Facebook + ChatRoulette = FaceRoulette

Facebook + ChatRoulette = FaceRoulette(faceroulette.net)

39 points by mojaam 16 years ago | 22 comments

It's like Chatroulette but only for people from Facebook. No fakers and dirty old men anymore! Give it a try and spread the word!

dbz 16 years ago |

ChatRoulette is no fun, imho, because I don't want to see people jacking off or talk to random 70 year old men. (I tried it two days ago with a friend.)

People who use ChatRoulette say "I'm used to seeing guys jack off." (not just my friend, everyone I have talked to says it) That's a phrase I never thought I'd hear- nor something I want to hear. I wonder what they will say about this site.

zitterbewegung 16 years ago |

Doesn't work for me...

dtran 16 years ago |

Interesting concept... doesn't have the crazy/high-novelty factor that chatroulette has, but using FBConnect opens a whole different set of possibilities - only connect to people with a certain shared interest, gender/age, or "Looking for" ;)

DaniFong 16 years ago |

Holy shit, someone just built this?! I just posted this as an idea I hoped someone would steal...

-- Oh, I see via the whois records that it was not, in fact, registered today. Oh good, the world is not insane...

iamdave 16 years ago | |

This was actually built by someone at Reddit

jmatt 16 years ago | | |

So by proxy it's built by an HNer.

ZitchDog 16 years ago |

This could be hugely popular.

helwr 16 years ago | |

too late

yosho 16 years ago |

The popup for facebook login is annoying and is caught by ad blockers

awad 16 years ago | |

Which is odd since all the other fb connect logins I've ever encountered use a lightbox overlay type form.

naz 16 years ago | | |

If you're logged into Facebook it shows a lightbox for FB Connect, otherwise it shows a popup.

FayDD 16 years ago |

Works pretty good here! I love the idea! No more naked men :D

p858snake 16 years ago | |

Who says?

white_eskimo 16 years ago |

"The attempt to connect to the Adobe Stratus service timed out. We will wait for 10 more seconds the next time."

then radio silence...

jacquesm 16 years ago |

facebook + chatroulette = instant firefox crash (at least on this box...)

polymath21 16 years ago |

I'm very interested in seeing if this takes off...

kajecounterhack 16 years ago |

Seems like everyone on this is from news.yc.

DFootball 16 years ago |

The total anonymity of chatroulette and the shock value of seeing random cocks makes it much more risky and exciting.

FaceRoulette is taking an awesome concept and making it too safe to be successful.

Sorry, just calling it like I'm seeing it.

dailo10 16 years ago | |

I wouldn't consider random cocks "risky and exciting". In fact, that totally turned me off from chat roulette. Getting rid of cocks makes this potentially more interesting and hopefully more successful.

milestinsley 16 years ago | | |

Agreed. In fact, "getting rid of cocks" would go along way to making most things in life more interesting and successful!

DaniFong 16 years ago | |

I'm sure that the makers of FaceRoulette are perfectly okay with competing in the 1% market niche of non-cock oriented videochat. The 99% cock oriented niche can be left to ChatRoulette; it is only fair, they are the first to think of it, and first to lose their pants.

csomar 16 years ago |

By curiosity: What framework did he used?

(I did he wrote with Flash from scratch or used a specific, flash framework)