Facelette: Chat Roulette for FaceTime(facelette.com)

119 pointsby mojombo16 anni fa27 comments

http://facelette.com/

28 comments

holman16 anni fa

For what it's worth, I whipped this up in about an hour. It just keeps track of who's actively looking for a FaceTime hookup and grabs one.

Coincidentally, this entire app is dumb as hell. I love it so much.

mkramlich16 anni fa

I predict a $50 million buyout offer by the end of the week. :)

X-Istence16 anni fa

This brought a smile to my face! It is awesome that someone took the time to quickly whip something up!

dotBen16 anni fa

Needs it's own email validation system otherwise you just type in crap and harvest the email addresses.

I would use FB Connect to validate the user, show a profile pic, and create a less anarchic community compared to (chatroulette)

kneath16 anni fa

I can definitely see why you'd need a profile picture when you're about to randomly video chat with someone's face.

Sometimes simplicity is a virtue. It's supposed to be anarchic.

patio1116 anni fa

Making visible a picture of the user, and by extension their real identity, primes them for social interaction other than showing their penis to the other party. It is a "power of nudges" sort of thing. Sure, you could trivially get around it, but taking one's clothes off is fairly easy and yet we don't.

There are definite community and marketing advantages to clothing being worn in the overwhelming majority of all interactions on your site. If that is not the case, that defines your site.

skybrian16 anni fa

Anarchy is fun and all, but it also might be amusing to combine it with a "like" button and reputation.

gsharma16 anni fa

Facelette - Easiest way to harvest emails for people who own "i" products! http://facelette.com/queue

DannoHung16 anni fa

Would there be any way to have it verify that it can establish a Facetime connection? That'd serve the purpose of validation perfectly without needing to have people confirm their address or anything.

sssparkkk16 anni fa

I'd love to try it, but unfortunately I don't own a Mac, nor an iPhone. Besides, I wonder how long it'll take before the perverts take over Facelette, it hasn't happened yet I presume?

For people without 'Apple products and stuff', try http://www.blurrypeople.com instead.

sephlietz16 anni fa

You should really make users verify their email addresses.

holman16 anni fa

I really like the low barrier of entry (ie, no verification). It could be cool to see a more "legitimate" take on all this, but for this quick proof of concept I love how brain-dead simple it turned out. I mean, you're randomly video chatting with strangers, how stringent do you need to make it? :)

sephlietz16 anni fa

The point is that you aren't forced to give anything up in return for another person's email address.

I can input "[email protected]" and get as many email addresses as I want.

I could also put in someone else's email address and they would potentially start getting random FaceTime calls.

adammichaelc16 anni fa

Looks like the users are mostly fake or don't respond.

danielsiders16 anni fa

Would be cool to pair it with a service that generated an ID with apple for throwaway usernames. Has apple blocked all the mailinator domains?

holman16 anni fa

I've talked to a couple from @mailinator domains today, so that must still be legit.

danfitch16 anni fa

Or just use mine. http://www.squarechat.com Shameless plug

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danfitch16 anni fa

or just http://squarechat.com/hackernews to get into a room with others.

sachinag16 anni fa

Do I have to have FaceTime running to get an invite?

holman16 anni fa

Nope; Apple must have something running in the background listening for incoming connections. FaceTime.app will open with the Accept/Reject box when someone calls.

sachinag16 anni fa

That's pretty baller.

steveklabnik16 anni fa

It really is. I was playing video games a few hours ago, and had my laptop open to read stuff between matches. I got a FaceTime call, and was able to reach over, click accept, and say "Hey Kelly, I'm playing some Halo right now, what's up?"

It was actually a way more pleasant experience than trying to do the same thing on a phone.

delackner16 anni fa

This is awesome! The service appears to be "apsd-ft".

geuis16 anni fa

Can't get it to work whatsoever.

zbruhnke16 anni fa

nice ... could be a fun concept on a bored night!

jaspero16 anni fa

This will probably create too much traffic on 'facetime server' or whatever apple has. Degradation on quality of video is what I expect if Facelette picks up popularity.

holman16 anni fa

As the Facelette proprietor, I agree that Apple's FaceTime server capacity is the probable fail point, and guarantee that my freebie Heroku instance and shabby code is virtually infallible.