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Re:Show HN: Audio Chat for the Web on Thursday February 25, 2021 @03:59PM (#26268242)
Developer here,

I have build this simple static website that uses speex codec to sent small pieces of audio over websocket.

For now it is websocket, but moving to a more distributed environment to avoid single point of failure.

Having audio glitches when audio is playing due to the small pieces being sent and stitched together. So if you know more about this feel free to contribute.

Also working on making the audio encrypted and locking rooms for more privacy.

One of the developers here. Almost a year ago our we started a team to work on decentralizing the video conference game. And today we release a slimmed down version of our work a P2P version.

We release this version for anyone to fork it and get started in less than 5 minutes. You can slap a logo on it and change the colors. In less than 5 minutes you run a customized version that you can use for family/friends or for you business to call with clients/customers with you own logo.

Everything is working directly in the browser no install needed even on mobile devices. Also there is no tracking or cookies used. It's the cleanest and quickest personalized video conference tool you have seen on the web.

Give it a try at: https://github.com/meething/meething-mesh

Support us via Github with stars and forks and see the readme to get in contact with us.

We hope you enjoy and appreciate our work. And we want to hear from you what you have done with it. You can get featured on the Github as well in our used by section.

Re:Show HN: Crapy work in progress decentralised streaming on Friday December 11, 2020 @12:22PM (#25388167)
Developer here:

Yeah I know there is no audio, but there is captions :) generated from the audio. Supporting the people with hearing disabilities.

Some info: I am trying to solve the issue that streaming requires big central servers and lots of bandwidth. My opinion is that with todays technology that is not needed.

Tech info: - Gun to distribute decentralised the video pieces (working on audio)

- Standard capture of usermedia

- webkitSpeechRecognition to send text instead of audio and display on videos

- Cross browser support stream and view

- Low quality on purpose working on this to increase

- Canvas capture sending webP images.

- Possibile todo webm with great quality but is not cross browser support

Let me know what you think and feel free to ask questions. If someone knows how to split audio in chunks and sent it and replay without too much hickups let me know. I have tried different approaches.

Also I streaming an example video click the first streamer video in the table below

Re:Show HN: MediaRecorder Power Up on Thursday June 18, 2020 @07:27AM (#23562028)
Hi developer here,

I made this small library because I need to switch audio/video tracks while using MediaRecorder.

Normally changing srcObject will stop the MediaRecorder now it wont stop and you can easily change video/audio during recording.

Feel free to comment or improve. All questions are welcome

fun fact :+1:
Thanks glad you like it, I am having some fun as well as people join and make noises. Whistling is something people like to do. Maybe start a whistle channel :)
Developer here,

Press and hold the button or press and hold spacebar and talk.

you can change channels by change the #gun to something else such as #cows or #monkeys

It is works via the decentralized database https://gun.eco/

The app is not keeping full conversation. Feel free to ask any questions.

Have fun! usage is unlimited!

There are a few constraints:

- Chrome based browser

- Need a microphone

- Give permission for screencast and microphone

- Someone has to stream on the same username as you are viewing

- Indeed no devices is not throwing an error. Handling happy cases only at the moment.

To bad the viewer side did not work. Probably because after an hour I stopped streaming and there was actually not to show for anymore. Feel free to let me know if you want to give it another try and we set a day and time.

To elaborate a bit about the tech. De site is plain html and plain javascript. No node server just a heroku instance that host the GUN instance.

The website itself is very simple and uses MediaSource Extension https://www.w3.org/TR/media-source/ to make the streaming go smooth. This is often used by players that use dynamic bitrates for different network etc.. Such as HLS, Shaka player.

This is all brought together in this project. Webrtc is only used for getting the screen and microphone. There is no signaling stun server etc needed for this to work.

I have to come back to you about finding the IP address. I am not sure about this. Will ask the GUN community. Maybe you can explain why this case is interesting and for which cases?

Hey thanks for your interest. It is not using webrtc it is using GUN decentralized database see https://gun.eco/ and some custom implementation to able to stream
For anyone who wants to stream, go to http://livecodestream.com and you can start a stream there. Enjoy!!
Hi developer here, please leave any comments below and I try to answer them a.s.a.p.

Thanks

Edit-- Stream has been ended. Contact me if you are interested in another stream.

Re:Show HN: Birthbook – Never forget birthdays again on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @05:17PM (#17973449)
Thanks for all feedback. I made really good progress with all the feedback I got. :+1:
Re:Show HN: Birthbook – Never forget birthdays again on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @09:07AM (#17968210)
Hi,

thanks for the feedback. I have adjusted the FAQ to have it left aligned.

Glad you like the logo, it is now quite all over the place so I am looking into making a standard position based on space. Will look into thicken the lines, but personally I like to have it as "unnoticeable" as possible but on the other hand it is the identifier of the product so have to check.

Thanks

Re:Show HN: Birthbook – Never forget birthdays again on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @02:57PM (#17962314)
Thanks,

https I am looking into that indeed, how that works with my hosting etc...

The year make sense to leave out and will look into changing that.

The FAQ, missed this update :), thanks for the note. Will improve that and fix the typo.

Thanks for the feedback

Re:Show HN: Birthbook – Never forget birthdays again on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @02:32PM (#17962162)
Hi All,

Developer here. I did some major changes and I hope that the updated version will help you better.

- No more email required

- View back the collected birthdays directly

Feel free to leave feedback everything is appreciated.

Hi all,

developer here. I created a website to collect birthday for friends and family.

How it works: Create a calendar from the homepage. Then after submit you will get a link that you can share with friends and family. After a week we will send a csv file that you can import into your calendar.

Why I created this? I created this to ease the pain to got through manual collecting of birthdays. Normally I would ask or someone tells me but I forget to add it or its to much effort to add this. The link is valid for always so you can reuse it if you get a new family member or friend.

Hope I can help some people out to ease the pain of collecting birthdays.

Feel free to post any feedback or ask questions looking forward to it. Currently the website is very basic, but will look into making it better but the functional it works.

Re:Show HN: KOrs – How to Bike Like an Amsterdammer on Friday June 08, 2018 @02:02PM (#17268069)
Thanks for the Feedback -

I made the color of the FAQ black so that should easier to find and also did some addition in the FAQ as you suggested.

The phone number placeholder, is not changeable at the moment but will take that with me

Re:Show HN: KOrs – How to Bike Like an Amsterdammer on Friday June 08, 2018 @01:11PM (#17267533)
Hi developer here, I am looking for some valuable feedback. So feel free to open the discussion.

First time I am using landen.co saved me a ton of time to launch the MVP.

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