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Hitchweb! Browser Extension🧩, Talk to people on same website 🤩

Rajesh Joshi on June 06, 2022

Recently, I wrote a post Talk to people who are on the same site 🌎 | Chrome Extension. Where I talked about an extension for chromium based browser...

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Khokon M. • Jun 7 '22

Installed, but seems like, not working properly for me. As I can't join, it just keeps loading.

Rajesh Joshi • Jun 7 '22

Your may check the console, share the errors to me on my email.

Khokon M. • Jun 7 '22

Token obtained
connected to room dev.to
Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: Requested device not found

Rajesh Joshi • Jun 7 '22

This might be an permission issue with the microphone.

Does your device have mic?
Is mic working?
Reset permissions to the site/extension.

It should work.

Khokon M. • Jun 7 '22

No, my device doesn't have a mic, nor did the extension asked for a microphone permission.

Rajesh Joshi • Jun 7 '22

Microphone is required to enter any room.

Meanwhile, you can use the web version: hitchweb.netlify.app/

Phani Rithvij • Jun 8 '22 • Edited

A few things:

Text chat feature
- eg. github.com/utterance/utterances
- support markdown optionally
Moderation tools (kind of required)
Seperate text and voice chats like in discord.
Instead of global site wide rooms have individual rooms for urls
- For example on youtube, each per video
- account for hash routes or specific query params in url
- can also have a global room per site
Allow to join in even without microphone permission to just listen.
Make it open source?
- It will make your life easier and make it more secure.
- Even if you feel like abandoning it someone will fork and pick it up and credit your name.

Rajesh Joshi • Jun 8 '22 • Edited

Thanks @phanirithvij for the feedbacks.

Few things were already in the TODO list. But, you definitely suggested more things.

Let's then code together.

Yash • Jun 7 '22

wait its voice chat, u should add text chat

Rajesh Joshi • Jun 7 '22

Thanks for the feedback, I'll add this in the future.

Medea • Jun 6 '22

This is really cool! What language did you use to make this?

Rajesh Joshi • Jun 7 '22

❤️ JavaScript 😉

Medea • Jun 7 '22

Wow okay

Ben Sinclair • Jun 8 '22

Indeed, the posts say, "talk to" people but we're (I'm) used to that meaning text chat. It doesn't seem to mention voice chat.

Rajesh Joshi • Jun 8 '22

I can understand.

No worries buddy, I'll introduce this feature soon.

Vic • Jun 7 '22

Nice!

Liviu Lupei • Jun 6 '22

Installed and also wrote a positive review.
Well done!

Rajesh Joshi • Jun 7 '22

Thank you @liviufromendtest ❤️

Veeresh • Jun 6 '22

Hey, is it possible to open an extension in the same website, I don't want to redirect to another website when I click.

Rajesh Joshi • Jun 6 '22

That is possible, but this is just another way, I implemented in.

May be in future, I'll provide an option to open in a window.

Gpet • Jun 6 '22 • Edited

Hi, how about if there are hundreds of persons inside the page and talking together, what do you think about that ? is there are no problem about that ?