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Yap: An ephemeral, Real-Time chat room with up to six participants
- techntoke 7y agoCool design, but the idea of messages disappearing after they're typed makes it practically pointless for general use. There would be a lot of other ways to accomplish similar functionality of keeping the most recently typed messages active, without removing them completely.
- Covzire 7y agoIt seems really fascinating to me, all about being in the moment like conversations face to face.
- DJBunnies 7y agoIt wont be though. People can record them. Might as well make it a feature.
- JauntyHatAngle 7y agoSure, but you can record face to face conversations too. But to do so requires more effort, and would only be done if you had a particular need for it. The original intent and design still would apply to the vast majority of interactions on the chat room.
- irjustin 7y agoWhile I agree it's practically pointless for general use - that's basically the point, and I love the take they've chosen on it. I definitely won't use it, but as a creative project and social experiment - I love it. I feel like this is something Reddit would try to do as part of their April fool's experiments.
- noobermin 7y agoNot quite a copyright concern but wouldn't this get confused with the island[0]? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yap
- webpaymentsguy 7y agoHonestly, they should embrace it. Change the Yap logo to the outline of the island. Turn an abysmal oversight into a piece of marketing lore.
- lainga 7y agoNot a chance, if Alphabet can call a molten salt power storage spinoff "Malta" (and really, really drive home the point that they were coming up with names by spitballing random "molten"-like sounds) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-19/gates-bezos-among-billionaires-backing-alphabet-energy-spinoff https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-19/gates-bez...
- servercobra 7y agoI think with context it will be pretty apparent whether you're talking about islands in the Pacific/Micronesia or a real time chat room.
- trhway 7y agoi think not until they decide to add a Yap token with PoW based on stone chiseling.
- King-Aaron 7y agoI've literally never heard of this island until now.
- aabbcc1241 7y agoJava is also a place name
- skrebbel 7y agoI crack up every time I see the Java logo, a cup of coffee. I honestly doubt they knew it was an island with hundreds of millions of inhabitants when they picked that name.
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- fortran77 7y agoLets's yap! (NOW IN DARK MODE) https://yap.chat/x02xRdqrX_?invite=D_688_vp_L https://yap.chat/x02xRdqrX_?invite=D_688_vp_L
- taikawatiti 7y agohttps://yap.chat/HKXIaedEvZ?invite=CQ1A4RFj9E https://yap.chat/HKXIaedEvZ?invite=CQ1A4RFj9E Let's talk about cali
- jhoechtl 7y agoYeah, it's flawed. Six (the max) people left the room, I watch six empty seats.
- chansiky 7y agoThis is pretty cool!
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- 91edec 7y agoThe idea is cool but the execution is weird. Why can I not replace a speaker as a watcher when they leave the room? You just end up with dead rooms with a bunch of watchers. Or am I over thinking this?
- dannyw 7y agoIt’s probably just the MVP. It’s how products are launched these days.
- sarakayakomzin 7y agois it really an MVP if it isn't V?
- seaish 7y agoSo I tried putting a link in the box on the right and it just turned black. What is it supposed to look like?
- fumplethumb 7y agoCool app, but I really love the style. Is there a name for this kind of style? There’s a common theme here with sites like https://glitch.com https://glitch.com. I love it, so it would be nice to put a name to it. Also reminds me of https://sourcehut.org https://sourcehut.org, but to a lesser degree. Big fan of that design too!
- chrisco255 7y agoAnother example: https://dev.to/ https://dev.to/
- chasing 7y agoKind of a user interface flavor of the Memphis Milano style that was popular in the 80s (including with 80s Apple).
- reaperducer 7y agoReminds me of Tass Times in Tonetown (Amiga version, not the CGA abomination.) But I think that something along the lines of Warhol/Pop Art is probably more accurate.
- taneq 7y agoPop art? It reminds me a bit of Warhol's stuff.
- jhoechtl 7y agoThe logo reminds me of Vim
- numpad0 7y agoProbably something like “offset printing retro” would work...
- prox 7y agoThis is the correct answer, that’s how I know it as well.
- goldemerald 7y agoLet's talk about Artificial Intelligence https://yap.chat/4TB6xLs2nT?invite=QLSXwIEMCv https://yap.chat/4TB6xLs2nT?invite=QLSXwIEMCv Edit: It seems more people can't join even if you kick out those who already left.
- Thorentis 7y agoYep, that's gotta be a bug surely? If somebody leaves and the room now has 5/6 people, somebody can only join as an audience member and the sixth slot is stuck on "x has left the room". Surely slots should be reusable?
- RomanPushkin 7y agoI like the design. Any CSS frameworks that can produce similar look?
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- Snd_ 7y agoWhy would you need a framework for this? Oh man this is so wrong...
- tsukurimashou 7y agowelcome to modern web!
- RomanPushkin 7y agoBecause I want to save the time I have. I use Bulma for 100% of my projects because I want spending priceless minutes of my own free daily time for the application _core_ instead of flexboxing viewports and debugging compatibility for numerous clients (and proving my point here).
- Snd_ 7y agoI understand this sentiment, I really do... but this layout/design is so simple to make I think a framework would be overkill and unnecessary bloat. This is coming from someone who does css for a living daily so your mileage may vary.
- fibbery 7y ago* { font-family: monospace !important; } done!
- ra5 7y ago+1 for the dope, minimalist design. +2 for the no shenanigans approach. Love it
- meddlepal 7y agoNothing about this actually is minimal. It's a highly stylized design that I guess "feels" minimal, but it utterly fails at actually being minimal.
- ALittleLight 7y agoSaying it "utterly fails" seems harsh, especially because you don't give any explanation. I don't think you can say it fails at all, the author never said it was an attempt at minimalism, or minimalism in the way you understand it. The app has its own aesthetic. I think it's debatable whether it's minimalist or not. I don't think it's justifiable to say it "utterly fails" either way though.
- Geee 7y agoI think it's supposed to be used by a team working / playing together. Not very useful for a bunch of strangers.
- idclip 7y agoIs nice, will keep an eye
- aabbcc1241 7y agoAnyone truly like Yap as I do? Really like the concept of ephemeral communication. Focus on the people at the moment, instead of doing 'public image engineering'.
- lucidstack 7y agoHere's the blog post on how it was made: https://postlight.com/trackchanges/the-magic-elixir-behind-yap https://postlight.com/trackchanges/the-magic-elixir-behind-y...
- sfusato 7y agoWhile checking out the app I was thinking that Elixir&Phoenix is the perfect tool for this.
- zozbot234 7y agoSo, it's like IRC &channels with +l 6 CHANMODE? Nice, but the idea is literally decades old.
- ohithereyou 7y agoBut you see, it's "webscale"!
- mapcars 7y ago>Within Elixir and Erlang programs, it’s common to have hundreds of thousands of processes running at any given time. And limit it to just 6 participants? :D
- giancarlostoro 7y agoI'm assuming hosting this isn't free.
- al_chemist 7y ago"your messages appear and disappear as quickly as you type them, which means unless you pay attention to what everyone says (for once), you’ll miss it." I think limit is based on human attention limit, not Elixir process limit.
- dekken_ 7y agohangs :(
- bilekas 7y agoYeah okay, another chat app. I was going to ask questions but I think the below linked blog article about it would be better. I like the UI. Big, basic and intuitive! Thats a plus! Also 'kinda' like the domain itself! I imagine that was a quick early purchase.. As for the rest, I'm struggling to see something interesting. Unless its serverless and p2p based rooms ? That would be kinda neet, done before of course, but nicer than not!
- itake 7y agoDo know of any good mobile websites with good e2e ephemeral chats?
- AlexITC 7y agoWe built https://safer.chat https://safer.chat some time ago and I have been using it on my phone for a while, there are some glitches but in general it's been usable.
- ta999999171 7y agoRiot.im
- Dirlewanger 7y agoResume padding, which is like half of "Show HN" entries
- arunix 7y ago?- yet_another_prolog('yap.chat'). false. ?- This reminded me of the Prolog of the same name (it's website seems to be in limbo). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAP_(Prolog) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAP_(Prolog)
- fiatjaf 7y agoAdded that to https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-loginless https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-loginless. The company behind it apparently specializes in making these loginless useful apps, they also have TinySheet.com and TinyMonth.com
- terrycody 7y agoI prefer tlk.io before, so any differences?
- rntksi 7y agoI like the sound effects.