Relay

Free live chat for your website.

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Free live chat for your website.

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Relay Chat adds anonymous, IRC-style chat on every domain on the Internet, so you can chat with other people browsing the same website.

Launch tags:Chrome Extensions

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Render Sandboxes: a computer for every agentGive every agent its own machine. Starts in under a second

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That could be useful (or opposite) for online services, ecommerce sites etc. to ask questions for actual user without any marketing scams.

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7yr ago

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Maker

@ariel_jedrzejczak That's one of our hopes. We want Relay to always be like a handy companion ready to help or distract.

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7yr ago

One of the best things I've seen in a long time, it would be quite interesting to see it on mobile as well (eg. site owner adds iframe (like it's done with Analytics), chat is displayed only to users that have cookie from relay). Btw I've noticed this is working on localhost domains as well, if you do some threads and profile reputation magic, perhaps add in-app purchases and ngrok integration this could become Stack Overflow on steroids

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7yr ago

Relay

Maker

@bono_vidakovic Thanks for the kind words! We have a mobile prototype on Firefox for Android you might be interested in checking out. The coolest part is it gets push notifications :). Here's to hopefully becoming Stack Overflow on steroids one day!

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7yr ago

I love this! As someone said in the chat, this could be insane for quick community help. Think Stackoverflow but live chat. Just started the channel on my own website https://urbanhunt.co ... Free trails for anyone who cats on there 🎉

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7yr ago

Relay

Maker

@mikelholford Thank you! Just sent a chat there. Looks like a cool site :D

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7yr ago

Does the chat work cross platform , meaning someone on chrome can chat with someone of edge or Firefox.

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7yr ago

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Maker

@jackphannon Yes it does! And we're working to add Safari in the near future.

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7yr ago

On the surface this is an amazing idea. I tried it and it works as intended and looks great. I’m just worried about the privacy implications of something like this. You are able to see all the websites visited by other users which makes it very easy to track people across websites. I see a potential monetization avenue in selling that information to advertiser but it’s feels very intrusive. A cool piece of tech but I think there should be more thought put into the privacy of users. It’s one of those things that sounds great on paper but in production has too much potential for abuse. I uninstalled it because of that.

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7yr ago

Relay

Maker

@frankie_p1 sorry to hear you uninstalled. For what it’s worth, no other user will know you’ve visited a site unless you choose to post there. We also store as little personal information as possible (just the email address—which we don’t verify—and associated IP addresses). You can inspect the network traffic to verify exactly what we collect. I definitely understand your concern as far as the potential to track you across websites. This concern is shared across many extensions. If you’d like Relay to run on only specific websites, you can specify them in chrome://extensions. Also open to any feedback you have as far as making this product more private!

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7yr ago

So basically it's a copy of dissenter which came out 3ish years ago. Google removed it from the store for no good reason but sideloading is easy enough.

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7yr ago

Mometic

Great work. Critical mass will be key for you too. Here are my ideas. Create a site categorization function via Alexa API amd present conversations on your site based per category. This raises awareness of sites and people who can help on certain topics, but may not be on particular site. In chat window, you could also dynamically expand the audience based on category hierarchy to always have chatters. Or point to other sites that are similar with active conversations. Best of luck!!

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6yr ago

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