, it would be able to support any website on the internet, as it does a simple redirect to the website on countdown 0.
What I want to provide is an auto start and a jump to timecode 0. All platforms that allow that via query parameters can be supported by binge together :D
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#136Feedback: I'd like a button that advances the 'start time' to "ASAP" -- I realize you're probably doing some NTP-like time syncing between clients, and "just start right now" maybe won't have everybody synced already, but if all my friends are already in the voice chat / already on the link, there's no need to wait for the appointed time. edit : alternatively since the URLs are hard to guess, you could have the creat…
Awesome! I love the "start after X people joined" idea.
What you are currently seeing is the MVP. I plan to integrate websockets for the communication between clients. So you just can hit "start now" and it would start (or after X people joined the websocket channel). This will take some time, as it is a lot harded to get scalable as the current (static solution is.
Yes, the youtube ads will be a problem that sadly can not be circumvented with my tech stack.
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#137There are a lot of these. A way to stand out would be to make it work with all the streaming gadgets like an Apple TV, roku stick or fire stick. Would be a killer app right now. Who watches a movie sitting at their computer?
Would love that as well, but it is really hard to support even only chromecast with my tech stack.
For now I do not plan to support TV applications with Binge Together.
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#138It is not clear to me if everybody in the party needs to have netflix. (or whatever service was chosen)
Yes. Everyone needs to have an account and to be signed in.
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#139What did you use to build it?
From other comment: Stack is quite simple: Frontend: Bulma.css, Vanilla Javascript, HTML Backend: PHP, MariaDB
It works by redirecting in the right moment to the streaming sites, via a JavaScript redirect.
The voice chat is done via https://meet.jit.si/
To handle potential big load, I force cloudflare to cache all sites under url /p/* thereby after the creation of the watch party, no request hits my server anymore :D
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#140https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18123862 is great. Really, really great. No idea why it's not more widely recognized or used.
Also Togethr.TV ( https://togethr.tv ). Created by me some years ago! People can watch videos together and chat (text/audio) and some other features.
The one about works with local files. For my purposes it's much better than YouTube.