Channel 42 – lightweight voice channels as easy as Imgur

Inspired by the ease of use of Imgur and the utility of a good old fashion phone call, I decided to create a platform for the creation of temporary, authentication-free voice channels. Designed with reddit in mind but potentially useful in any comment section on the internet.

Go to the home page (channel42.io), generate a new subchannel, share that Room’s URL as you see fit, and chat by voice. Anyone who visits the URL is automatically connected w/ mic.

Rooms are capped at four people, and expire after two hours. I created a 90 second walkthrough of how it works here: https://www.loom.com/share/55b581e0b0c444be809b1bdbf3725901. The site runs on webrtc and is the architecture is p2p. Signaling is websockets, and is the only thing that hits my DB. Everything is encrypted end-to-end and nothing is stored.

Questions, comments, suggestions? I will hang around. Thanks in advance

This is cool. I’m in mobile. My phone has a grayscale display. There doesn’t appear to be anything that shows me whether my mic is muted or not when I press “Mute Mic” nor is there anything that indicated whether my connection is reset when I press the corresponding button.

If this could accommodate around 8 people or so and I had a reason to trust that the communications were secure, I’d have immediate use for it.

It’s Nice though! And the stack sounds cool.