Show HN: Video Chat Game Night

#1

Post by jmsad » Wed, May 13, 2020, 6:34 PM UTC

Show HN: Video Chat Game Night
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Re: Show HN: Video Chat Game Night

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Post by jmsad » Wed, May 13, 2020, 6:43 PM UTC

As the name suggests, this web app is meant to help groups of friends play some common party games over Video Chat. Frontend is Angular 2, backend is Node. Servers run on Google Compute Engine. I'd like to move to a higher level PaaS, but I want to maintain a websocket connection with each client to minimize latency, so I like the control that I have using VMs directly.

Happy to answer any questions about the architecture or implementation. I'd also welcome help if you think this sounds fun to work on.

Re: Show HN: Video Chat Game Night

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Post by aaronedam » Thu, May 14, 2020, 9:42 AM UTC

jmsad wrote: post #2

As the name suggests, this web app is meant to help groups of friends play some common party games over Video Chat. Frontend is Angular 2, backend is Node. Servers run on Google Compute Engine. I'd like to move to a higher level PaaS, but I want to maintain a websocket connection with each client to minimize latency, so I like the control that I have using VMs directly. Happy to answer any questions about the archite…

This is great! I'm not a design person so everything looks awesome. What do you think about pricing of this service? I couldn't find any information about that.

I would like help backend if it is possible.

Re: Show HN: Video Chat Game Night

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Post by jmsad » Thu, May 14, 2020, 5:04 PM UTC

aaronedam wrote: post #3

jmsad wrote: post #2

As the name suggests, this web app is meant to help groups of friends play some common party games over Video Chat. Frontend is Angular 2, backend is Node. Servers run on Google Compute Engine. I'd like to move to a higher level PaaS, but I want to maintain a websocket connection with each client to minimize latency, so I like the control that I have using VMs directly. Happy to answer any questions about the archite…

This is great! I'm not a design person so everything looks awesome. What do you think about pricing of this service? I couldn't find any information about that. I would like help backend if it is possible.

Good question about pricing. Right now it's free; longer term I haven't decided yet. The three options that come to mind are donations, advertising, or freemium (i.e. free up to N players or other such limitations). Each has pros/cons.

Re: collaboration, shoot me an email and we can discuss - justin at vcgamenight.com.