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Facebook + ChatRoulette = FaceRoulette

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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!

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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.

Doesn't work for me...

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" ;)

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...

This was actually built by someone at Reddit

So by proxy it's built by an HNer.

This could be hugely popular.

too late

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

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

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

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

Who says?

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

then radio silence...

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

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

Seems like everyone on this is from news.yc.

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.

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.

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

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.

By curiosity: What framework did he used?

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

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