Show HN: Chatible – Anonymously Chat with Strangers in Facebook Messenger

http://www.chatible.io/

by zaytoun • 10 years ago

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zaytoun5• 10 years ago

Hey HN, Chatible is a project I've been working on this past week. I wanted to explore the idea of using bots to connect humans together. I'd love any feedback.

andrewclunn2• 10 years ago

A couple quick questions:

Does it require a Facebook account to use?

If so are my chats stored for later reference?

Is it text only?

Is it regional for connections, so I won't be paired with somebody from a different country?

zaytoun5• 10 years ago

1) It requires a Messenger account. (I believe FB decoupled FB and Messenger recently)

2) We don't store any messages on our backend.

3) We support text and stickers.

4) It's not regional. We pair you with random people throughout the world. However, if there's a demand for regional pairing, we will explore that as well.

progval• 10 years ago

There is an issue wth the images' size: they are very big, which makes the home page hard to read.

https://i.imgur.com/wYLfxXI.png

zaytoun5• 10 years ago

Oops, let me check that out. Thanks for letting me know.

overcast• 10 years ago

Neat, though I fear you've created an easy way for spammers to "connect" with people anonymously. How do you plan on dealing with bots using your bot?

zaytoun5• 10 years ago

Yeah, that's a reasonable concern. We haven't yet implemented anything to avoid spam, but that has been on our todo list. We have been thinking about giving users the ability to flag an account after their conversation ends. Maybe implement some sort of penalty system.

vortico2• 10 years ago

It's somewhat difficult to create tons of new Facebook accounts, so you can ride off this perk of Facebook to handle spam yourself. Flagging conversations is a good idea, so after three or so flags, you can automatically ban the account, and I think that would auffice.

ruler88• 10 years ago

It'd be interesting if you could connect humans who share an interest together. I feel like platform need to direct and steer the human conversations.

zaytoun5• 10 years ago

Yeah, I agree. We've already implemented that functionality, but right now we're brainstorming ways to roll it out without clunky UI. We want to keep it extremely simple to use for now.

iamdave2• 10 years ago

Share this dev approach with Facebook proper and MAYBE I'll come back to the site.

jswny• 10 years ago

You mean like Omegle without the dicks?

justinlardinois2• 10 years ago

So basically Omegle, but implemented on Facebook?

maxpert• 10 years ago

Not exactly :P Omegle had some chat servers of it's own but this one doesn't even need that :P it just has to relay messages hiding info

vortico2• 10 years ago

I'm surprised how easy it is to set up, since I already have the Facebook Messenger app on my mobile device. I actually thought it was am official Facebook service for a minute.

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