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Facebook + ChatRoulette = FaceRoulette

39 points by mojaam 17y ago

It's like Chatroulette but only for people from Facebook. No fakers and dirty old men anymore! Give it a try and spread the word!

jacquesm 17y ago
facebook + chatroulette = instant firefox crash (at least on this box...)
FayDD 17y ago
Works pretty good here! I love the idea! No more naked men :D
- p858snake 17y ago
  Who says?
DaniFong 17y ago
Holy shit, someone just built this?! I just posted this as an idea I hoped someone would steal... -- Oh, I see via the whois records that it was not, in fact, registered today. Oh good, the world is not insane...
- iamdave 17y ago
  This was actually built by someone at Reddit
  - jmatt 17y ago
    So by proxy it's built by an HNer.
ZitchDog 17y ago
This could be hugely popular.
- helwr 17y ago
  too late
yosho 17y ago
The popup for facebook login is annoying and is caught by ad blockers
- awad 17y ago
  Which is odd since all the other fb connect logins I've ever encountered use a lightbox overlay type form.
  - naz 17y ago
    If you're logged into Facebook it shows a lightbox for FB Connect, otherwise it shows a popup.
DFootball 17y ago
The total anonymity of chatroulette and the shock value of seeing random cocks makes it much more risky and exciting. FaceRoulette is taking an awesome concept and making it too safe to be successful. Sorry, just calling it like I'm seeing it.
- dailo10 17y ago
  I wouldn't consider random cocks "risky and exciting". In fact, that totally turned me off from chat roulette. Getting rid of cocks makes this potentially more interesting and hopefully more successful.
  - milestinsley 17y ago
    Agreed. In fact, "getting rid of cocks" would go along way to making most things in life more interesting and successful!
- DaniFong 17y ago
  I'm sure that the makers of FaceRoulette are perfectly okay with competing in the 1% market niche of non-cock oriented videochat. The 99% cock oriented niche can be left to ChatRoulette; it is only fair, they are the first to think of it, and first to lose their pants.
polymath21 17y ago
I'm very interested in seeing if this takes off...
zitterbewegung 17y ago
Doesn't work for me...
kajecounterhack 17y ago
Seems like everyone on this is from news.yc.
dbz 17y ago
ChatRoulette is no fun, imho, because I don't want to see people jacking off or talk to random 70 year old men. (I tried it two days ago with a friend.) People who use ChatRoulette say "I'm used to seeing guys jack off." (not just my friend, everyone I have talked to says it) That's a phrase I never thought I'd hear- nor something I want to hear. I wonder what they will say about this site.
white_eskimo 17y ago
"The attempt to connect to the Adobe Stratus service timed out. We will wait for 10 more seconds the next time." then radio silence...
csomar 17y ago
By curiosity: What framework did he used? (I did he wrote with Flash from scratch or used a specific, flash framework)
dtran 17y ago
Interesting concept... doesn't have the crazy/high-novelty factor that chatroulette has, but using FBConnect opens a whole different set of possibilities - only connect to people with a certain shared interest, gender/age, or "Looking for" ;)

39 points by mojaam 17y ago

It's like Chatroulette but only for people from Facebook. No fakers and dirty old men anymore! Give it a try and spread the word!

jacquesm 17y ago

facebook + chatroulette = instant firefox crash (at least on this box...)

FayDD 17y ago

Works pretty good here! I love the idea! No more naked men :D

p858snake 17y ago
Who says?

DaniFong 17y ago

Holy shit, someone just built this?! I just posted this as an idea I hoped someone would steal... -- Oh, I see via the whois records that it was not, in fact, registered today. Oh good, the world is not insane...

iamdave 17y ago
This was actually built by someone at Reddit
- jmatt 17y ago
  So by proxy it's built by an HNer.

ZitchDog 17y ago

This could be hugely popular.

helwr 17y ago
too late

yosho 17y ago

The popup for facebook login is annoying and is caught by ad blockers

awad 17y ago
Which is odd since all the other fb connect logins I've ever encountered use a lightbox overlay type form.
- naz 17y ago
  If you're logged into Facebook it shows a lightbox for FB Connect, otherwise it shows a popup.

DFootball 17y ago

The total anonymity of chatroulette and the shock value of seeing random cocks makes it much more risky and exciting. FaceRoulette is taking an awesome concept and making it too safe to be successful. Sorry, just calling it like I'm seeing it.

dailo10 17y ago
I wouldn't consider random cocks "risky and exciting". In fact, that totally turned me off from chat roulette. Getting rid of cocks makes this potentially more interesting and hopefully more successful.
- milestinsley 17y ago
  Agreed. In fact, "getting rid of cocks" would go along way to making most things in life more interesting and successful!
DaniFong 17y ago
I'm sure that the makers of FaceRoulette are perfectly okay with competing in the 1% market niche of non-cock oriented videochat. The 99% cock oriented niche can be left to ChatRoulette; it is only fair, they are the first to think of it, and first to lose their pants.

polymath21 17y ago

I'm very interested in seeing if this takes off...

zitterbewegung 17y ago

Doesn't work for me...

kajecounterhack 17y ago

Seems like everyone on this is from news.yc.

dbz 17y ago

ChatRoulette is no fun, imho, because I don't want to see people jacking off or talk to random 70 year old men. (I tried it two days ago with a friend.) People who use ChatRoulette say "I'm used to seeing guys jack off." (not just my friend, everyone I have talked to says it) That's a phrase I never thought I'd hear- nor something I want to hear. I wonder what they will say about this site.

white_eskimo 17y ago

"The attempt to connect to the Adobe Stratus service timed out. We will wait for 10 more seconds the next time." then radio silence...

csomar 17y ago

By curiosity: What framework did he used? (I did he wrote with Flash from scratch or used a specific, flash framework)

dtran 17y ago

Interesting concept... doesn't have the crazy/high-novelty factor that chatroulette has, but using FBConnect opens a whole different set of possibilities - only connect to people with a certain shared interest, gender/age, or "Looking for" ;)