faces.io
Web and SaaS
video chat
SHOW HN2014
40points
15comments
#788of 2,272 in 2014
Top 35%of 2014 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
5 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 10 comments about the project. Thread score +0.19.
Idea: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Cool, fun concept and clean layout
From 4 comments
Sweet layout - love it. Also while there was no hope of any client being able to decode that amount of video at one time I think it does show that the overheads of a…
djoehlman on HNVery cool! Upvoted.
taphangum on HNVery, cool
binaryjohn on HNgood work!
jayrparro on HN
Useful for instant video conferencing via generated URLs
From 1 comment
This is really cool, instant video-conferencing: ``` sha1=$(head -c 1024 /dev/urandom | shasum | cut -d ' ' -f 1) open http://faces.io/#$sha1 ``` send the URL to whoever you want…
lars512 on HN
Objections
Audio is weird and connection errors occur
From 2 comments
"Could not connect stream" ?
lawrencegs on HNNevermind, its because I was using the webcam on a different window (Google Hangout).
lawrencegs on HN
Code admitted to be hacky and copy-pasted
From 1 comment
"This is the hackiest code I've ever written. Most of it is copy pasted from elsewhere. ;-)" I see...
abimaelmartell on HN
Looks like chatroulette
From 1 comment
it's chatroulette right now
k0mplex on HN
Requests
Know the maximum number of concurrent callers
From 1 comment
Whats the limit on concurrent callers? We have had to stop using google hangouts for our morning standup due to more than 9 of us being on at times.
rhgraysonii on HN
Questions
What is the limit on concurrent callers?
From 1 comment
Whats the limit on concurrent callers? We have had to stop using google hangouts for our morning standup due to more than 9 of us being on at times.
rhgraysonii on HN
Alternatives named
Google Hangouts
From 2 comments
Whats the limit on concurrent callers? We have had to stop using google hangouts for our morning standup due to more than 9 of us being on at times.
rhgraysonii on HNNevermind, its because I was using the webcam on a different window (Google Hangout).
lawrencegs on HN