[HN Gopher] Show HN: Elevator party - An interactive small talk ... ___________________________________________________________________ Show HN: Elevator party - An interactive small talk experience Author : boriskourt Score : 42 points Date : 2020-04-11 15:04 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (elevatorparty.chat) (TXT) w3m dump (elevatorparty.chat) | boriskourt wrote: | Hello HN, | | This is a tiny little thing that me and a frequent collaborator | [0] wanted to express in these challenging times. What if people | miss something as awkward and forgettable as elevator small talk? | | Right now, there are virtual places where we can meet, | collaborate, do yoga, talk about books, watch content together, | and rave. This virtual space gives you an analog that is a little | more from the daily _inbetween_ times. | | After long days of video calls at work, we ended up doing more | video calls each evening to get this wrapped up. Overall this | small concept took four weeks to finish. In the process I | primarily learned that there have been notches in screens for a | few years now. | | The whole thing is built with Clojure and ClojureScript. And | largely leveraged Sente [1], a wonderful front+back end WebSocket | story. The characters are customized from the amazing Open Peeps | library [2]. And there is some more info in the (?) on the | website for the curious. | | I am curious about what this community thinks about little, | possibly zen, distractions like this? | | [0]: https://ameliedinh.com/ | | [1]: https://github.com/ptaoussanis/sente | | [2]: https://www.openpeeps.com/ | codeulike wrote: | Nice idea. | | The fact that some of the people have no eyes and a weird sort of | eye thing for a nose is confusing. | | Also there are too many people in the elevator for the necessary | awkward silence between comments. | | After a certain amount of small talk you should get awarded the | opportunity to actually choose what to say. Thats kindof how it | works IRL. | boriskourt wrote: | It's definitely receiving slightly more traffic than usual | right now ;) | FailMore wrote: | Fun, it would be nice to have less people per room as right now | it's very crowded (on mobile) | boriskourt wrote: | It's actually a 'single shard' universe. (Sorry bad EVE joke) | But yes, its a bit stuffy in there right now! | throwanem wrote: | What's that smell? | | (Seriously, this is adorable. Great work!) | boriskourt wrote: | Thank you! Really glad you liked it! | xwdv wrote: | This is pretty cool, I'd love to see similar things like this. | peschu wrote: | why would you like to see more? | | tbh I don't get the point of this...it's boring and useless(for | me)... it's nice project for learning or demonstrating the | technical aspects behind it... ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-04-12 23:00 UTC)