Inspired by the ease of use of Imgur and the utility of a good old fashion phone call, I decided to create a platform for the creation of temporary, authentication-free voice channels. Designed with reddit in mind but potentially useful in any comment section on the internet.
Go to the home page (channel42.io), generate a new subchannel, share that Room’s URL as you see fit, and chat by voice. Anyone who visits the URL is automatically connected w/ mic.
Rooms are capped at four people, and expire after two hours. I created a 90 second walkthrough of how it works here: https://www.loom.com/share/55b581e0b0c444be809b1bdbf3725901. The site runs on webrtc and is the architecture is p2p. Signaling is websockets, and is the only thing that hits my DB. Everything is encrypted end-to-end and nothing is stored.
Questions, comments, suggestions? I will hang around. Thanks in advance
This is cool. I’m in mobile. My phone has a grayscale display. There doesn’t appear to be anything that shows me whether my mic is muted or not when I press “Mute Mic” nor is there anything that indicated whether my connection is reset when I press the corresponding button.
If this could accommodate around 8 people or so and I had a reason to trust that the communications were secure, I’d have immediate use for it.
thanks for the feedback. i could easily have it accomodate that many securely. what use case is that? If you can share.
the mute mic button should change to 'unmute" when you tap it. The reset connection button only does something under the hood, youre right. I honestly could do away with it, it's rarely useful and a page refresh is better in pretty much any scenario.
Go to the home page (channel42.io), generate a new subchannel, share that Room’s URL as you see fit, and chat by voice. Anyone who visits the URL is automatically connected w/ mic.
Rooms are capped at four people, and expire after two hours. I created a 90 second walkthrough of how it works here: https://www.loom.com/share/55b581e0b0c444be809b1bdbf3725901. The site runs on webrtc and is the architecture is p2p. Signaling is websockets, and is the only thing that hits my DB. Everything is encrypted end-to-end and nothing is stored.
Questions, comments, suggestions? I will hang around. Thanks in advance