[HN Gopher] Show HN: Kosmi - Hang out with friends and family on...
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Show HN: Kosmi - Hang out with friends and family online
Author : hauxir
Score : 124 points
Date : 2020-03-14 17:30 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| o_____________o wrote:
| Nice work! How are things working so far on iPads?
|
| - "Create a room" should be actionable on the sidebar
|
| - Don't know how niche this is these days, but I would love to
| see Freeze Tag supported in Arena:
| https://openarena.fandom.com/wiki/ModCompat/Ultra_Freeze
| sitzkrieg wrote:
| this could get extremely popular as a rabb.it replacement
| jujodi wrote:
| I noticed your contact is in a discord channel and my first
| thought was how this is differentiated from discord. If people
| are actually contacting you on discord and this is "installation
| free", why not make that contact via your own service?
| hauxir wrote:
| Good point. the only reason i list discord as a contact is
| because my platform doesn't offer private messages yet.
|
| For anything that doesn't need to be private you can simply ask
| around on the public chat on the platform :)
| mstade wrote:
| Looks slick, seems to work real well on mobile too. Good work!
|
| I noticed when creating a private room there's no auth, would it
| be possible to have something simple even like a shared password
| so you need something more than just the link to join? Also would
| it be possible to make it request audio and/or video access by
| default when joining, rather than making it a user action?
| fastball wrote:
| What's wrong with a link and no password?
|
| Seems like the rooms are meant to be fairly disposable, so any
| situation where you would normally "change the room password",
| you instead just change rooms.
| Yoda1919 wrote:
| I love it!
| Yoda1919 wrote:
| I LOVE IT!
| petra wrote:
| Thanks. This looks cool.
|
| A question: when trying to play SNES games, it requires an .sfc
| file. This is for japanese games for the SNES.
|
| Is is possible to make it run .smc files ? those are american
| versions, much easier to find, with english text by default.
| hauxir wrote:
| smc files work too :)
| jchw wrote:
| SFC and SMC files are usually identical. It's just a different
| choice in file extension.
|
| "SMC" comes from Super MagiCom, a floppy-based cart copying
| device for backup/piracy. The original .smc files produced by
| the device contained a 512 byte header. Since it's pretty easy
| to detect and ignore most emulators do. If not, it's easily
| removed.
|
| Because .smc is in reference to effectively a piracy device,
| the new preferred file extension is .sfc and has been for a
| while now.
|
| (In case it is not obvious, the file format is nominally just a
| raw dump of the ROM on the cartridge with no added headers.)
|
| (Note 2: if you are looking for a way to run
| homebrew/patches/etc on a real SNES/SFC nowadays, sd2snes is
| probably the absolute best option.)
| aspaceman wrote:
| You can open up the two files in a Hex editor. If there's any
| differences it'll only be in the header which is a quick fix.
| nsarafa wrote:
| This is great. Been looking for a way to create a "virtual water
| cooler" for our team as we move 40+ people remote. Does the room
| always exist, and people can hop in and out? What's the business
| model? IE how can we pay for the service/support the mission?
| shripadk wrote:
| Love this! Especially the fact that you can launch an OpenArena
| server so easily! Played a lot of Quake 3 Arena during my college
| days. Hadn't heard of OpenArena before. Thanks!
|
| EDIT: Is there a way to store and load a config file? Or have the
| binds stored permanently?
| hauxir wrote:
| Thank you! Unfortunately the config file is not
| export/importable right now but I might add support for that
| later!
| ninguem2 wrote:
| Are you planning any features to help with online teaching (e.g.
| whiteboard support)?
| vikramkr wrote:
| This is pretty cool - I'm wondering what like, makes it different
| than just having a zoom call or something on discord? I can tell
| it's different I just don't know how to articulate it and I'm
| curious how you'd differentiate it from other ways to hang out
| online?
|
| Looks really cool!
| hombre_fatal wrote:
| I was surprised that even public rooms require a request to join
| from the lobby page. Though I also know that direct room links do
| let you in to the channel which is what you'd be passing around
| to your friends.
|
| And I was also surprised that when someone sends me a join
| request, it completely blots my screen out with a modal. Seems
| like this would be very annoying if you were actually running a
| channel. I think that needs some attention. For example, am I
| ruining someone's experience by constantly sending them join
| requests?
|
| Online hangout was always a dream of mine ever since my friends
| and I used socks to tie the home phone around our heads so we
| could talk while playing Unreal Tournament online together.
| Always cool to see people trying to work on this.
| pelasaco wrote:
| pretty cool, but I'm sure people will use it to the bad as all
| other similar apps..
| hauxir wrote:
| Been developing this platform for over a year.
|
| It allows you to create virtual rooms where you can chat with
| room members using webcam and microphone and run realtime apps
| that include:
|
| - Screensharing(useful for e.g. Netflix)
|
| - Cowatching video player
|
| - SNES and NES Emulators
|
| - Virtual cardtable
|
| - Poker with Playmoney
|
| - Quake 3 in-browser!
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| - Synced YouTube player
|
| and many more coming.
| jawns wrote:
| I would love to know the legal implications of running a
| service where people are able to stream copyrighted content to
| others, or to share subscription services like Netflix in
| violation of its TOS.
| tyrust wrote:
| This is like every other service that supports screen
| sharing, is it not?
| giovannylira wrote:
| I thought services like this ran in a legal limbo because the
| end user can't select the content, much like radio.
| doorbellguy wrote:
| I think that's a really nice concept, and quite possibly a good
| time to bring this to our notice whenever most of us are home
| bound. Do you plan on adding more features in the features?
| etherio wrote:
| You released it at th3 right time.
| arendtio wrote:
| I like that I don't need to register first.
| lucb1e wrote:
| OpenArena! <3 It didn't work for me (something about the v6
| address not resolving, and then a stream of 'connection reset
| by peer' msgs in the OA console; too bad it has to be in-
| browser and I can't just launch my native client) but I love
| that this is a thing, it's one of my favorite games ever.
|
| Edit: NES games also don't work for me, I keep seeing "Load a
| ROM file to play a NES game!" but others in the room are
| playing. Firefox on Linux, this is. Can I register a ticket
| somewhere or are there debugging tips I could try myself?
| djhaskin987 wrote:
| Just what the doctor ordered, bless you sir.
| sparklepwny wrote:
| awesome work!
|
| how are you funding this? what are the backend requirements on
| your part to run this site?
| zinasaurus wrote:
| This platform has been developing beautifully. Everything works
| smoothly and if we have any suggestions hauxir listens and
| implements them very fast. I'm loyal to this platform, I've tried
| many and this is surely the best.
| robbrown451 wrote:
| This is cool, I'm especially interested in YouTube synching so I
| can share videos with my daughter when she is at her moms. Also
| so she can chat with her friends while school is canceled and
| they can watch stuff together. (hopefully being able to talk to
| each other too?)
|
| Anybody who's interested in testing it with me, go to
| https://app.kosmi.io/room/4nxurg
| pfranz wrote:
| I'm surprised I haven't seen this before (or if it's been
| around, it hasn't been more popular). In person you often show
| people videos and via podcasts I often hear people haphazardly
| trying to play videos simultaneously.
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