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Watch YouTube videos with friends, synced to the second

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Watch YouTube videos with friends, synced to the second

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Video and Voice calling

Launch tags:Web App•Streaming Services•YouTube

Launch Team

Congratulations to @vincentdtian, @kooonaal and @iamwillkim ! I know atleast a dozen coders (including me) who wanted to code an app like this. I would love to read an article about the development and the stack. This might also be something for code4startups, @leotrieu

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10yr ago

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Maker

@marcelreschke @vincentdtian @kooonaal @leotrieu Hey Marcel! We've written up a quick article and posted it on Medium, to go over what/why/how, check it out :) https://medium.com/@iamwillkim/s...

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10yr ago

Great idea! Congrats to @vincentdtian, @kooonaal and @iamwillkim. "Room" pages need some design work though.

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10yr ago

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Maker

@aparkhills Hey @aparkhills! Definitely agree--we wanted to keep it relatively simple (in terms of aesthetic, as well as the necessary design work), but we know there's a lot of room for improvements--any specific ideas or feedback? We'd love to hear it :)

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10yr ago

Shout

Nice work!! @iamwillkim it might be useful to have video suggestions based of what we are watching in the room

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10yr ago

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Maker

@shyrosenzweig @iamwillkim This is definitely something we were considering implementing, but we didn't want to compromise the clean, simple UI. We were also concerned with the quality of the recommendations themselves, which would be based on only a few videos, especially given our anonymous sign in flow and non-persisting user accounts. We will think more about the possibility of this feature though and get back to you if we decide to implement it!

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10yr ago

Songcorder

I've used something similar for Deezer a few years ago to listen to music with a few friends of mine. Hope this brings a similar experience :)

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6yr ago

Osaurus

This is something supported by Google Hangouts already — so what motivated this version?

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10yr ago

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Maker

@chrismessina Hey Chris! Great question. I think what's unique (and valuable) about ShareTube is the ease with which users can jump in and out of multiple rooms with people they may know, or don't know. The experience on ShareTube is optimized around watching videos in groups, whereas I'd say Google Hangouts is oriented for the chat and the eponymous "hanging out," with myriad features around that need. That being said, yes, we're quite similar, but we still wanted to build something that would work for us, our friends, their friends, and so on, hope you enjoyed it some :)

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10yr ago

Osaurus

@iamwillkim I'm totally down with third parties focusing on an undeserved use case and building a better product experience.

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10yr ago