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Jitesh Dugar

Flickcall - Watch together on your favorite streaming platforms

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Flickcall is a privacy-focused browser extension to watch movies & TV shows together. Your personal chats & video stream are delivered directly to peers. Supports Netflix, Youtube, Primevideo, Hotstar, & Zee5. It is like Netflix party with video-call.

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Piyush Arya
Maker
🎄 Hello there! Thanks for stopping by. We have built Flickcall because of my own needs to watch movies & TV shows with friends and family during pandemic. Since then it has grown to 20,000+ users organically. As this holiday season have started, I think its time to introduce it to larger community 🙂. Flickcall is build to give you an experience of watch together remotely. You can talk to your friends, chat, see their reaction all while watching your favorite show together. It is vertically integrated with major streaming platforms like Netflix, Youtube, Hotstar, Primevideo. It is build using privacy in mind using webRTC so that your personal communication is directly delivered to your friends and never reaches (except for few cases) to our servers. If you have already used Teleparty then Flickcall is Teleparty along with video chat. Key Highlights 🆓 No signup required and completely free 🙃 Easy to install & use. No need to pass along usage instructions. 🚀 Supports 5 major streaming platform including Netflix & youtube. 🔥 Supports audio, video & group chat. 🔒 Privacy friendly - Your personal communication is delivered directly to peers instead of routing via servers. Please let us know how important is privacy for you? 💬 Pause & talk feature to engage in seamless conversation. When video content is playing, mic automatically turns off and vice versa. 📺 Supports binge watching across multiple episodes in same party. We hope Flickcall will give you best virtual party experience for the holidays!
Sumit Gupta
Maker
Just wanted your feedback on something. How valuable is privacy to you? Our architecture is privacy first where we leverage p2p communication rather than a simple server client architecture. Do you rather prefer privacy then sacrificing some feature/quality or is it something just "good to have"?
Kamila Klavíková
@sumit_gupta3 Security without good user-friendliness is nothing. Take Signal as an example. Messenger is focused on security. Encrypted communication. Sounds great. We all know that Facebook makes money from advertising and uses Messenger to do it. But as a result, one prefers to use that one because Signal is unfortunately perpetually broken. Sure, some level of security is great, but ultimately it's still based on trust. So in summary, security yes, but only if the app works decently. In my experience, it's sometimes hard to find that line. But I like your solution. Not only your product is good during a pandemic, but also normally when families and friends are away from each other for a long time. That happens often.
Piyush Arya
Maker
@sumit_gupta3 @klavikova Thank you. That's helpful and example is to the point. We internally had debate for the same because for ~1 % of the users, peer-to-peer connections are not working out due to firewall settings. In this case, privacy is no good and we are planning to fallback to traditional client server approach for this use case.
Kamila Klavíková
@sumit_gupta3 @piyush_arya2 That's a good approach. I like your thinking. I bet the debate wasn't easy. Piyush, what was the biggest roadblock for you in making the app?
Piyush Arya
Maker
@klavikova Psychologically building the app that is already present in the market was challenging but once we found out gaps in the current players, it becomes very motivating. Technically keeping video players in sync is relatively easy problem in a typical client server model as there is one source of truth. In webRTC peer-to-peer (distributed) system, agreeing to single source of truth was harder than I expected.
Jitesh Dugar
Hunter
The tool has been created by my friends Piyush, Sumit & Bhupendra to support teleparty with major streaming platforms, it even includes YouTube and has video chat feature that works seamlessly. It's so simple to setup and it feels like magic. I hope the PH Community likes it too.
Piyush Arya
Maker
@jitesh_dugar Thanks Jitesh for posting about it and glad you liked it.
bhupendra kunwar
Maker
@jitesh_dugar Thanks bro! Hoping for the same.
Noosh Baratpour
Cool! Hope it soon gets to supports desktop for Apple TV and apps too :)
Piyush Arya
Maker
@merno0sh Long way to it but on the roadmap. We are planning to expand to more streaming providers like Hulu, HBO followed by mobile webapp support and more apps.
Raunak Singh
I think its a great tool to get together with friends virtually and replicate the same experience you have when you watch together in the same room
bhupendra kunwar
Maker
@raunak_singh117 Yes, thats the intent, Do share your experience & feel free to host parties :)
Maria
Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant! *_* When you are away of friends and still wanna enjoy together some movie, series or shows - Flickcall is an amazing way to stay together, stay connected, and join atmosphere and vibes! ^_^ Thanks for implementing such an idea! Big congratulations on the launch! Can't wait to try it out! *_*
bhupendra kunwar
Maker
@maria_brm Looking forward to your experience. Do spread the word :) Happy Holidays!
Maria
@bhupendrakunwar I will, surely! *_* And I will be glad to share first impressions! Happy and joyful holidays to you too! ^__^
Tasnuva Ashraf Umama
This was a long overdue app! Will this work in Bangladesh?
bhupendra kunwar
Maker
@umama_ashraf Should work. But do share if you find any experience issues in Bangladesh. Happy to look into it :)
Piyush Arya
Maker
@umama_ashraf one known issue we have seen is when user try to create watch party across country and content is not available in one country or if there are different URL for same content in different countries. We handle this for Hotstar but not yet for primevideo. In other cases it should be fine.
Anurag Singh
Nice one. Think of making a Occulus app :)
bhupendra kunwar
Maker
@singhanurag Noted. :) Do share your feedback about the current version once you start using it with your friends & family.
Yatin Kumar
Pretty sleek! There are many platforms who promise to do this but fail when it comes to execution. And this one does it so smoothly.
Piyush Arya
Maker
@yatinit17 thank you Ease of use and correctness are something that we focus on. That is why we started with just Netflix, made it right and expanded to other platforms.
Goutham
Cool product guys. A very much handy tool for the holidays :)
bhupendra kunwar
Maker
@gouthamj Thanks for using it & Happy Holidays! :)
Sanket Temani
A really awesome product for watching movies or shows together with your long-distance friends. The best part about it is that it supports multiple streaming platforms which includes YouTube too 🤩. Absolutely love it.
bhupendra kunwar
Maker
@sanket_temani Thanks for your feedback, its encouraging for us as well! Yes, youtube has been a game-changer for us as well. We will be integrating with more platforms soon.
Sumit Gupta
Maker
There is only one platform in the market, Teleparty. Then we thought why we can't build this on other platforms(mainly Indian platforms like Hotstar and Zee5). Started with Netflix, today flickcall supports 5 platforms and plan to expand it further in the coming days. Please try it out and share your experiences.
Aqib Suhail
This project has such a huge potential considering it's only a chrome extension. Pretty dope work!
bhupendra kunwar
Maker
@aqib_suhail Glad that you liked it Happy Holidays :)
Adrija Das
Interesting Idea! Away from my home I could now still watch movies together. Awesome guys, good work!
bhupendra kunwar
Maker
@adrija_das Thanks, Looking forward to your experience with your friends & family once you start using it regularly.
Ashish Kaushik
Explored it, it's a great product for coming holidays for people away from home. Kudos to the team :)
bhupendra kunwar
Maker
@ashish_kaushik Glad that you liked it. Feel free to launch more parties online! Enjoy the Holidays!
Ritesh Srivastava
Used it yesterday for watching a movie with friends. Worked like charm. I think we chatted for 30 more mins once movie was over. Good job!
Piyush Arya
Maker
@ritesh_srivastava1 this is so satisfying for us!
Karan Uppal
This is so creative! Have been using tools which allow syncronized streaming, but the video chat would make it so special. 😍 Also, can't wait to check if this product works for Live streams (which can make sports fun, again!)
Piyush Arya
Maker
@karan_uppal2 yes we do. Flickcall supports live streaming on Hotstar and YouTube. We have tested this during IPL but love to know about your experience when you try it out. Cheering together is what made it fun.
Atul Ghorpade
Congrats on the launch. It's amazing.
Vikram Gupta
Great product
bhupendra kunwar
Maker
@vikram_gupta_india Glad to know that you liked it :) Keep sharing you feedback
Akanksha Sahu
Such a useful and cool product ❤️
bhupendra kunwar
Maker
@akanksha_sahu Happy to know that you found it useful. Keep sharing your experience with our tool.