[aminozuur]

3 months to build a new video chat platform. The first release was very naked, live video chats worked, but there was no text chat on the side. Since then, we've fixed a lot of connection bugs, added Twitter login, and had to scale to a new server with 15 times capacity.

It's called Harf, would love to hear anyones opinion: http://harf.io

[levimaes]

Hi, can I ask what features you're going to implement next? Also, is harf.io's main advantage supposed to be that it's essentially a committment-free, platform agnostic videochat service? Who do you think would use it most; Craigslist patrons requesting remote, "hand-on" previews of listed products with constraints to iOS' facetime or Google's Duo?

[aminozuur]

Harf.io's main difference is that everything is public. I cannot watch other people's conversations on Facetime, Skype or Duo. Let alone call in and interact with them. But I can on Harf.

We are pushing code every day, though it's not always visible to the user. A lot of features are coming soon, most importantly moderations tools.

[levimaes]

Wow, so it can host topic-specific (like subreddits) video discussions! It makes me think of a kind of cyber theatre or video-torium.

[aminozuur]

Yes, but usually people give the room a title, and 10 minutes into the conversation they will start discussing all kinds of other stuff as well. It all depends on who else decided to call in or comment.

I hope some day there will always be 100+ rooms open at any given day. Just imagine, you could be having a conversation with anyone about anything, at any given moment.