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Interesting idea. Since this is a bit less anonymous than Chatroulette, I'd imagine that there'll be less nudity and other shock imagery. Although, I'm sure the
by mrduncan 17y ago
Interesting idea. Since this is a bit less anonymous than Chatroulette, I'd imagine that there'll be less nudity and other shock imagery. Although, I'm sure there will definitely still be some.
I'm curious if any dating sites have tried (or succeeded) doing something like this. Seems like it might work - kind of an "online" bar atmosphere where you're free to wander around meeting new people face to face.
- eraad 17y agoThis may be the new trend on speed dating 2.0. It would be cool if you could choose the ambient where you want to hang out: Facebook, Twitter, BeautifulPeople, etc.
- necrecious 17y agoMaking a white label random video chat service is probably viable as a business. I have no idea how Chatroulette can afford the bandwidth.
- icey 17y agoAccording to that interview that was posted here with the kid who runs it; he covers all costs with a few ads on the page. No idea how, but I guess that it works for him.
- slig 17y agoThey're using a new feature in flash 10: p2p. Check the comments on the other news.yc thread about chatroulette.
- dschobel 17y agothe video streams are all client to client, all chatroulette handles is the session initiation.
- jmonegro 17y agoI'm working on an open source Ruby implementation using the TokBox api.
- jmonegro 17y agoI'm working on an open source Ruby implementation using the TokBox api.