[HN Gopher] Show HN: Volcano | Co-watch YouTube videos just by a...
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Show HN: Volcano | Co-watch YouTube videos just by adding --- to
the URL
Just follow the super easy steps below to try it right away: 1.
Open any youtube video and play it in the browser. 2. Edit the
youtube.com video URL to you---tube.com (adding three hyphens
between "you" and "tube" in the address bar) 3. Enter and Done,
Share the URL with others for them to join or live-stream your co-
watching stream. (private and visible only to people with the URL
you share) Example: Modify
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX2qFMC8cFo to https://www.you---
tube.com/watch?v=eX2qFMC8cFo and press enter in the address bar.
Voila!
Author : jithinraj
Score : 23 points
Date : 2021-08-02 17:10 UTC (5 hours ago)
| vilified wrote:
| I'm using quad9 as the dns resolver and it's blocking you---tube
| domain as malicious :(
| jithinraj wrote:
| Hi HN,
|
| I'm Jithin Raj, co-founder of Volcano together with Sajith Amma
| (https://vlca.no). We are building a platform for anyone to go
| live with drop-in video chats by enabling Youtube, Twitch, &
| Vimeo co-watch features on top of it.
|
| The product is currently WIP. This Youtube hack became popular in
| our circles and thought of sharing it with the HN community for
| feedback. This works better on the web and is not fine-tuned for
| mobile.
|
| We're excited to hear any thoughts, insights, questions,
| encouragement, and concerns in the comments below! Sajith and I
| will be monitoring the thread to answer any questions.
|
| Also, feel free to reach out to us by email at
| founders@volcano.social
|
| Cheers!
| djmips wrote:
| Bad name. Stop co-opting common words for product names.
| deeblering4 wrote:
| Is it possible to see the youtube video name and/or url that you
| are watching?
|
| Maybe I am missing it, but I didn't see that info when trying it
| out.
| jithinraj wrote:
| Hi @deeblering,
|
| Thank you for trying it out. The title of the video is loaded
| at the beginning of the video and disappears as you continue to
| watch. It appears back whenever you pause the video.
|
| Is the title needed always on top of the video somewhere with
| minimal intrusion?
|
| I'm live on this URL now:
| https://volcano.live/youtube/eX2qFMC8cFo/32968583.
|
| Would love to chat and take feedback. :)
| antcas wrote:
| Okay, trying it out:
|
| https://www.you---tube.com/watch?v=oLeNW7b_2E0
| antcas wrote:
| Pretty cool, do you have any demo URL's or currently popular
| streams to try out the multi-player experience with?
| jithinraj wrote:
| Hi @antcas,
|
| Thank you for trying out. Yes, I'm live on the URL you shared
| above to chat, if you are still around. :)
|
| Also, do feel free to check out https://vlca.no/chrome if you
| want to skip the above steps and save some keystrokes while
| creating your co-watch URL.
| sajithamma wrote:
| Nowadays most of our meetings happen over this URL, in fact,
| free, unlimited ;)
| jithinraj wrote:
| Yay! :)
| thallavajhula wrote:
| Hi Jithin, this looks nice. Good job. Just a word of advice, a
| lot of scammers typically use techniques like these to market
| their scams. I get that this is your work and I'd recommend
| directly sharing vlca.no links instead. Telling users to insert 3
| dashes between "you" and "tube", while convenient, can often come
| off as an attempt at scamming.
| soared wrote:
| The url hack is common place for legitimate services around
| YouTube so I think it's fine. I've used two tools that url hack
| and it's very very convenient.
| jithinraj wrote:
| Hi @soared! Thank you so much for trying it out, glad that
| you liked it. :)
| jithinraj wrote:
| Hi @thallavajhula.
|
| Thank you so much for your valuable feedback and kind words.
|
| This is aimed at the users who don't want to install a browser
| plugin. We have a Chrome plugin (https://vlca.no/chrome) and
| page at Volcano (https://volcano.live/embed/home) where users
| can paste the video URL and get the co-watch URLs too.
|
| Please feel free to check out and share your feedback.
|
| Thank you, once again. :)
| bsldld wrote:
| > (private and visible only to people with the URL you share)
|
| This is going to be fun!
|
| What happens if I am watching a video with my family using this
| URL. And someone across the world is also watching the same video
| with his/her family using the same technique. Now we have two
| families sharing the same video, isn't it?
| jithinraj wrote:
| Good catch, @bsldld. When it was just two of us experimenting
| with this, that used to be the case. It's taken care of now.
|
| Regardless of how many different sets of people are watching
| the same youtube video, it would still be a private screen
| where only people with your family's unique co-watching URL can
| join or watch it.
|
| That way the co-watching experience remains private. It will be
| a separate private screen for your family and theirs.
|
| Thank you for bringing this up and letting me answer this for
| others too :)
| dexterhaslem wrote:
| if i start one up and want to link a friend late to the
| party, would this make it so they cant join? how does this
| work
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