Launched this week
OpenParty
Free, open-source watch parties on any site with a video
1 follower
Free, open-source watch parties on any site with a video
1 follower
OpenParty keeps everyone's video in sync so you can watch together with friends, wherever they are. Start a party on almost any site with a video, send the link, and play, pause or skip together while you chat and react next to the video. Whoever sits through an ad catches up afterwards. No account, no premium tier, no ads, no tracking. MIT licensed, with a sync server you can host yourself.
Free
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Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I'm Nabeel. I built OpenParty because I wanted a watch party tool that's free for everyone. The one most people use, Teleparty, only works on its list of supported sites, and many of them need a paid plan. So I built my own and open-sourced it.
How it works: everyone streams the video from the site themselves, with their own account, and OpenParty keeps the players in sync. A small sync server passes play, pause, seek and chat between you. No video goes through it, and it deletes a party 10 minutes after everyone leaves.
What you get:
Works on almost any site with a video player, including embedded players
Synced play, pause and seek, or host-only control
Chat, emoji reactions and a member list, also in fullscreen
Everyone follows the host to the next episode
Whoever sits through an ad or buffers catches up afterwards
No account, no ads, no analytics; MIT licensed, and you can host the server yourself
It's new, so I'd love to hear where it breaks. If a site doesn't work for you, tell me which one: adding a site is often a one-line change.