Show HN: The Gives – Watch videos with friends

dutzi_ 6 years ago |

The platform lets you search for YouTube videos, once clicking on a video, the app creates a room, whoever joins this room will watch that video in sync with you, while both parties are video chatting.

https://imgur.com/qrtyVzc

https://imgur.com/E8VxkOl

dafran 6 years ago |

Alternative desktop app: https://syncplay.pl/

dutzi_ 6 years ago |

I've exceeded YouTube's quota. I've placed a fixture with preloaded results of John Oliver clips instead. Sorry about that. I'll try working with YouTube on getting this sorted out.

hoistbypetard 6 years ago | |

Would you be comfortable posting the source, so that others could host their own copy with their own API keys?

dutzi_ 6 years ago | | |

I will add an option to paste a YouTube's video URL, so you can search on YouTube and then navigate back to The Gives and watch it.

dutzi_ 6 years ago | | |

I will definitely do it if YouTube rejects my quota requests. Otherwise, I plan on keeping in close for now.

ummonk 6 years ago |

Shoutout to Jitsi, which allows you to add a YouTube video to a group video call which auto plays for everyone.

vutekst 6 years ago | |

Alas, this feature only works for users on the browser app, and not in the mobile apps.

interestica 6 years ago | | |

Yes. I'd love if the mobile version would kill the users video feeds and keep audio even just to have the synced YouTube video. Or text chat only for mobile? Any kind of graceful reduction.

ckugblenu 6 years ago |

Rave.io is an alternative that really impressed me. With features like watching videos with friends on Gdrive

CydeWeys 6 years ago |

I don't understand the name of the site? "The Gives"? That's just ungrammatical.

dutzi_ 6 years ago | |

Yeah, but I liked the domain, it reminded me of 60's rock bands I like.

CydeWeys 6 years ago | | |

Yeah, but those rock band names are at least grammatical. They're of the form "The {Noun}s", not "The {conjugation of verb}".

jchw 6 years ago | | |

Give is certainly a noun. As in, “the mechanism has some give.”

> the quality or state of being resilient; springiness.

Whether it makes sense to pluralize it.. well, no. But hey.

CydeWeys 6 years ago | | |

And if the name was "The Give" I wouldn't have quite as much of a problem with it, though that's still not a great name, especially in this context.

dutzi_ 6 years ago | | |

Most domains are just made up words, so...

CydeWeys 6 years ago | | |

I'm trying to tell you that I don't think the name "The Gives" is very good, and I don't think I'm alone in that opinion. Do with that information what you will, but my advice in response to your "Show HN" is to pick a better name (and correspondingly, domain name).

aidos 6 years ago | | |

The The?

Thaxll 6 years ago |

It's dead jim.

dutzi_ 6 years ago | |

:(