Show HN: I made a chat roulette for remote workers

Re:Show HN: I made a chat roulette for remote workers by Disruptive_Dave on Friday March 13, 2020 @03:37PM (#22570238)

Oh man, we did this (MVP style) about 6 years ago, called it Collabo. Tested it with a Facebook group, then we manually connected random people together and scheduled them video chats. We called it "the water cooler for solopreneurs." Really just a fun experiment more than a business. Happy to share whatever learnings I can dig up.

Edit: Just found the homepage mock. "A first-of-its-kind virtual water cooler for freelancers and solopreneurs." It was invite only, too. At least at the start.

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Re:Show HN: I made a chat roulette for remote workers by cedricium on Friday March 13, 2020 @05:52PM (#22571189)

Sounds interesting! I, too, would like to know why you didn't continue with this. Also:

> scheduled them video chats

Does a service exist where you can programmatically schedule a video-chat/meeting for two parties?

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Re:Show HN: I made a chat roulette for remote workers by azhenley on Friday March 13, 2020 @05:11PM (#22570913)

What happened with it? Why didn't you continue with the concept?

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Re:Show HN: I made a chat roulette for remote workers by Disruptive_Dave on Sunday March 15, 2020 @12:51PM (#22584503)

Bunch of reasons - never intended to do anything other than have fun with it, co-founded another startup that ended up catching a little fire, and finally, it was just me (marketer) and a designer doing this. Would love to see it work, though.

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