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Ask HN: what do you think of my chat app?

10 points by th0ma5 18y ago

http://270rule.appspot.com/ is anonymous live chat for any page, plus a feed of who is chatting where. no login, bbcode, and some embedding are supported. let me know what you think! thank you hn!!!!

th0ma5 18y ago
sorry to interact with the service, use the bookmarklet on the main page while browsing any other page
jackowayed 18y ago
It's pretty cool. I'm using it on this page right now. Your home site needs a little work. The links sometimes collide with the text. It also would be good to add some kind of description on the home page. Even just putting "Anonymous Chat for Any Page" right below the big "270rule" would be a step up. Also, it would be nice if it would highlight what I've posted (even if it's only temporary, going away after a refresh) so that I can quickly see which messages are "new" (as in came later than the last thing I've said). Also, I did eventually find the close link on my own, but it's not at all obvious. You can put "270 rule" somewhere else, but you really want to tell people that that link closes it. And if you can find a way not to allow people to open it several times on the same page (Try clicking the bookmarklet several times and see what happens.) that would be cool.
fadmmatt 18y ago
Done: http://www.yaplet.com/ http://www.yaplet.com/
- th0ma5 18y ago
  nice way she handles a lot of things there. i like the way usernames on the chat are handled. interesting use of frames too
jackowayed 18y ago
Looks like you're having issues w/ the quotas already. I just got a 403 Over Quota. Refresh fixed, but still.
sanj 18y ago
http://talkinator.com/ http://talkinator.com/
tocomment 18y ago
Whatever happened to circle of chat/conversation (I forget the exact name :-( That was a nice one. This one sounds cool too, I'll check it out later.
jonursenbach 18y ago
Needs a lot of work, to say the least.
safetytrick 18y ago
I tried out the Hot right now link, should this show active yaplet chats across the web? I can't see myself checking pages to see if they have open chats (I'm sure the plan is to use a link rather than check each page) Maybe a browser plugin could alert me if other yaplet users are chatting or visiting pages I am browsing?
poops 18y ago
here's another with dynamic room names http://yamr.net/hacker_news http://yamr.net/hacker_news

10 points by th0ma5 18y ago

http://270rule.appspot.com/ is anonymous live chat for any page, plus a feed of who is chatting where. no login, bbcode, and some embedding are supported. let me know what you think! thank you hn!!!!

th0ma5 18y ago

sorry to interact with the service, use the bookmarklet on the main page while browsing any other page

jackowayed 18y ago

It's pretty cool. I'm using it on this page right now. Your home site needs a little work. The links sometimes collide with the text. It also would be good to add some kind of description on the home page. Even just putting "Anonymous Chat for Any Page" right below the big "270rule" would be a step up. Also, it would be nice if it would highlight what I've posted (even if it's only temporary, going away after a refresh) so that I can quickly see which messages are "new" (as in came later than the last thing I've said). Also, I did eventually find the close link on my own, but it's not at all obvious. You can put "270 rule" somewhere else, but you really want to tell people that that link closes it. And if you can find a way not to allow people to open it several times on the same page (Try clicking the bookmarklet several times and see what happens.) that would be cool.

fadmmatt 18y ago

Done: http://www.yaplet.com/ http://www.yaplet.com/

th0ma5 18y ago
nice way she handles a lot of things there. i like the way usernames on the chat are handled. interesting use of frames too

jackowayed 18y ago

Looks like you're having issues w/ the quotas already. I just got a 403 Over Quota. Refresh fixed, but still.

sanj 18y ago

http://talkinator.com/ http://talkinator.com/

tocomment 18y ago

Whatever happened to circle of chat/conversation (I forget the exact name :-( That was a nice one. This one sounds cool too, I'll check it out later.

jonursenbach 18y ago

Needs a lot of work, to say the least.

safetytrick 18y ago

I tried out the Hot right now link, should this show active yaplet chats across the web? I can't see myself checking pages to see if they have open chats (I'm sure the plan is to use a link rather than check each page) Maybe a browser plugin could alert me if other yaplet users are chatting or visiting pages I am browsing?

poops 18y ago

here's another with dynamic room names http://yamr.net/hacker_news http://yamr.net/hacker_news