Jam
Consumer and social
audio chat rooms
SHOW HN2021
317points
66comments
#111of 2,533 in 2021
Top 5%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
9 positive, 25 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 6 critical, out of 40 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Idea: 6 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Simple, responsive UX
From 2 comments
I like the Ux, very simple and responsive. It would be great if users on the stage could share a file with everyone else.
thatcat on HNWorks flawlessly, only wish would be to have some sort of public lobby (or many small lobbies) to try it out and listen in for a bit to get a feel for it. Great conversations…
mittermayr on HN
Open source approach
From 2 comments
Works flawlessly, only wish would be to have some sort of public lobby (or many small lobbies) to try it out and listen in for a bit to get a feel for it. Great conversations…
mittermayr on HNThis is awesome! Keep it up - I'll see how I can contribute.
nodomain on HN
Objections
Peer-to-peer mesh may not scale beyond small rooms
From 2 comments
Not an expert here but have some experience with it: Assuming that each peer is connected to every other peer via a mesh network [see this image for reference:…
zenosmosis on HNThank you. That's a great question. Our current setup is p2p WebRTC and should scale to many small rooms (up to ~12 people) fairly well. That said, there is a TURN server for NAT…
tosh on HN
Landing page looks like a nerd app
From 1 comment
Love this! Please make landing screen a teeny bit prettier and you could definitely start recommending this to regular 'retail' folk. I'd consider putting the about text below…
jabberwcky on HN
Audio quality concerns for music listening
From 1 comment
thanks for building this. maybe you can point me in the right direction with the naming. Names like /club/ (house) or /jam/ sounds like they might appeal to an audiophile. apart…
DyslexicAtheist on HN
Requests
Public room discovery or lobby list
From 3 comments
Is there a way to view a list of rooms? I want to listen to something!
FailMore on HNWorks flawlessly, only wish would be to have some sort of public lobby (or many small lobbies) to try it out and listen in for a bit to get a feel for it. Great conversations…
mittermayr on HNYeah I second this, a discovery mechanism for public spaces would be nice. This is a really neat and clean design but can't do much in a room by myself. Might give this a try…
BelenusMordred on HN
Federation
From 1 comment
This is great! I've used Clubhouse over the past couple of weeks, and have been looking forward to seeing the opensource/self-hosted version. Imho tho, one super important thing…
beshrkayali on HN
File sharing in rooms
From 1 comment
I like the Ux, very simple and responsive. It would be great if users on the stage could share a file with everyone else.
thatcat on HN
Speech-to-text support
From 1 comment
Thank you for bringing this up! Do you have experience with speech to text systems for live calls? Which product/service does this really well? I'm super motivated to find a way…
tosh on HN
Questions
How many users and what server load does it support?
From 2 comments
wow this is incredible! How many concurrent users does it support?
yawnxyz on HNNice work. What type of backend do you need in terms of servers/users if this was a real product? Clubhouse has been suffering under heavy load in certain cases. WebRTC is mostly…
sxp on HN
How does it differ from dogehouse.tv?
From 1 comment
How is this {better,different} from dogehouse.tv ?
denysvitali on HN
Alternatives named
Clubhouse
From 2 comments
Hi everyone, a few days ago @DoubleMalt, @mitschabaude and me did a one-day hackathon to see if we can get a minimal WebRTC based version of a Clubhouse-style "room" to work.…
tosh on HNThis is great! I've used Clubhouse over the past couple of weeks, and have been looking forward to seeing the opensource/self-hosted version. Imho tho, one super important thing…
beshrkayali on HN
Jitsi
From 1 comment
I was thinking about building something like this based on Jitsi. But I got 20% CPU utilisation on a 2GB/1Core Hetzner Cloud Instance with only three Test Audio Connections.…
frypto on HN
Dogehouse
From 1 comment
How is this {better,different} from dogehouse.tv ?
denysvitali on HN
Mumble
From 1 comment
Nice project. For server side mixing, how hard would be to integrate Jam with Mumble? There is a Github repository that does it: https://github.com/Johni0702/mumble-web
im_dario on HN
Agora
From 1 comment
Could you build this on top of Agora ? That would make it much nicer from an open-source perspective. It's one of the only services that can carry the backend audio scalably. The…
sandGorgon on HN