RTC Roulette – like Chat Roulette but uses WebRTC

http://blog.twelephone.com/post/54269654299/webrtc-chat-roulette

by cmatthieu • 13 years ago

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arcameron• 13 years ago

Looks pretty cool :)

We recently added WebRTC to echoplexus https://chat.echoplex.us/ https://github.com/qq99/echoplexus

claudod• 13 years ago

Similar application (more game oriented) released few weeks ago for the Jamendo Apps Contest: http://developer.jamendo.com/v3.0/app/4

sciurus2• 13 years ago

It's great to see cool stuff being built on Phono! I'm not a javascript developer by any means, but when I tried to write a few voice and text chat demos, Phono made it a piece of cake. I didn't play with the WebRTC support, but I see it keeps improving at a rapid pace, e.g. http://blog.phono.com/2013/02/05/phono-0-6-is-here-with-webr... and http://blog.phono.com/2013/06/25/phono-now-with-firefox-and-...

(Full disclosure: I used to work for Voxeo Labs)

brokenparser• 13 years ago

Looks neat but it's taking forever for someone else to join.

mmvvaa• 13 years ago

Same here. cmatthieu, what use do you want to give to this?

sippndipp• 13 years ago

Hehe... It's trending on HN, but no one picks up the phone. Trying it for 3 minutes :-)

fycth• 13 years ago

Similar project on Erlang: http://www.webrtcexample.com

Source codes: https://github.com/fycth/webrtcexample

tocomment• 13 years ago

So could something like this replace Skype someday?

frik3• 13 years ago

yes. but Microsoft has proposed a different protocol that is based on Skype technology ideas: http://html5labs.interoperabilitybridges.com/cu-rtc-web/cu-r...

Google and Mozilla are pushing the WebRTC: http://www.webrtc.org/

josh2600• 13 years ago

Skype has two things WebRTC lacks:

A directory

And

Signaling

Without those things it's hard to compete with Skype or the PSTN.

untog• 13 years ago

Yes, I find it much better to have my business meetings conducted with surprise strangers added.

cmatthieu9• 13 years ago

Yes, checkout http://twelephone.com from the same guys who wrote RTC Roulette. It's WebRTC-powered skype clone which attaches to Twitter for the user directory.

frik3• 13 years ago

nice.

a bit offtopic: I am searching for a WebRTC server stack for Node.js or PHP (libevent). I would like to host the STUN, ICE handling on my own server. The only project I found that supports recent WebRTC API changes is https://github.com/priologic/easyrtc . Has someone tried it on a production environment, are there maybe better alternatives?

DrJokepu• 13 years ago

I have never used it but I've seen it demoed at the most recent London Node.js User Group meeting and it was pretty impressive: https://github.com/malditogeek/vmux

contrahax• 13 years ago

https://github.com/wearefractal/holla

cmatthieu9• 13 years ago

RTC Roulette was built with Phono v1.1 with WebRTC and SIP support - http://blog.phono.com/2013/06/25/phono-now-with-firefox-and-...

frik3• 13 years ago

Phono says "Sign Up for an API Key". It's a service, they provide just an SDK.

I am searching for open source alternatives that allow me to install the whole WebRTC server software part on my own server. (for Node.js or PHP + libevent)

unimpressive2• 13 years ago

Has anybody gotten this to work yet? (The comments below imply nobody has.)

EDIT: Yeah it works, just keep pressing "roulette".

FEATURE REQUEST: I would really like a mic testing function. I can't tell if it's working or not.

idrinkmusic3• 13 years ago

Yea, I just talked to someone in Lithuania! It was exciting to see someone that read hacker news as I know no other person who reads it too.

That was my only successful attempt. Now I keep trying but the call doesn't go through.

flixic2• 13 years ago

Hello, that was me!

cmatthieu9• 13 years ago

I just talked to someone in France from San Francisco #HDvideo #HDaudio #p2p #secure #awesome

flixic2• 13 years ago

Just had a chat, so it definitely works! Text chat area is missing, but otherwise impressive.

Also, right now it's probably 90% HN users, that's a very interesting crowd to meet randomly.

idrinkmusic3• 13 years ago

Yea, missing text chat but I'm glad someone did something like this.

reledi• 13 years ago

Impressive for a quick hack. Will you be polishing it?

cmatthieu9• 13 years ago

Yes, please tweet bug reports and feature ideas to http://twitter.com/rtcroulette or send us pull requests at https://github.com/twelephone/rtcroulette

randyrand• 13 years ago

Well, now I have to put on a shirt.

moomin• 13 years ago

Like ChatRoulette, only you always get connected to someone with an interest in nascent web standards.

unimpressive2• 13 years ago

I would pay money to have a chatroulette/omegle/etc that matched me up with people I'd actually like to talk to.

cmatthieu9• 13 years ago

Stay tuned for an Expert Directory coming soon from Twelephone (http://twelephone.com)

aznjons• 13 years ago

I am working on this problem. Feel free to contact me; my email is in my profile if you are interested in talking about it.

cmatthieu9• 13 years ago

Thanks for your kind words! I wrote this app in approximately 6 hours using Node.JS while at NodeConf. I do plan to improve upon it and welcome pull requests. The code is available at https://github.com/twelephone/rtcroulette

tracker1• 13 years ago

Can't wait for the next nodeaz meetup... would be cool to get a demo on the use of domains...

nickcolley• 13 years ago

Any reason why the aspect ratio is off?

cmatthieu9• 13 years ago

Yea, I'm stretching the remote video element. We could use a designer's help to pretty this app up. The code is on GitHub at https://github.com/twelephone/rtcroulette

cmatthieu9• 13 years ago

Just fixed the stretch issue.

Caligula• 13 years ago

Is it possible to try without twitter login?

sciurus2• 13 years ago

RTC Roulette doesn't ask for a twitter login.

Kilo-byte• 13 years ago

Stuck at "Wait for someone else to join."

RTC Roulette – like Chat Roulette but uses WebRTC

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