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typr.club

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The public test room btw is https://typr.club/world

Hi everyone! I made typr.club as an experiment to build some kind of 'augmented' chat room, where people could transmit their presence, emotions, reactions... by attaching a short video to their text messages.

It works with rooms, you can just create one by appending whatever to the URL. It has some other features like converting all your messages to GIFs (memes alert!!), integrating with Slack and it can send you web push notifications on activity, if you wish to Subscribe to a room. More info/code here: https://github.com/ruiramos/typr.club

Hope you like it, feedback welcome!

Is there permanence to the chat rooms, or when all participants leave, does it self destruct?

They expire after 2 weeks without any new messages

Can you talk about the tech stack you are using to power this?

Sure! :) The backend is basically just Redis and Amazon! (S3 for storing the files, a Lambda function to convert webm into mp4 and gif). Client side, it's using WebSockets, RecordRTC for the video capture and Service Workers for the push notification bit.

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