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That could be interesting. What if, instead of faces on the cams, it was your desktops. :P Also, what's to stop them from just showing their junk like on Chatr

• cap10morgan 16y ago
  I'm thinking both would be useful. And/or faces and a good online collaborative code editor.
• cap10morgan 16y ago
  Haha, nothing to stop the junk except the "Next" button. Maybe some auto-rating based on time spent in a pairing session? Assumption being longer sessions mean useful work is getting done, but quick skips mean some doofus was showing his junk.
  • Skywing 16y ago
    I'm thinking something a little less random might serve this idea better. Perhaps more or less like a room, where you could see multiple people all at once. Could make public or private rooms. I'd also almost say don't even allow web cam, just strictly desktop streaming. But, I could also see how seeing faces could be helpful, too. Perhaps it could have Picture-in-Picture, and you could swap between your desktop or you face being big, and the other being small in the corner. Some tutorial videos do this - it has their desktop with their face in the bottom right. I just don't think much would get done if you were just on there finding people that may or may not have anything in common.
    • cap10morgan 16y ago
      Yeah, it wouldn't be totally random. You'd profile yourself for what you know already, and for each project you ask for a pair on, what you want help with. Then you rate people on how well they helped you. I think the face vs. desktop thing should be A/B tested. It could go either way.
• Khao 16y ago
  Make them sign up to use the service instead of being 100% anonymous. That would fix the problem since you could ban people. This way you could also have extra features like chat logs and the like.
• kingsidharth 16y ago
  "If Chatroulette used facebook connect, people would've kept their pants up" -Gary VaynerchukI guess that could solve it.
  • gabaix 16y ago
    I tend to think people enjoy Chatroulette because of anonymousness.