Show HN: Video conference and synchronized YouTube video to do fitness in groups

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Post by dulyanov » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 3:48 PM UTC

Show HN: Video conference and synchronized YouTube video to do fitness in groups
co-train.space

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Post by dulyanov » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 3:55 PM UTC

Hey HN,

We've built www.co-train.space to stay fit while staying home. You pick fitness video on Youtube, it plays synchronously for everybody in the group and you see your peers thanks to Jitsi Meet (Zoom-like software).

I am now exercising with my parents every morning and feel much more connected to them. Looking forward to hearing what you think!

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Post by weaponizedwords » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 4:18 PM UTC

dulyanov wrote: post #2

Hey HN, We've built www.co-train.space to stay fit while staying home. You pick fitness video on Youtube, it plays synchronously for everybody in the group and you see your peers thanks to Jitsi Meet (Zoom-like software). I am now exercising with my parents every morning and feel much more connected to them. Looking forward to hearing what you think!

Great Work! I love the clean layout and the focus on the user experience. I work in the fitness industry and think there is some great potential here. Especially in the personal trainer space. Keep it up! You are on to something here.

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Post by Zenst » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 4:21 PM UTC

What kind of issues did you have syncing with youtube videos and what kind of latency do you experience?

BTW Great initiative and certainly could use that tech for many avenues like remote classroom, any presentation with Q&A. Few others I suspect, but great start.

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Post by ghostbrainalpha » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 4:53 PM UTC

I bought a projector just to make my fitness videos life size on the wall. It sounds lame but it has helped my mental health.

Adding the video conference element is a really great idea. Now I just have to find the best place to mount a webcam.

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Post by m_a_g » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 4:59 PM UTC

dulyanov wrote: post #2

Hey HN, We've built www.co-train.space to stay fit while staying home. You pick fitness video on Youtube, it plays synchronously for everybody in the group and you see your peers thanks to Jitsi Meet (Zoom-like software). I am now exercising with my parents every morning and feel much more connected to them. Looking forward to hearing what you think!

First of all, it looks great, good job! My question is that why do you limit yourself with only fitness? For example, study sessions are a great example that can benefit from your product.

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Post by _curious_ » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 5:18 PM UTC

Really neat idea - I'm a fan anything that helps people improve their health habits whether individually or collectively!

Re: Show HN: Video conference and synchronized YouTube video to do fitness in groups

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Post by dulyanov » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 5:25 PM UTC

Zenst wrote: post #4

What kind of issues did you have syncing with youtube videos and what kind of latency do you experience? BTW Great initiative and certainly could use that tech for many avenues like remote classroom, any presentation with Q&A. Few others I suspect, but great start.

Technically syncing is easy, websocket + Youtube API. The biggest issue for UX though is that a user should click on the video at least once. Otherwise, Firefox will block sync commands.

The latency can be 3-5 seconds for the first sync, when the video is initialized and unbuffered. For the next syncs its < 1 second.

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Post by mistermann » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 5:26 PM UTC

m_a_g wrote: post #6

dulyanov wrote: post #2

Hey HN, We've built www.co-train.space to stay fit while staying home. You pick fitness video on Youtube, it plays synchronously for everybody in the group and you see your peers thanks to Jitsi Meet (Zoom-like software). I am now exercising with my parents every morning and feel much more connected to them. Looking forward to hearing what you think!

First of all, it looks great, good job! My question is that why do you limit yourself with only fitness? For example, study sessions are a great example that can benefit from your product.

First thing that came to my mind too! Last night I watched a YouTube video with a friend, and we did a manual 5,4,3,2,1 countdown to synch, and then text chatted via WhatsApp, video chat of one's choosing could also be used. But rolling it all into one is nice.

It would be nice to be able to do the same thing with a shared Plex server, but not sure if that would be as easy.

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Post by dulyanov » Thu, Apr 16, 2020, 5:28 PM UTC

m_a_g wrote: post #6

dulyanov wrote: post #2

Hey HN, We've built www.co-train.space to stay fit while staying home. You pick fitness video on Youtube, it plays synchronously for everybody in the group and you see your peers thanks to Jitsi Meet (Zoom-like software). I am now exercising with my parents every morning and feel much more connected to them. Looking forward to hearing what you think!

First of all, it looks great, good job! My question is that why do you limit yourself with only fitness? For example, study sessions are a great example that can benefit from your product.

Basically it was the use case for me personally. I had to spend 2 weeks on quarantine totally alone separated even from wife so we wanted to exercise together. But yeah, I think you are right, there are many potential use cases!