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Show HN: hackernews.roundtable.audio turns HN posts into live audio
discussions
Author : sethkim
Score : 21 points
Date : 2021-04-18 22:01 UTC (59 minutes ago)
(HTM) web link (hackernews.roundtable.audio)
(TXT) w3m dump (hackernews.roundtable.audio)
| suyash wrote:
| cool idea but audio conversations don't scale as well as text. In
| audio we noticed one has to hear other person speak, where as in
| text multiple people can start and comment on threads at the same
| time.
| zeeshanqureshi wrote:
| This is awesome! If there was audio to text or transcripts it
| would make it better.
| axiosgunnar wrote:
| looks like we have crashed the server :-)
| sethkim wrote:
| yeah sorry about that! Didn't expect that much traffic. Will
| try to have it up as soon as I can!
| sss111 wrote:
| Looks like the site crashed
| donpark wrote:
| yup. no websocket connection.
| mhh__ wrote:
| That's fun, nice idea
| sethkim wrote:
| Thanks!
| CyberRabbi wrote:
| I was sincerely hoping this converted text comments into audio.
| Cool idea anyway.
| sethkim wrote:
| tl;dr: come talk to me about this project which turns HN posts
| (like this one) into live audio discussions at this link (very
| meta - I know!): https://hackernews.roundtable.audio/live/show-
| hn-hacker-news...
|
| I'm Seth, creator of roundtable.audio (formerly discourse.fm), a
| web app for hosting live, unmoderated audio discussions.
|
| I recently created an extension to the site
| (hackernews.roundtable.audio) which pulls stories in real-time
| from HN and gives folks the ability to drop into a live audio
| discussions rather than comment threads. You can then post the
| link back to the comments on the actual HN story to invite others
| to jump into the discussion. This isn't meant to compete with HN
| comment threads, but rather extend them in a new and useful way.
| You can see the original post I made about it here -
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26096634.
|
| I'm reposting because I wanted to share updates about the
| project, give this a little more visibility to interested folks,
| and I messed up posting last time (didn't include the URL with
| the title - oops).
|
| The most notable update is that I open-sourced the code for the
| project which you can find here:
| https://github.com/sethkimmel3/roundtable.audio (and renamed it,
| too). In short, I'd like to see roundtable.audio provide the
| ability to turn content on any site with highly synchronous text-
| based content into live audio discussions. This includes sites
| like Twitter (see https://twitter.com/RoundtableBot), Hacker News
| (this post), Reddit, blogs, news sites, and more. If you like
| WebRTC and modern web apps, this could be a great project to hack
| on, and I'm excited to have community contributions!
|
| Why this project? I think live audio (relative to text) decreases
| political polarization while increasing engagement,
| vulnerability, and serendipity. We can often learn so much more
| by talking to one another than hiding behind a keyboard. And in
| general, we can learn more from conversations that are pegged to
| some interesting topic.
|
| I'll be in the roundtable for this HN story for the next few
| hours: https://hackernews.roundtable.audio/live/show-hn-hacker-
| news...
|
| Come pop in and tell me what you think!
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