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.
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.
Would you be comfortable posting the source, so that others could host their own copy with their own API keys?
I will definitely do it if YouTube rejects my quota requests. Otherwise, I plan on keeping in close for now.
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.
Shoutout to Jitsi, which allows you to add a YouTube video to a group video call which auto plays for everyone.
Alas, this feature only works for users on the browser app, and not in the mobile apps.
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.
Rave.io is an alternative that really impressed me. With features like watching videos with friends on Gdrive
I don't understand the name of the site? "The Gives"? That's just ungrammatical.
Yeah, but I liked the domain, it reminded me of 60's rock bands I like.
Yeah, but those rock band names are at least grammatical. They're of the form "The {Noun}s", not "The {conjugation of verb}".
The The?
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.
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.
Most domains are just made up words, so...
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).