Show HN: Chat with HN users while you visit HN
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#2This is actually tremendously fascinating, and has a lot of potential. It is one of the coolest things I've ever seen on HN. 10 other HN users are on it now. (Tried nytimes.com, I was the only one.)
What I'd really love to see would be a chat history, so I know what was going on "in the room" before I joined.
To make it really effective, there could be some kind of threading, forum subjects, voting, etc. It would be amazing to check out a NYT article, have this pop up, and then immediately see people giving more context, making clever comments, etc.
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#3I remember a very similar startup that was doing more or less the same thing which has been a very popular in HN and some other websites, I just could not recall the name. Anyone remembers?
edit: It could be envo.lv http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2756145
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#4This has been tried a few times on HN before, can't find the links though.
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#5I remember a very similar startup that was doing more or less the same thing which has been a very popular in HN and some other websites, I just could not recall the name. Anyone remembers? edit: It could be envo.lv http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2756145
This kind of thing is a classic chicken-and-egg problem. To actually have one take off, I wonder if there's some way to link it to Facebook, to make it viral?
Make it a Facebook app as well that interacts with comments you've left on pages you like? Or post your chat comments to Facebook? I don't know what it is, but I would love to see it happen.
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#6chat history would be good.. my chat stopped dead.. would like to go back and review what's said.
Bookmarklet can display how many people online and color-coded for activity level.
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#7What I've always wanted is HN with a chatroom attached to each submission instead of a comments page. That would be fun.
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#8Feedback: don't allow usernames "root", "admin", "administrator", et cetera.
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#9I remember a very similar startup that was doing more or less the same thing which has been a very popular in HN and some other websites, I just could not recall the name. Anyone remembers? edit: It could be envo.lv http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2756145
This kind of thing is a classic chicken-and-egg problem. To actually have one take off, I wonder if there's some way to link it to Facebook, to make it viral? Make it a Facebook app as well that interacts with comments you've left on pages you like? Or post your chat comments to Facebook? I don't know what it is, but I would love to see it happen.
nah i think it's way better as it is, anonymous. no barrier to entry, no privacy issues, plain old interwebs bliss
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#10I like this idea, but here's a word of warning: ICQ actually had software that did this about a hundred years ago. It was a stand alone app you would download, and you could chat with people viewing whatever webpage you were on. And I remember running into another person exactly once on this service, and that was while visiting altavista.com (this was before google). And this was from a company that presumably had a pretty strong ability to push software out to users. This can end up being the kind of software thats useless unless its used by millions. I'm sure there are smart ways to overcome that problem though.