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I would love a service similar to this one but with a match making algorithm based on interests and/or self selected topics.

This way I could make a lonely commute a lot more interesting by calling a random person also interested in for example Ruby programming

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There used to be a cool chat application Odigo I think, where you could search for random people based on Location. I used to practice my Spanish with people on that.

wow, I never though I'd come across a casual reference to Odigo on the internet (and it isn't from me). Gosh I loved Odigo -- met so many people that I eventually lost contact with. You could even talk to other people browsing the same website as you (interesting, of course, because I wasn't on any social networks -- mostly forums and metal websites).

Wakie (https://wakie.com/), the app that allowed you to set alarms and have random people call to wake you up, used to have this. You could choose a topic (from a set list) and get randomly connected to someone who chose it too. I haven't used it in a long time though, no idea whether it still has users.

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