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Please critique our little website

16 points by secos 17y ago

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secos 17y ago
We wrote this a while back as a test for another project. Would love feedback!
- idoh 17y ago
  What is this for / how will it help me?
  - secos 17y ago
    Was hoping you'd tell us! Obviously its a video chat program... question is exactly what good is it? Would love to hear your ideas. :)
    - idoh 17y ago
      Reviews are free, but I charge $ to be a product manager :)
      - secos 17y ago
        :) Well said. upvoted.
danfitch 17y ago
There is a test room that never expires(The rooms created expire after 20 minutes) if you want to chat with others from HN http://www.squarechat.com/hntest http://www.squarechat.com/hntest
alexl 17y ago
Doesn't work so well. I think the guy there wanted to tell me something, but I could only hear his words VERY slow. Like a magnetic audio tape played back at much less than the normal speed. Then again, who knows how far apart we were from each other, both geographically and from the point of view of the connection.
jeff18 17y ago
I couldn't get it to work in Mac OS X Snow Leopard with Chrome. I could see myself, but the other box was always either non existent or white.
- secos 17y ago
  the other boxes are other people who did not turn on their cameras or didn't have one.
  - jeff18 17y ago
    I'd consider the lack of that info a bug, unless you are expecting people to deduce that. ;)
jolie 17y ago
Needs a better explanation of what it is, what it does, and why anyone would use it - think of the end users. Also, for time-sensitive video chat, Twitter OAuth is where it's at.
- secos 17y ago
  why have any auth at all? Agree fully on the explanation... like I said it was a test for something else and we just threw it up on the server to see how it worked. Thanks for the feedback!
scotje 17y ago
Your Get Satisfaction widget brought up the feedback options for Get Satisfaction itself instead of for your app.
- danfitch 17y ago
  Thanks should be fixed now.
wildsalmon 17y ago
http://www.opinbot.com/reviews/show/agdvcGluYm90chwLEhVyZXZpZXdzX3Jldmlld3JlcXVlc3QYxT4M http://www.opinbot.com/reviews/show/agdvcGluYm90chwLEhVyZXZp...
- idoh 17y ago
  opinbot - that's a funny site. I can't tell if the review of people's twitter feeds is real or satire.
jasonkester 17y ago
Cool. So it's kinda like TokBox but without the suck. Gimme an API and a sense that you'll be around for a while and I'm in. Better still, give me the tools to set up my own server. And charge me money for it.
bmelton 17y ago
I don't know WHY it bothers me, but I should mention that it DOES -- the 'square' in the logo is rectangular, and my mind can't get over that. I'd rework the logo entirely if you could actually, and I don't know when the 'feedback on the left side of the page' became a popular phenomenon, or who started it, but I honestly find it to be extremely silly. That said, I like the overall look of the site, though it's obviously quite spartan at this point.
- danfitch 17y ago
  Haha, good point about the []. And also thank you for the input on the feedback link.
  - DTrejo 17y ago
    I really don't like get Satisfaction very much at all. I prefer email support any day.
lambdom 17y ago
I see a white square with nothing in it.
Madhav_ 17y ago
It lags a lot. That's really the only problem I see with it. A share link would be cool so it could be like tokbox.

16 points by secos 17y ago

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secos 17y ago

We wrote this a while back as a test for another project. Would love feedback!

idoh 17y ago
What is this for / how will it help me?
- secos 17y ago
  Was hoping you'd tell us! Obviously its a video chat program... question is exactly what good is it? Would love to hear your ideas. :)
  - idoh 17y ago
    Reviews are free, but I charge $ to be a product manager :)
    - secos 17y ago
      :) Well said. upvoted.

danfitch 17y ago

There is a test room that never expires(The rooms created expire after 20 minutes) if you want to chat with others from HN http://www.squarechat.com/hntest http://www.squarechat.com/hntest

alexl 17y ago

Doesn't work so well. I think the guy there wanted to tell me something, but I could only hear his words VERY slow. Like a magnetic audio tape played back at much less than the normal speed. Then again, who knows how far apart we were from each other, both geographically and from the point of view of the connection.

jeff18 17y ago

I couldn't get it to work in Mac OS X Snow Leopard with Chrome. I could see myself, but the other box was always either non existent or white.

secos 17y ago
the other boxes are other people who did not turn on their cameras or didn't have one.
- jeff18 17y ago
  I'd consider the lack of that info a bug, unless you are expecting people to deduce that. ;)

jolie 17y ago

Needs a better explanation of what it is, what it does, and why anyone would use it - think of the end users. Also, for time-sensitive video chat, Twitter OAuth is where it's at.

secos 17y ago
why have any auth at all? Agree fully on the explanation... like I said it was a test for something else and we just threw it up on the server to see how it worked. Thanks for the feedback!

scotje 17y ago

Your Get Satisfaction widget brought up the feedback options for Get Satisfaction itself instead of for your app.

danfitch 17y ago
Thanks should be fixed now.

wildsalmon 17y ago

http://www.opinbot.com/reviews/show/agdvcGluYm90chwLEhVyZXZpZXdzX3Jldmlld3JlcXVlc3QYxT4M http://www.opinbot.com/reviews/show/agdvcGluYm90chwLEhVyZXZp...

idoh 17y ago
opinbot - that's a funny site. I can't tell if the review of people's twitter feeds is real or satire.

jasonkester 17y ago

Cool. So it's kinda like TokBox but without the suck. Gimme an API and a sense that you'll be around for a while and I'm in. Better still, give me the tools to set up my own server. And charge me money for it.

bmelton 17y ago

I don't know WHY it bothers me, but I should mention that it DOES -- the 'square' in the logo is rectangular, and my mind can't get over that. I'd rework the logo entirely if you could actually, and I don't know when the 'feedback on the left side of the page' became a popular phenomenon, or who started it, but I honestly find it to be extremely silly. That said, I like the overall look of the site, though it's obviously quite spartan at this point.

danfitch 17y ago
Haha, good point about the []. And also thank you for the input on the feedback link.
- DTrejo 17y ago
  I really don't like get Satisfaction very much at all. I prefer email support any day.

lambdom 17y ago

I see a white square with nothing in it.

Madhav_ 17y ago

It lags a lot. That's really the only problem I see with it. A share link would be cool so it could be like tokbox.