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       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...
        
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