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Show HN: The Gives – Watch videos with friends
- dutzi_ 6y agoThe platform lets you search for YouTube videos, once clicking on a video, the app creates a room, whoever joins this room will watch that video in sync with you, while both parties are video chatting. https://imgur.com/qrtyVzc https://imgur.com/qrtyVzc https://imgur.com/E8VxkOl https://imgur.com/E8VxkOl
- Thaxll 6y agoIt's dead jim.
- dutzi_ 6y ago:(
- dutzi_ 6y agoI've exceeded YouTube's quota. I've placed a fixture with preloaded results of John Oliver clips instead. Sorry about that. I'll try working with YouTube on getting this sorted out.
- hoistbypetard 6y agoWould you be comfortable posting the source, so that others could host their own copy with their own API keys?
- dafran 6y agoAlternative desktop app: https://syncplay.pl/ https://syncplay.pl/
- ckugblenu 6y agoRave.io is an alternative that really impressed me. With features like watching videos with friends on Gdrive
- CydeWeys 6y agoI don't understand the name of the site? "The Gives"? That's just ungrammatical.
- dutzi_ 6y agoYeah, but I liked the domain, it reminded me of 60's rock bands I like.
- CydeWeys 6y agoYeah, but those rock band names are at least grammatical. They're of the form "The {Noun}s", not "The {conjugation of verb}".
- aidos 6y agoThe The?
- jchw 6y agoGive is certainly a noun. As in, “the mechanism has some give.” > the quality or state of being resilient; springiness. Whether it makes sense to pluralize it.. well, no. But hey.
- CydeWeys 6y agoAnd if the name was "The Give" I wouldn't have quite as much of a problem with it, though that's still not a great name, especially in this context.
- dutzi_ 6y agoMost domains are just made up words, so...
- CydeWeys 6y agoI'm trying to tell you that I don't think the name "The Gives" is very good, and I don't think I'm alone in that opinion. Do with that information what you will, but my advice in response to your "Show HN" is to pick a better name (and correspondingly, domain name).
- ummonk 6y agoShoutout to Jitsi, which allows you to add a YouTube video to a group video call which auto plays for everyone.
- vutekst 6y agoAlas, this feature only works for users on the browser app, and not in the mobile apps.
- interestica 6y agoYes. I'd love if the mobile version would kill the users video feeds and keep audio even just to have the synced YouTube video. Or text chat only for mobile? Any kind of graceful reduction.