Zipcall.io – Free browser-based video calling

Hey, If it's using WebRTC built into the browser like every other web-based video calling app – how is it "unmatched" exactly?

On the site it says &quot;Breakthrough peer to peer WebRTC technology&quot; and the title claims &quot;no latency&quot;.<p>Could you elaborate what makes this different from normal P2P WebRTC without a SFU? Do you feel that the claim of &quot;no latency&quot; is even possible&#x2F;reasonable regardless of the tech involved?

Hey how is this better than the Janus webrtc server? It&#x27;s been developed for a decade, and could flip a page like this in an hour or so. I&#x27;m genuinely curious how you could surpass it in stealth, like minus the marketing fluff.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;janus.conf.meetecho.com&#x2F;videoroomtest.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;janus.conf.meetecho.com&#x2F;videoroomtest.html</a>

We changed the title from &quot;Show HN: Zipcall.io – Peer to peer browser video calling with no latency&quot;. Show HN is for sharing something that you&#x27;ve personally created (please see the rules: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;showhn.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;showhn.html</a>). And &quot;no latency&quot; sounds more baity than reasonable.

So is p2p really bad when dealing with lots of users? Because now instead of you sending your video to a central server, you are now having to send your video to every single person while still receiving the video of everyone. So your upload usage must go through the roof.

To achieve &quot;no latency&quot;, you have to remain completely still.

I am excited for more open-source video-calling tools, but I am also confused by how this &quot;provides video quality and latency simply not available with traditional technology.&quot;<p>A quick glance at the readme suggests that this negotiates peer-to-peer connections using Twilio. But it&#x27;s not just that it&#x27;s p2p, right? Since there are a ton of p2p video-calling tools out there, most memorably to me the original Skype before Microsoft bought it.

I tried this with friends, and from my phone to their laptop (and another&#x27;s desktop), it didn&#x27;t work.<p>In comparison, Jitsi sort-of worked on the same devices (but screen share was limited to 5 FPS).

Tried it out with a friend, both of us living close by, on ethernet, both on the same gigabit fiber ISP.<p>It was the same bad WebRTC quality, perhaps even worse as my video preview was really laggy.

Does this work smartphones or tablets via specific browsers?

There are many comments with P2P and serverless together. How can this work when the users are not on the same network?

Nice, only missing one essential feature (unless I can&#x27;t find it): the ability to set the device I&#x2F;O.

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jitsi.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;jitsi.org&#x2F;</a> diff?

Every tom, dick &amp; harry now with WebRTC &amp; TURN servers is here.

Nice work, some really nice touches in the UX. Keep working on it!

Great marketing page. Gotta love the fluff!

There&#x27;s another post on Show HN right now with this same link.

I tried it out with my friend and not gonna lie the video quality was really good. And screen sharing is a nice feature. +1 for open source