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Show HN: Have voice-only virtual coffees with fellow HN'ers

by meowtastic on 1/8/23, 6:59 AM with 16 comments

I'm running several voice-only virtual coffee events on the Discord server in the URL, only for today. The rules are pretty simple: 1. Wait for the "event" to start (see times at the end) 2. If there are no tables with 1 participant, join any one. 3. If there is a table with 1 participant, join that one. 4. When the event ends, all the voice channels are deleted and you have to wait till the next event starts.

I initially wanted to build my own web app but then I realised it would be so much easier to just leverage Discord's infrastructure. I also built a bot in a couple hundred lines of Go code (love the language!) to bulk create/delete voice channels.

I intentionally left it super basic to validate if there's a need. I personally would love to have virtual networking events, but then again I know I'm somewhat odd as I come from a sales background.

If you're interested/want to take part in more of these events, check out my profile where I have some contact options.

Anyway, here's the times (each lasts 1 hour): - 8 AM GMT / 1.30 PM IST / 12 AM PST - 11 AM GMT / 4.30 PM IST / 3 AM PST - 2 PM GMT / 7.30 PM IST / 6 AM PST - 5 PM GMT / 10.30 PM IST / 9 AM PST - 8 PM GMT / 1.30 AM IST / 12 PM PST - 11 PM GMT / 4.30 AM IST / 3 PM PST

  • by sanity31415 on 1/8/23, 11:04 AM

    It's very interesting to see Discord used in this way, along with other uses like MidJourney.

    Makes me wonder if a service custom-designed as a "general purpose user interface" might be useful to people, it's something I've been thinking about building for a while but need to validate the need first.

  • by meowtastic on 1/8/23, 10:12 PM

    Alrighty, this little project didn't really work out so I'm going to log off for the day and go to bed. I'll keep the coffee tables open until tomorrow morning, in the off chance anyone wants to chat. And allow everyone to message on the text channel, go crazy. Thanks again for checking out my submission!

  • by meowtastic on 1/8/23, 9:05 AM

    Will be posting my learnings from each session on this thread.