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Show HN: To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends

515 points by l1am0 7y ago

Animats 7y ago
You can do this in Second Life, although only for non-DRM video. There are movie theaters and big-screen TVs in the virtual world. You can watch with your friends, and talk or text to each other over the video.
- wolco 7y ago
  That sounds interesting. How do you find the places?
  - Animats 7y ago
    Look for movie theaters. Or buy a virtual big-screen TV for your virtual house and invite friends over.
    - vxNsr 7y ago
      Finally! A use for the lumens I got from the Keybase giveaway
derwiki 7y ago
Page <title> says "Bing Together"
- SwiftyBug 7y ago
  We gotta stop the Google monopoly, right?
  - l1am0 7y ago
    Love that one. Bing without e is fixed. Miss-typed it once and than copy pasted it too often.
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kazinator 7y ago
> To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends. I would call it "CoVid: watch videos together, remotely."
- willio58 7y ago
  Almost as perfect as it is morbid.
  - choward 7y ago
    The auction site for caskets?
    - messe 7y ago
      CoVidBid?
    - onetimemanytime 7y ago
      Caskets are so Februaryish
    - deeblering4 7y ago
      And urns
  - Uehreka 7y ago
    Right now I see a lot of folks making light of Covid-19 by coming up with silly pun-based names for sites, groups, etc. and I totally understand why: Many of us (especially in tech, where layoffs have been less bad than other sectors) currently associate this event with staying indoors, being kinda bored, trying to find things to do to pass the time. People are intellectual aware that there’s a deadly virus out there, but haven’t really emotionally reckoned with it. But I feel pretty confident that there’s going to be a whiplash change in public perception over the next month, as a large percentage of the population comes to know Covid-19 as the thing that killed friends or members of their families. So if you (the reader, this isn’t necessarily aimed at GP) are considering naming something after Covid-19, Corona(virus) or the word “pandemic”: I understand where you’re coming from, but I’d advise you to think twice. You really don’t want your brand to remind someone of the month they spent tending to a loved one with fluid in their lungs.
aldoushuxley001 7y ago
does anyone know of a good website to do this but for music? Ideally I'd love to be able to create room where buddies can join, we can chat and take turns suggesting songs to play that we all listen to. I would literally pay money for that.
- fuklief 7y ago
  If you pay for spotify, https://www.jqbx.fm/ https://www.jqbx.fm/ can do that.
- fenwick67 7y ago
  MPD can handle the streaming part for you but you have to have access to all the files. https://musicpd.org/ https://musicpd.org/
- lprubin 7y ago
  This site does that for Youtube: https://plug.dj/ https://plug.dj/
- cameronbrown 7y ago
  watch2gether.com does YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and SoundCloud
- a_t48 7y ago
  https://cytu.be/ https://cytu.be/ - works with YT, SoundCloud, and some others.
  - Avamander 7y ago
    And also supports videos from various platforms and self-hosted content.
- fonosip 7y ago
  https://ba.net/screen-share-party https://ba.net/screen-share-party
smoyer 7y ago
This is an awesome project ... my daughters have been doing this a bit just using group-chat on their phones but I'm going to propose our small prep school has a movie night. I guess that will test it at scale ;)
adriand 7y ago
Sounds a little similar to https://rave.io/ https://rave.io/ Nice job!
russfink 7y ago
What if someone is on a device like a Fire TV?
- l1am0 7y ago
  Currently this can not be supported with the tech stack I use. (As it uses javascript redirects to start a video)
Joof 7y ago
I've wanted this for so many years.
thrownaway954 7y ago
your title attribute says "Bing Together", you're missing an "e"
- l1am0 7y ago
  Thanks!
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ghostpepper 7y ago
This is very cool but I worry about your bandwidth bill if it takes off. Does voice chat go through the server?
- l1am0 7y ago
  I static cache all /p/* site via cloudflare and the voice chat is via jitsi meet an external privacy friendly service
dmtroyer 7y ago
this is not intuitive.
- l1am0 7y ago
  What do you dislike about the interface? How can I improve it? Thanks for your help.
  - dmtroyer 7y ago
    I'm just confused. How is syncing supposed to work? 1. I start a "watch party" 2. I give the link to friends. 3. They click the button "Open the movie and check for autostart." 4. The video opens. At the beginning. Not where the other people are at. What is "Autostart"? You mention to "Open the movie directly and ask in the voice chat what time you should jump to". How is this different than just sharing the link to the video and pressing play at the same time or having them skip ahead. I don't understand.
    - l1am0 7y ago
      Ah okay. So that button is to dominant Open the movie and check for autostart." is just the preperation to check if the video starts correctly e.g. if in firefox autoplay is allowed. The actually watch party starts when the countdown hits zero, by redirecting everyone in the same moment to the video. "Open the movie directly and ask in the voice chat what time you should jump to" is when you missed the start. Syncing works via starting everyone at the same time in the beginning of the movie
      - philsnow 7y ago
        If for some reason somebody joins late / gets kicked off, and you're watching something on youtube, youtube supports time-index URL fragments like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4-SxcCO5d0#t=3m17s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4-SxcCO5d0#t=3m17s , and you could start a new watchparty with that URL. It's heavyweight and probably better to just sync by somebody shouting a timestamp, but if you need things synced there you go.
leowoo91 7y ago
I've entered a random youtube url, "open movie" test click worked fine but when the counter hit, it went to netflix... (Safari)
- l1am0 7y ago
  Oh wow. That was propably the dumbest bug I ever produced. Still hat my testing (netflix) url hardcoded in the countdown javascript. Works now. Thanks for reporting.
errantspark 7y ago
My friends and I do this through Discord. One person shares their screen playing netflix/disney/whatever and then everyone just hangs out in voice and watches together. It's a really seamless experience and the re-encoding is usually not a problem, action scenes can get a little blocky but the quality is really pretty great.
- joecot 7y ago
  It didn't seem like Discord sent desktop audio with the screen share. Does it do so, or did your friend do some magic to get it to work? I've read for ex you can use pulseaudio on linux to mix the input sources and then use that virtual output for Discord, but I'd be happy to find an easier way.
  - TypeCaste 7y ago
    Share the application, not the desktop. It will capture the application audio.
- SirYandi 7y ago
  Not that this isn't a great idea and something I am now thinking of doing, but I wonder if you're breaking some digital rights law here (?)
  - jordigh 7y ago
    You are, and if you're in a big channel that brings a lot of attention and Discord notices it they'll probably shut it down. Same reason people don't just usually stream movies from Twitch. I've seen some Twitch channels that do, like the popular Bob Ross channel, but that's with approval of the rights owners who get a cut of the revenue. Keep it small and intimate in Discord and it will probably be okay.
- ryeights 7y ago
  >the re-encoding is usually not a problem, action scenes can get a little blocky but the quality is really pretty great. YMMV. This usually barely works for me, I suspect you need a really steady, high-speed upload to make this work.
kolchinski 7y ago
This is great, I've wanted something like this in the past! Thanks for building. I'll be giving it a try for a watch party I was planning with friends. Mind sharing how it works and what stack you used?
- l1am0 7y ago
  Awesome, hope it all works out. Stack is quite simple: Frontend: Bulma.css, Vanilla Javascript, HTML Backend: PHP, MariaDB It works by redirecting in the right moment to the streaming sites, via a JavaScript redirect. The voice chat is done via https://meet.jit.si/ https://meet.jit.si/ To handle potential big load, I force cloudflare to cache all sites under url /p/* thereby after the creation of the watch party, no request hits my server anymore :D
  - joecot 7y ago
    I'm guessing it doesn't handle people pausing the video like Netflix Party or SyncLounge does then?
    - l1am0 7y ago
      No that is currently not possible, as there is no way of getting the information about the playback from the website. To enable this feature a browser plugin would be required again. With Binge Together I opted for not supporting that in favor of an easier use. (Not everyone included needs to install the extension etc.)
goda90 7y ago
So my movie nights with friends used to involve watching a movie(on some streaming service or from disk), and then queuing up a bunch of random YouTube videos over Chromecast. It would be great if this wasn't tied to a single URL, but instead we could make a room and add videos to a queue to watch.
- l1am0 7y ago
  Awesome feature idea! This is currently the MVP and a lot more is to come. Will be added to my list. The problem would be on how to start the next video, as it is a javascript redirect only, so I have no information when a video in the queue is finished. Maybe websockets and someone pressing "next" could be an option.
amflare 7y ago
Does this require everyone to have an account for the paid services (Netflix for now)? Does this require anyone to have an account for the paid services if you happen to be able to get your hands on a Netflix URL?
- l1am0 7y ago
  Yes. Everyone involved need an account and needs to be logged in as well. It works by basically redirecting to the streaming website.
  - ryandrake 7y ago
    It would be awesome if it worked also for people with a local copy of the movie so people with Netflix could watch simultaneously with people with a digital file or physical media!
mattste 7y ago
Have you investigated what it'd take to addd Hulu support? I find majority of my shows are split between Netflix and Hulu.
- l1am0 7y ago
  Not yet as Hulu is not supported in germany (my home country). Will digg into it in the next few hours. Would anyone be willing to share their hulu account with me so I can test it? bingehulu@simon-frey.com
effingwewt 7y ago
I love this. I still speak fondly of the early days of netlfix, when it first got into streaming on the 360. You could invite an xbox live party to watch movies on Netflix. It had a border you could enable that made it look like a theatre screen with seats, with your live avatars sitting in them, a la Mystery Science Theatre. There was nothing quite like being in a chat party watching movies together. You could talk as loudly as you wanted while doing/eating what you wanted. Blew the actual theatre out of the water. Really amazing experience that was killed off way too soon (greed, Netflix didn't want non subscribers to watch free). Hopefully this is a road back there, definitely going to spread this around and show some $love edit: not finding a donation link, but if you get a link up I'm happy to do so!
- l1am0 7y ago
  Thanks for all your kind feedback: Did not think of donations so far, but here is my paypal: https://www.paypal.me/51edpo https://www.paypal.me/51edpo Binge Together, still needs everyone involved to have an account with the streaming services, thoug.
  - effingwewt 7y ago
    Wonderful, and awesome work! Saw the donation links up, came back to say thanks and good luck with future endeavors!
- vinniejames 7y ago
  It's not greed, it's licensing. Copyright owners wouldn't allow it, facilitating copyright infringement isn't good business
  - fphhotchips 7y ago
    I don't know, YouTube does OK.
  - effingwewt 7y ago
    Still greed if you ask me, how would it be different from me renting a movie at home and having friends over? I dread the day when we have forced ocular/ear implants that allow for the blocking of anything we dont have a license for. Nonetheless I get your point, I just believe it's sad that for all the innovation a free market touts, all I remember are the cool/amazing/interesting things they took from us by stifling real innovation.
usrbintaco 7y ago
Does anyone want to babysit my kids remotely to fight boredom cause I'm losing my mind.
mceoin 7y ago
I've been waiting for this product. Nice work.
Reedx 7y ago
Anyone remember turntable.fm? I know a bunch of replacements popped up, but nothing seemed to capture the same kind of magic...
- aantix 7y ago
  After turntable.fm closed they briefly did Turntable Live. Which was the coolest online concert experience I ever had. I recorded a session. But sadly, not the system audio. But you can get a feel for the experience. https://youtu.be/08SvwB9S53U https://youtu.be/08SvwB9S53U
- MivLives 7y ago
  Yes, I actually helped make a clone of it for my final college project. Since then the cocnept has sort of died. I'm a little surprised it's not something that Spotify did more with. I know they have a colistening feature but I have yet to have anyone want to attempt that. As far as I can tell you need to link up by Facebook to even attempt that.
  - rdlw 7y ago
    You can colisten to somebody's Spotify through Discord. Sadly it's a pretty obscure feature no one uses much, but it's worked well the couple of times I've tried it.
    - lenocinor 7y ago
      I've used it some back when it was first introduced. Some people were just not ever able to sync with the stream sometimes, and also it was a bummer asking everyone to sign up for Spotify Premium to be able to listen. I don't know if it's better now but I personally would not recommend it to others.
    - MivLives 7y ago
      It's not as easy as dropping a link in a server and saying, hey come checkout my turntable room. I know that some voice chats have a music bot that works similarly for youtube though.
text_exch 7y ago
For those who prefer text-based entertainment, I run an email newsletter called Thinking About Things [1], which sends out a link to an interesting article every day. It's aimed at curious people who don't have a lot of time to read - each email has an extended quote from the article so that you can see if it interests you. It's gotten very good reviews from readers. [1] https://www.thinking-about-things.com/ https://www.thinking-about-things.com/
- allpratik 7y ago
  That's really interesting. Was indeed in a need of one since a long time. Already subscribed now and excited to review few emails and their content. Thank you for starting and maintaining something like this.
- manigandham 7y ago
  I recommend adding an archive of the past emails so I can review the content before signing up. You also get web visitors that way, people that would rather read websites or via RSS.
- drannex 7y ago
  Not the place for this, totally off topic.
Avamander 7y ago
What differentiates this and cytube? (https://cytu.be https://cytu.be)
- l1am0 7y ago
  BingeTogether.com is legal ;)
  - Avamander 7y ago
    What are you on about? There's nothing about cytube that's illegal.
ryder9 7y ago
treesnetwork.com still exists
jjice 7y ago
Really cool! Growing up, my friends and I spend many nights self queuing or on similar sites. Out of curiosity, what's your stack? Also, are there any plans for open source?
- l1am0 7y ago
  From other comment: Stack is quite simple: Frontend: Bulma.css, Vanilla Javascript, HTML Backend: PHP, MariaDB It works by redirecting in the right moment to the streaming sites, via a JavaScript redirect. The voice chat is done via https://meet.jit.si/ https://meet.jit.si/ To handle potential big load, I force cloudflare to cache all sites under url /p/* thereby after the creation of the watch party, no request hits my server anymore :D Currently I have no plan to open sourcing it
awinder 7y ago
This is on my reading / testing list earlier today: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/25/21191604/watch-movies-friends-online-netflix-hulu-youtube-party-twoseven-metastream-amazon-hbo-scener https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/25/21191604/watch-movies-fri... Will have to add this to the list!
RangerScience 7y ago
Does this work with Chromecast? Netflix Party doesn't, and that's the main reason I don't use it.
- l1am0 7y ago
  No it does not, as there is no api for controling the playback on the chromecast
chx 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18123862 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18123862 is great. Really, really great. No idea why it's not more widely recognized or used.
- freeqaz 7y ago
  (also shilling) Another similar site (that a friend of mine built) is TeamFlix. He built it to stream with his brother and didn't find any alternatives (this was a few years ago now). https://teamflix.com/ https://teamflix.com/
  - chx 7y ago
    I am not shilling, I found the site just yesterday after much effort in searching and I am usually pretty good at searching. Learning it was basically a family effort: my brother and I have been online since 1993 and he has a librarian degree and I am a software developer / hacker and this combo has led to much expertise. My brother is better -- he can search in languages he can't read or write. It's like a magic trick.
    - sah2ed 7y ago
      > he can search in languages he can't read or write. It's like a magic trick. Have you ever tried to suss out how he is able conduct web searches so effectively? Would be interested in what you learned.
- Malankov 7y ago
  Also Togethr.TV (https://togethr.tv https://togethr.tv). Created by me some years ago! People can watch videos together and chat (text/audio) and some other features.
  - chx 7y ago
    The one about works with local files. For my purposes it's much better than YouTube.
polishdude20 7y ago
Can you easily add the ability to share screen or application so I can watch a video file with a friend?
- AndrewKemendo 7y ago
  I assume they avoided that on purpose due to copyright.
  - l1am0 7y ago
    Yep. There are other services for that. (e.g. you could just use hangouts)
  - efreak 7y ago
    I don't see how you could hold someone liable just for allowing you to screenshare. I think it'd be interesting to accept file-based input, and stream via webrtc.
tommy_mcclung 7y ago
I have a 15 year old and 13 year old at home, online with their friends basically passing the time in quarantine with Zoom on all day. I literally just told my 15 year old something like this needs to exist. Showing him now... he’s going to love it.
codpiece 7y ago
Sent it to my kids, thanks!
philsnow 7y ago
Feedback: I'd like a button that advances the 'start time' to "ASAP" -- I realize you're probably doing some NTP-like time syncing between clients, and "just start right now" maybe won't have everybody synced already, but if all my friends are already in the voice chat / already on the link, there's no need to wait for the appointed time. edit: alternatively since the URLs are hard to guess, you could have the creator of the watchparty specify a "auto-start ASAP after this many people have joined" number, so once Bob and Carol have joined, it just starts. Also, youtube ads are going to disrupt the synchronized start, since each person is going to see a different ad (or no ad), but I think you've said elsewhere in the thread that there's no way to get around this without requiring a browser extension.
- l1am0 7y ago
  Awesome! I love the "start after X people joined" idea. What you are currently seeing is the MVP. I plan to integrate websockets for the communication between clients. So you just can hit "start now" and it would start (or after X people joined the websocket channel). This will take some time, as it is a lot harded to get scalable as the current (static solution is. Yes, the youtube ads will be a problem that sadly can not be circumvented with my tech stack.
Waterluvian 7y ago
My favourite thing is watching stuff with thousands of people in chat. Like Bob Ross or Mr. Rogers. The culture that emerges is magical.
spaceprison 7y ago
Great idea! My wife was just doing this with a friend in st Louis over text.
tbrock 7y ago
There are a lot of these. A way to stand out would be to make it work with all the streaming gadgets like an Apple TV, roku stick or fire stick. Would be a killer app right now. Who watches a movie sitting at their computer?
- l1am0 7y ago
  Would love that as well, but it is really hard to support even only chromecast with my tech stack. For now I do not plan to support TV applications with Binge Together.
justlexi93 7y ago
This is will be fun since the lockdown is currently taking place all around the world.
geoffreyy 7y ago
similar to netflixparty.com except: - it also supports prime/youtube/vimeo - it has an audio/video chat instead of a simple text chat - it doesn't require a chrome extension - it doesn't actually sync across the viewers? (start time, play/pause) does it mean you can literally support other platforms without any integration?
- LudwigNagasena 7y ago
  >it doesn't actually sync across the viewers? (start time, play/pause) What is even the point then? It's litearlly the only feature I expect from such service.
  - virtualmic 7y ago
    From the description on homepage: > Wait until the countdown hits zero and your movie night starts So it does sync across viewers (I haven't actually tried it yet).
    - l1am0 7y ago
      It syncs the start time. As it works without a browser extension I can not sync the actual movie as I do not get the information. What I am planing to do is to allow a later join into the movie night by calculating how much time has passed since the movie night start and then send the late attendee to that time code in the movie. Not supported by all services tough :/
  - geoffreyy 7y ago
    I agree and that's why I pointed it out. you could literally just put any URL to any website and call it a party if there is no sync capabilities.
- l1am0 7y ago
  As written ion the page, it would be able to support any website on the internet, as it does a simple redirect to the website on countdown 0. What I want to provide is an auto start and a jump to timecode 0. All platforms that allow that via query parameters can be supported by binge together :D
corpMaverick 7y ago
It is not clear to me if everybody in the party needs to have netflix. (or whatever service was chosen)
- l1am0 7y ago
  Yes. Everyone needs to have an account and to be signed in.
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SubiculumCode 7y ago
I posted this link on my social media, and it got a fair bit of attention. Keep it up!
irjustin 7y ago
This is really interesting. A Seattle startup where I am friends with a number of the old staff: BuddyTv [0] It makes me sad that the idea didn't work out and in times other than this... it still won't work out. But it's glad to know there are times when this absolutely valued. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuddyTV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuddyTV
softwarejosh 7y ago
cool project reminds me of rabbit.tv
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moneywoes 7y ago
What did you use to build it?
- l1am0 7y ago
  From other comment: Stack is quite simple: Frontend: Bulma.css, Vanilla Javascript, HTML Backend: PHP, MariaDB It works by redirecting in the right moment to the streaming sites, via a JavaScript redirect. The voice chat is done via https://meet.jit.si/ https://meet.jit.si/ To handle potential big load, I force cloudflare to cache all sites under url /p/* thereby after the creation of the watch party, no request hits my server anymore :D
Hamuko 7y ago
There's https://syncplay.pl/ https://syncplay.pl/ for video files.
noeltock 7y ago
Any planned support for Plex? Thanks!
- wrboyce 7y ago
  There is a similar product for Plex, I think it is called SyncLounge. Yep: http://synclounge.tv/ http://synclounge.tv/
BiteCode_dev 7y ago
I'm still wondering how people manage to get bored in today's age. You have millions of journals, books, music tracks, tv shows, films and video games. You have tutorials on youtube to learn new skill, such as cooking, yoga, DIY, coding, etc. You can chat, phone or email to all your relatives and friends. You can take the opportunity to produce something, write, build, create, imagine. Even without a computer you can write or draw. You can take time for yourself, sleep more, meditate, rest, do things slowly. Please explain it to me, I genuinely don't understand.
- tov_objorkin 7y ago
  We're social animals, this is hardcoded part of our brain. Managing solitude require training as anything else.
  - BiteCode_dev 7y ago
    Solitude and boredom is not the same. I understand solitude. You have a need. It's not fulfilled. I don't get boredom: I see so many ways to fulfill this need.
- imtringued 7y ago
  People were busy with other things than youtube or TVs. If you suddenly destroy their routine they will have to discover the internet for the first time.
randomlogin 7y ago
Thank you so much for this! I will spread the word and I'm sure it'll outlive the pandemic. I was waiting for someone (even Netflix) to do this the last couple of years for Valentine's day (as I realized I won't spend the time on building it myself). Being in a long distance relationship made me realize that this would be a fun way to nurture the relationship - watching the movie together, while apart.
NicoJuicy 7y ago
I would love it if https://web.microsoftstream.com/ https://web.microsoftstream.com/ could be added ( work related)
- l1am0 7y ago
  What is that? Can't even login
  - JorgeGT 7y ago
    It's a corporate video sharing service in Office 365. Think Youtube for your company.
    - l1am0 7y ago
      If you would be able to share a login with me, than I could check if it can be included. Login could be send to office365bingewatching@simon-frey.com
      - NicoJuicy 7y ago
        It's my personal work email and has company videos on it. So I'm not able to share, sorry. What information would you need for it? nico@sapico.me
Hitton 7y ago
There are already dozens of such sites (just search for alternatives to Kast or Rabb.it), why should we use this one? Are there any advantages over competition?
- l1am0 7y ago
  e.g. Compared to Kast it works directly in the browser without any additional software
crimsonalucard 7y ago
Nice, also compatible with bit torrent.
amelius 7y ago
But what if you have Netflix and your buddies have HBO Now?
thatguyagain 7y ago
Really cool! How do you make the streams start the same time for everyone?
- terminalcommand 7y ago
  On the website it says that they figured out the autoplay feature on those sites. I imagine when the countdown ends, it enables the autoplay and the movie starts.
AnonC 7y ago
I personally don’t like people talking when watching a movie or a TV show. It’s fine if they exclaim or laugh or gasp depending on the situation (and not being too loud), but anything that’s some kind of speech or commentary makes me lose bits of what I’m watching and want to focus on. With streaming video, I can pause, rewind and then continue. But in this case, that would no longer be in sync with where the others are. The biggest advantage of streaming is being able to take breaks and continue at any point in time. I’m not sure how well this platform would work if there are many people and each one decides to take a break at a separate time (making others wait if they wish to be somewhat in sync). This may work better if participants pre-decide how many breaks will be taken and approximately at what times or points.
- dhimes 7y ago
  It would be fun for stupid stuff though that doesn't really matter- you and your friends could chat and make fun of it MST3k style.
  - klondike_klive 7y ago
    Some friends and I have started doing this with terrible movies, straight-to-DVD Steven Seagal/Nicolas Cage style stuff. Problem is we're all starting the movie at very slightly different times, like within 15 seconds but still sometimes hard to guess what people are referencing. Oh, and we don't use voice chat, it's just Whatsapp. I personally wouldn't feel comfortable piping up in a group of ten or twelve, some of whom I haven't met, I much prefer typing a joke, and am a fast enough typist that I'm not too much behind the action I'm writing about.
l1am0 7y ago
Now bingetogether.com has multi language support :D
lukeplato 7y ago
the app is a 3rd party voice chat with a URL link and a countdown, I'm surprised it's so popular tbh
jmckib 7y ago
I couldn't get it to work. When I click "Join movie party" it just opens another tab of the party page with a timestamp in the url. Also there appears to be a timezone issue? I have to input a time an hour ahead of what I actually want.
- l1am0 7y ago
  Was that a youtube link? That is fixed now. Still working on the timezone. Some browsers are doing problems here. If the problem still persists, would you be so kind and sending me a screencast on how the site behaves to: bingetogether@simon-frey.eu Thanks so much!
lsv1 7y ago
You should get Google Analytics installed, and AdSense ads... at the least.
- l1am0 7y ago
  No I do not want analytics. I use the privacy friendly matomo for that. Ads are planed, but I would like to go with another path than google as well. Maybe some movie sponsors :D
ganessh 7y ago
I am not able to create an URL. Is it down?

515 points by l1am0 7y ago

You can do this in Second Life, although only for non-DRM video. There are movie theaters and big-screen TVs in the virtual world. You can watch with your friends, and talk or text to each other over the video.

wolco 7y ago
That sounds interesting. How do you find the places?
- Animats 7y ago
  Look for movie theaters. Or buy a virtual big-screen TV for your virtual house and invite friends over.
  - vxNsr 7y ago
    Finally! A use for the lumens I got from the Keybase giveaway

derwiki 7y ago

Page <title> says "Bing Together"

SwiftyBug 7y ago
We gotta stop the Google monopoly, right?
- l1am0 7y ago
  Love that one. Bing without e is fixed. Miss-typed it once and than copy pasted it too often.

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kazinator 7y ago

> To fight quarantine boredom I build a site to watch movies with friends. I would call it "CoVid: watch videos together, remotely."

willio58 7y ago
Almost as perfect as it is morbid.
- choward 7y ago
  The auction site for caskets?
  - messe 7y ago
    CoVidBid?
  - onetimemanytime 7y ago
    Caskets are so Februaryish
  - deeblering4 7y ago
    And urns
- Uehreka 7y ago
  Right now I see a lot of folks making light of Covid-19 by coming up with silly pun-based names for sites, groups, etc. and I totally understand why: Many of us (especially in tech, where layoffs have been less bad than other sectors) currently associate this event with staying indoors, being kinda bored, trying to find things to do to pass the time. People are intellectual aware that there’s a deadly virus out there, but haven’t really emotionally reckoned with it. But I feel pretty confident that there’s going to be a whiplash change in public perception over the next month, as a large percentage of the population comes to know Covid-19 as the thing that killed friends or members of their families. So if you (the reader, this isn’t necessarily aimed at GP) are considering naming something after Covid-19, Corona(virus) or the word “pandemic”: I understand where you’re coming from, but I’d advise you to think twice. You really don’t want your brand to remind someone of the month they spent tending to a loved one with fluid in their lungs.

aldoushuxley001 7y ago

does anyone know of a good website to do this but for music? Ideally I'd love to be able to create room where buddies can join, we can chat and take turns suggesting songs to play that we all listen to. I would literally pay money for that.

fuklief 7y ago
If you pay for spotify, https://www.jqbx.fm/ https://www.jqbx.fm/ can do that.
fenwick67 7y ago
MPD can handle the streaming part for you but you have to have access to all the files. https://musicpd.org/ https://musicpd.org/
lprubin 7y ago
This site does that for Youtube: https://plug.dj/ https://plug.dj/
cameronbrown 7y ago
watch2gether.com does YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion and SoundCloud
a_t48 7y ago
https://cytu.be/ https://cytu.be/ - works with YT, SoundCloud, and some others.
- Avamander 7y ago
  And also supports videos from various platforms and self-hosted content.
fonosip 7y ago
https://ba.net/screen-share-party https://ba.net/screen-share-party

smoyer 7y ago

This is an awesome project ... my daughters have been doing this a bit just using group-chat on their phones but I'm going to propose our small prep school has a movie night. I guess that will test it at scale ;)

adriand 7y ago

Sounds a little similar to https://rave.io/ https://rave.io/ Nice job!

russfink 7y ago

What if someone is on a device like a Fire TV?

l1am0 7y ago
Currently this can not be supported with the tech stack I use. (As it uses javascript redirects to start a video)

Joof 7y ago

I've wanted this for so many years.

thrownaway954 7y ago

your title attribute says "Bing Together", you're missing an "e"

l1am0 7y ago
Thanks!

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ghostpepper 7y ago

This is very cool but I worry about your bandwidth bill if it takes off. Does voice chat go through the server?

l1am0 7y ago
I static cache all /p/* site via cloudflare and the voice chat is via jitsi meet an external privacy friendly service

dmtroyer 7y ago

this is not intuitive.

l1am0 7y ago
What do you dislike about the interface? How can I improve it? Thanks for your help.
- dmtroyer 7y ago
  I'm just confused. How is syncing supposed to work? 1. I start a "watch party" 2. I give the link to friends. 3. They click the button "Open the movie and check for autostart." 4. The video opens. At the beginning. Not where the other people are at. What is "Autostart"? You mention to "Open the movie directly and ask in the voice chat what time you should jump to". How is this different than just sharing the link to the video and pressing play at the same time or having them skip ahead. I don't understand.
  - l1am0 7y ago
    Ah okay. So that button is to dominant Open the movie and check for autostart." is just the preperation to check if the video starts correctly e.g. if in firefox autoplay is allowed. The actually watch party starts when the countdown hits zero, by redirecting everyone in the same moment to the video. "Open the movie directly and ask in the voice chat what time you should jump to" is when you missed the start. Syncing works via starting everyone at the same time in the beginning of the movie
    - philsnow 7y ago
      If for some reason somebody joins late / gets kicked off, and you're watching something on youtube, youtube supports time-index URL fragments like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4-SxcCO5d0#t=3m17s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4-SxcCO5d0#t=3m17s , and you could start a new watchparty with that URL. It's heavyweight and probably better to just sync by somebody shouting a timestamp, but if you need things synced there you go.

leowoo91 7y ago

I've entered a random youtube url, "open movie" test click worked fine but when the counter hit, it went to netflix... (Safari)

l1am0 7y ago
Oh wow. That was propably the dumbest bug I ever produced. Still hat my testing (netflix) url hardcoded in the countdown javascript. Works now. Thanks for reporting.

errantspark 7y ago

My friends and I do this through Discord. One person shares their screen playing netflix/disney/whatever and then everyone just hangs out in voice and watches together. It's a really seamless experience and the re-encoding is usually not a problem, action scenes can get a little blocky but the quality is really pretty great.

joecot 7y ago
It didn't seem like Discord sent desktop audio with the screen share. Does it do so, or did your friend do some magic to get it to work? I've read for ex you can use pulseaudio on linux to mix the input sources and then use that virtual output for Discord, but I'd be happy to find an easier way.
- TypeCaste 7y ago
  Share the application, not the desktop. It will capture the application audio.
SirYandi 7y ago
Not that this isn't a great idea and something I am now thinking of doing, but I wonder if you're breaking some digital rights law here (?)
- jordigh 7y ago
  You are, and if you're in a big channel that brings a lot of attention and Discord notices it they'll probably shut it down. Same reason people don't just usually stream movies from Twitch. I've seen some Twitch channels that do, like the popular Bob Ross channel, but that's with approval of the rights owners who get a cut of the revenue. Keep it small and intimate in Discord and it will probably be okay.
ryeights 7y ago
>the re-encoding is usually not a problem, action scenes can get a little blocky but the quality is really pretty great. YMMV. This usually barely works for me, I suspect you need a really steady, high-speed upload to make this work.

kolchinski 7y ago

This is great, I've wanted something like this in the past! Thanks for building. I'll be giving it a try for a watch party I was planning with friends. Mind sharing how it works and what stack you used?

l1am0 7y ago
Awesome, hope it all works out. Stack is quite simple: Frontend: Bulma.css, Vanilla Javascript, HTML Backend: PHP, MariaDB It works by redirecting in the right moment to the streaming sites, via a JavaScript redirect. The voice chat is done via https://meet.jit.si/ https://meet.jit.si/ To handle potential big load, I force cloudflare to cache all sites under url /p/* thereby after the creation of the watch party, no request hits my server anymore :D
- joecot 7y ago
  I'm guessing it doesn't handle people pausing the video like Netflix Party or SyncLounge does then?
  - l1am0 7y ago
    No that is currently not possible, as there is no way of getting the information about the playback from the website. To enable this feature a browser plugin would be required again. With Binge Together I opted for not supporting that in favor of an easier use. (Not everyone included needs to install the extension etc.)

goda90 7y ago

So my movie nights with friends used to involve watching a movie(on some streaming service or from disk), and then queuing up a bunch of random YouTube videos over Chromecast. It would be great if this wasn't tied to a single URL, but instead we could make a room and add videos to a queue to watch.

l1am0 7y ago
Awesome feature idea! This is currently the MVP and a lot more is to come. Will be added to my list. The problem would be on how to start the next video, as it is a javascript redirect only, so I have no information when a video in the queue is finished. Maybe websockets and someone pressing "next" could be an option.

amflare 7y ago

Does this require everyone to have an account for the paid services (Netflix for now)? Does this require anyone to have an account for the paid services if you happen to be able to get your hands on a Netflix URL?

l1am0 7y ago
Yes. Everyone involved need an account and needs to be logged in as well. It works by basically redirecting to the streaming website.
- ryandrake 7y ago
  It would be awesome if it worked also for people with a local copy of the movie so people with Netflix could watch simultaneously with people with a digital file or physical media!

mattste 7y ago

Have you investigated what it'd take to addd Hulu support? I find majority of my shows are split between Netflix and Hulu.

l1am0 7y ago
Not yet as Hulu is not supported in germany (my home country). Will digg into it in the next few hours. Would anyone be willing to share their hulu account with me so I can test it? bingehulu@simon-frey.com

effingwewt 7y ago

I love this. I still speak fondly of the early days of netlfix, when it first got into streaming on the 360. You could invite an xbox live party to watch movies on Netflix. It had a border you could enable that made it look like a theatre screen with seats, with your live avatars sitting in them, a la Mystery Science Theatre. There was nothing quite like being in a chat party watching movies together. You could talk as loudly as you wanted while doing/eating what you wanted. Blew the actual theatre out of the water. Really amazing experience that was killed off way too soon (greed, Netflix didn't want non subscribers to watch free). Hopefully this is a road back there, definitely going to spread this around and show some $love edit: not finding a donation link, but if you get a link up I'm happy to do so!

l1am0 7y ago
Thanks for all your kind feedback: Did not think of donations so far, but here is my paypal: https://www.paypal.me/51edpo https://www.paypal.me/51edpo Binge Together, still needs everyone involved to have an account with the streaming services, thoug.
- effingwewt 7y ago
  Wonderful, and awesome work! Saw the donation links up, came back to say thanks and good luck with future endeavors!
vinniejames 7y ago
It's not greed, it's licensing. Copyright owners wouldn't allow it, facilitating copyright infringement isn't good business
- fphhotchips 7y ago
  I don't know, YouTube does OK.
- effingwewt 7y ago
  Still greed if you ask me, how would it be different from me renting a movie at home and having friends over? I dread the day when we have forced ocular/ear implants that allow for the blocking of anything we dont have a license for. Nonetheless I get your point, I just believe it's sad that for all the innovation a free market touts, all I remember are the cool/amazing/interesting things they took from us by stifling real innovation.

usrbintaco 7y ago

Does anyone want to babysit my kids remotely to fight boredom cause I'm losing my mind.

mceoin 7y ago

I've been waiting for this product. Nice work.

Reedx 7y ago

Anyone remember turntable.fm? I know a bunch of replacements popped up, but nothing seemed to capture the same kind of magic...

aantix 7y ago
After turntable.fm closed they briefly did Turntable Live. Which was the coolest online concert experience I ever had. I recorded a session. But sadly, not the system audio. But you can get a feel for the experience. https://youtu.be/08SvwB9S53U https://youtu.be/08SvwB9S53U
MivLives 7y ago
Yes, I actually helped make a clone of it for my final college project. Since then the cocnept has sort of died. I'm a little surprised it's not something that Spotify did more with. I know they have a colistening feature but I have yet to have anyone want to attempt that. As far as I can tell you need to link up by Facebook to even attempt that.
- rdlw 7y ago
  You can colisten to somebody's Spotify through Discord. Sadly it's a pretty obscure feature no one uses much, but it's worked well the couple of times I've tried it.
  - lenocinor 7y ago
    I've used it some back when it was first introduced. Some people were just not ever able to sync with the stream sometimes, and also it was a bummer asking everyone to sign up for Spotify Premium to be able to listen. I don't know if it's better now but I personally would not recommend it to others.
  - MivLives 7y ago
    It's not as easy as dropping a link in a server and saying, hey come checkout my turntable room. I know that some voice chats have a music bot that works similarly for youtube though.

text_exch 7y ago

For those who prefer text-based entertainment, I run an email newsletter called Thinking About Things [1], which sends out a link to an interesting article every day. It's aimed at curious people who don't have a lot of time to read - each email has an extended quote from the article so that you can see if it interests you. It's gotten very good reviews from readers. [1] https://www.thinking-about-things.com/ https://www.thinking-about-things.com/

allpratik 7y ago
That's really interesting. Was indeed in a need of one since a long time. Already subscribed now and excited to review few emails and their content. Thank you for starting and maintaining something like this.
manigandham 7y ago
I recommend adding an archive of the past emails so I can review the content before signing up. You also get web visitors that way, people that would rather read websites or via RSS.
drannex 7y ago
Not the place for this, totally off topic.

Avamander 7y ago

What differentiates this and cytube? (https://cytu.be https://cytu.be)

l1am0 7y ago
BingeTogether.com is legal ;)
- Avamander 7y ago
  What are you on about? There's nothing about cytube that's illegal.

ryder9 7y ago

treesnetwork.com still exists

jjice 7y ago

Really cool! Growing up, my friends and I spend many nights self queuing or on similar sites. Out of curiosity, what's your stack? Also, are there any plans for open source?

l1am0 7y ago
From other comment: Stack is quite simple: Frontend: Bulma.css, Vanilla Javascript, HTML Backend: PHP, MariaDB It works by redirecting in the right moment to the streaming sites, via a JavaScript redirect. The voice chat is done via https://meet.jit.si/ https://meet.jit.si/ To handle potential big load, I force cloudflare to cache all sites under url /p/* thereby after the creation of the watch party, no request hits my server anymore :D Currently I have no plan to open sourcing it

awinder 7y ago

This is on my reading / testing list earlier today: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/25/21191604/watch-movies-friends-online-netflix-hulu-youtube-party-twoseven-metastream-amazon-hbo-scener https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/25/21191604/watch-movies-fri... Will have to add this to the list!

RangerScience 7y ago

Does this work with Chromecast? Netflix Party doesn't, and that's the main reason I don't use it.

l1am0 7y ago
No it does not, as there is no api for controling the playback on the chromecast

chx 7y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18123862 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18123862 is great. Really, really great. No idea why it's not more widely recognized or used.

freeqaz 7y ago
(also shilling) Another similar site (that a friend of mine built) is TeamFlix. He built it to stream with his brother and didn't find any alternatives (this was a few years ago now). https://teamflix.com/ https://teamflix.com/
- chx 7y ago
  I am not shilling, I found the site just yesterday after much effort in searching and I am usually pretty good at searching. Learning it was basically a family effort: my brother and I have been online since 1993 and he has a librarian degree and I am a software developer / hacker and this combo has led to much expertise. My brother is better -- he can search in languages he can't read or write. It's like a magic trick.
  - sah2ed 7y ago
    > he can search in languages he can't read or write. It's like a magic trick. Have you ever tried to suss out how he is able conduct web searches so effectively? Would be interested in what you learned.
Malankov 7y ago
Also Togethr.TV (https://togethr.tv https://togethr.tv). Created by me some years ago! People can watch videos together and chat (text/audio) and some other features.
- chx 7y ago
  The one about works with local files. For my purposes it's much better than YouTube.

polishdude20 7y ago

Can you easily add the ability to share screen or application so I can watch a video file with a friend?

AndrewKemendo 7y ago
I assume they avoided that on purpose due to copyright.
- l1am0 7y ago
  Yep. There are other services for that. (e.g. you could just use hangouts)
- efreak 7y ago
  I don't see how you could hold someone liable just for allowing you to screenshare. I think it'd be interesting to accept file-based input, and stream via webrtc.

tommy_mcclung 7y ago

I have a 15 year old and 13 year old at home, online with their friends basically passing the time in quarantine with Zoom on all day. I literally just told my 15 year old something like this needs to exist. Showing him now... he’s going to love it.

codpiece 7y ago

Sent it to my kids, thanks!

philsnow 7y ago

Feedback: I'd like a button that advances the 'start time' to "ASAP" -- I realize you're probably doing some NTP-like time syncing between clients, and "just start right now" maybe won't have everybody synced already, but if all my friends are already in the voice chat / already on the link, there's no need to wait for the appointed time. edit: alternatively since the URLs are hard to guess, you could have the creator of the watchparty specify a "auto-start ASAP after this many people have joined" number, so once Bob and Carol have joined, it just starts. Also, youtube ads are going to disrupt the synchronized start, since each person is going to see a different ad (or no ad), but I think you've said elsewhere in the thread that there's no way to get around this without requiring a browser extension.

l1am0 7y ago
Awesome! I love the "start after X people joined" idea. What you are currently seeing is the MVP. I plan to integrate websockets for the communication between clients. So you just can hit "start now" and it would start (or after X people joined the websocket channel). This will take some time, as it is a lot harded to get scalable as the current (static solution is. Yes, the youtube ads will be a problem that sadly can not be circumvented with my tech stack.

Waterluvian 7y ago

My favourite thing is watching stuff with thousands of people in chat. Like Bob Ross or Mr. Rogers. The culture that emerges is magical.

spaceprison 7y ago

Great idea! My wife was just doing this with a friend in st Louis over text.

tbrock 7y ago

There are a lot of these. A way to stand out would be to make it work with all the streaming gadgets like an Apple TV, roku stick or fire stick. Would be a killer app right now. Who watches a movie sitting at their computer?

l1am0 7y ago
Would love that as well, but it is really hard to support even only chromecast with my tech stack. For now I do not plan to support TV applications with Binge Together.

justlexi93 7y ago

This is will be fun since the lockdown is currently taking place all around the world.

geoffreyy 7y ago

similar to netflixparty.com except: - it also supports prime/youtube/vimeo - it has an audio/video chat instead of a simple text chat - it doesn't require a chrome extension - it doesn't actually sync across the viewers? (start time, play/pause) does it mean you can literally support other platforms without any integration?

LudwigNagasena 7y ago
>it doesn't actually sync across the viewers? (start time, play/pause) What is even the point then? It's litearlly the only feature I expect from such service.
- virtualmic 7y ago
  From the description on homepage: > Wait until the countdown hits zero and your movie night starts So it does sync across viewers (I haven't actually tried it yet).
  - l1am0 7y ago
    It syncs the start time. As it works without a browser extension I can not sync the actual movie as I do not get the information. What I am planing to do is to allow a later join into the movie night by calculating how much time has passed since the movie night start and then send the late attendee to that time code in the movie. Not supported by all services tough :/
- geoffreyy 7y ago
  I agree and that's why I pointed it out. you could literally just put any URL to any website and call it a party if there is no sync capabilities.
l1am0 7y ago
As written ion the page, it would be able to support any website on the internet, as it does a simple redirect to the website on countdown 0. What I want to provide is an auto start and a jump to timecode 0. All platforms that allow that via query parameters can be supported by binge together :D

corpMaverick 7y ago

It is not clear to me if everybody in the party needs to have netflix. (or whatever service was chosen)

l1am0 7y ago
Yes. Everyone needs to have an account and to be signed in.

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SubiculumCode 7y ago

I posted this link on my social media, and it got a fair bit of attention. Keep it up!

irjustin 7y ago

This is really interesting. A Seattle startup where I am friends with a number of the old staff: BuddyTv [0] It makes me sad that the idea didn't work out and in times other than this... it still won't work out. But it's glad to know there are times when this absolutely valued. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuddyTV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuddyTV

softwarejosh 7y ago

cool project reminds me of rabbit.tv

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moneywoes 7y ago

What did you use to build it?

l1am0 7y ago
From other comment: Stack is quite simple: Frontend: Bulma.css, Vanilla Javascript, HTML Backend: PHP, MariaDB It works by redirecting in the right moment to the streaming sites, via a JavaScript redirect. The voice chat is done via https://meet.jit.si/ https://meet.jit.si/ To handle potential big load, I force cloudflare to cache all sites under url /p/* thereby after the creation of the watch party, no request hits my server anymore :D

Hamuko 7y ago

There's https://syncplay.pl/ https://syncplay.pl/ for video files.

noeltock 7y ago

Any planned support for Plex? Thanks!

wrboyce 7y ago
There is a similar product for Plex, I think it is called SyncLounge. Yep: http://synclounge.tv/ http://synclounge.tv/

BiteCode_dev 7y ago

I'm still wondering how people manage to get bored in today's age. You have millions of journals, books, music tracks, tv shows, films and video games. You have tutorials on youtube to learn new skill, such as cooking, yoga, DIY, coding, etc. You can chat, phone or email to all your relatives and friends. You can take the opportunity to produce something, write, build, create, imagine. Even without a computer you can write or draw. You can take time for yourself, sleep more, meditate, rest, do things slowly. Please explain it to me, I genuinely don't understand.

tov_objorkin 7y ago
We're social animals, this is hardcoded part of our brain. Managing solitude require training as anything else.
- BiteCode_dev 7y ago
  Solitude and boredom is not the same. I understand solitude. You have a need. It's not fulfilled. I don't get boredom: I see so many ways to fulfill this need.
imtringued 7y ago
People were busy with other things than youtube or TVs. If you suddenly destroy their routine they will have to discover the internet for the first time.

randomlogin 7y ago

Thank you so much for this! I will spread the word and I'm sure it'll outlive the pandemic. I was waiting for someone (even Netflix) to do this the last couple of years for Valentine's day (as I realized I won't spend the time on building it myself). Being in a long distance relationship made me realize that this would be a fun way to nurture the relationship - watching the movie together, while apart.

NicoJuicy 7y ago

I would love it if https://web.microsoftstream.com/ https://web.microsoftstream.com/ could be added ( work related)

l1am0 7y ago
What is that? Can't even login
- JorgeGT 7y ago
  It's a corporate video sharing service in Office 365. Think Youtube for your company.
  - l1am0 7y ago
    If you would be able to share a login with me, than I could check if it can be included. Login could be send to office365bingewatching@simon-frey.com
    - NicoJuicy 7y ago
      It's my personal work email and has company videos on it. So I'm not able to share, sorry. What information would you need for it? nico@sapico.me

Hitton 7y ago

There are already dozens of such sites (just search for alternatives to Kast or Rabb.it), why should we use this one? Are there any advantages over competition?

l1am0 7y ago
e.g. Compared to Kast it works directly in the browser without any additional software

crimsonalucard 7y ago

Nice, also compatible with bit torrent.

amelius 7y ago

But what if you have Netflix and your buddies have HBO Now?

thatguyagain 7y ago

Really cool! How do you make the streams start the same time for everyone?

terminalcommand 7y ago
On the website it says that they figured out the autoplay feature on those sites. I imagine when the countdown ends, it enables the autoplay and the movie starts.

AnonC 7y ago

I personally don’t like people talking when watching a movie or a TV show. It’s fine if they exclaim or laugh or gasp depending on the situation (and not being too loud), but anything that’s some kind of speech or commentary makes me lose bits of what I’m watching and want to focus on. With streaming video, I can pause, rewind and then continue. But in this case, that would no longer be in sync with where the others are. The biggest advantage of streaming is being able to take breaks and continue at any point in time. I’m not sure how well this platform would work if there are many people and each one decides to take a break at a separate time (making others wait if they wish to be somewhat in sync). This may work better if participants pre-decide how many breaks will be taken and approximately at what times or points.

dhimes 7y ago
It would be fun for stupid stuff though that doesn't really matter- you and your friends could chat and make fun of it MST3k style.
- klondike_klive 7y ago
  Some friends and I have started doing this with terrible movies, straight-to-DVD Steven Seagal/Nicolas Cage style stuff. Problem is we're all starting the movie at very slightly different times, like within 15 seconds but still sometimes hard to guess what people are referencing. Oh, and we don't use voice chat, it's just Whatsapp. I personally wouldn't feel comfortable piping up in a group of ten or twelve, some of whom I haven't met, I much prefer typing a joke, and am a fast enough typist that I'm not too much behind the action I'm writing about.

l1am0 7y ago

Now bingetogether.com has multi language support :D

lukeplato 7y ago

the app is a 3rd party voice chat with a URL link and a countdown, I'm surprised it's so popular tbh

jmckib 7y ago

I couldn't get it to work. When I click "Join movie party" it just opens another tab of the party page with a timestamp in the url. Also there appears to be a timezone issue? I have to input a time an hour ahead of what I actually want.

l1am0 7y ago
Was that a youtube link? That is fixed now. Still working on the timezone. Some browsers are doing problems here. If the problem still persists, would you be so kind and sending me a screencast on how the site behaves to: bingetogether@simon-frey.eu Thanks so much!

lsv1 7y ago

You should get Google Analytics installed, and AdSense ads... at the least.

l1am0 7y ago
No I do not want analytics. I use the privacy friendly matomo for that. Ads are planed, but I would like to go with another path than google as well. Maybe some movie sponsors :D

ganessh 7y ago

I am not able to create an URL. Is it down?