Jelly Party

Jelly Party

Watch anything together.

6 followers

Visit website
Jelly-Party let's you synchronously watch videos on Netflix, Amazon, Disney+, Youtube and many other streaming services. It features: - Video Synchronization - Notifications - A floating chat - User avatars - Playback status updates every 5 seconds
Jelly Party gallery image
Jelly Party gallery image
Jelly Party gallery image
Launch tags:Chrome Extensions•Movies
Launch Team
Wispr Flow: Dictation That Works Everywhere
Wispr Flow: Dictation That Works Everywhere
Stop typing. Start speaking. 4x faster.
Promoted

What do you think? …

Sean Owl
Jelly Party
Maker
I originally built Jelly-Party about a month ago to synchronously watch videos with friends on my Jellyfin server and since extended the application to work on most websites. Jelly-Party runs using vuejs & nodejs. Some other great extensions have popped up in the meantime, but I still think it's worth sharing Jelly-Party — it uses a nodejs powered websocket server in the backend that is located in Frankfurt, Germany and should provide seamless connection and low latency. I've made the entire source code public on Github, including the server code, so please feel free to check it out (https://github.com/seandlg). I'll also gladly check out any pull requests or suggestions for improvement. For any feedback, I'll be monitoring ProductHunt, Github and our Discord-channel (which you'll find a link to on our website). Please note that I'm a recently self-taught developer and just started with vuejs a month ago. The extension works fine, but if you have any suggestions for improvement code-wise & tech-wise I'd appreciate any learning opportunity. I'm excited to see what you guys think! Best, Sean
Jonathan Laniado
This is great, I see Jellyfin support. Does it work with Plex too?
Sean Owl
Jelly Party
Maker
@jonathanlaniado I have not tested it, since I personally use Jellyfin. Let me know how it goes, if there's a problem I can have a look at it (or if you can share access to a temporary account, I can look into it myself)! As a note for Jellyfin users: Since the current web-version of Jellyfin doesn't provide a unique link for it's videos (it always ends in /index.html#!/videoosd.html), you'll have to join a party by Id rather than use the magic link. Then everything should work though :)
hp
Nice idea. Does it allow voice chat? Would be great if I can talk to others while watching movies.
Sean Owl
Jelly Party
Maker
@hp68569656 Hey thanks for the suggestion! Jelly-Party does not include voice or video chat at the moment. I've been thinking about this feature and am still unsure whether a chrome extension would allow for the stability required for this feature — essentially this would call for P2P connections, which are somewhat wonky at times (networking gets more complicated & bandwidth usage can get quite high in a mesh network). I will keep this in mind though, the core functionality could continue running via websockets and then maybe voice chat could run on a separate P2P channel. Is this something more people would be interested in?
Leon Witt
Incredible Product, really made me and my friends enjoy watching movies together remotely, without the annoying "at which second are you at?!"
Sean Owl
Jelly Party
Maker
@leon_witt Haha glad you like it, that was literally the frustrating sentence that kicked off this entire project! Thanks for the feedback :)
Manisha Snoyer
This is a great idea. I want to try watching a movie with my mom on the East Coast:)
Sean Owl
Jelly Party
Maker
@manisha_snoyer That's great. Let me know how it goes :)
Adam Pritchard
Used this on a few different platforms already and worked like a charm. Much better than Netflix Party. Sean is also very quick to work on it, and previous points for improvement were met warmly.
Sean Owl
Jelly Party
Maker
@adam_pritchard Thanks for the kind words :)
Kathy
Hi, have you considered to make a firefox addon? I would love to try this.
Sean Owl
Jelly Party
Maker
@kthrjss Yes this is something I have in mind. Since both Chrome and Firefox use the webextensions API, this should theoretically be straightforward. However, when I first looked into this, I encountered a few problems, since Chrome and Firefox practically do a few things differently.. I'll definitely keep this in mind though! :)
12
Next
Last