I'm Seth, creator of discourse.fm, a browser-based tool/platform to create live audio chat rooms.<p>I just launched an extension of the site - https://hackernews.discourse.fm/ - which pulls stories in real-time from the HN site using the public API, and enables anyone to join a live audio discussion about the story (think Clubhouse rooms autogenerated for HN stories). Once you enter a room, you can grab the link generated for a room and paste it back to the comments on the HN story to invite more participants.<p>hackernews.discourse.fm is both a full-fledged product and a demo of how discourse.fm can be used to create live audio communities. HN is an ideal for this, as it benefits from its synchronicity, similarly-minded users, and it's basically a non-stop source of interesting discussion topics. That being said, almost any consistently active text-based community, forum, or news site could likely benefit from integrating live audio discussions. If you're interested in how you can use discourse.fm to accomplish this, let me know at info@discourse.fm.<p>I'd love to hear feedback about what I've built. It would be especially cool (and very meta) to discuss this live using the room on the hackernews.discourse.fm site.<p>Link to site: https://hackernews.discourse.fm/<p>Link to room: https://www.hackernews.discourse.fm/live/show-hn-hacker-news-discourse-turns-hn-stories-into-clubhousestyle-audio-rooms
Here is the resulting discourse for this story - come talk to me!<p><a href="https://www.hackernews.discourse.fm/live/show-hn-hacker-news-discourse-turns-hn-stories-into-clubhousestyle-audio-rooms" rel="nofollow">https://www.hackernews.discourse.fm/live/show-hn-hacker-news...</a>
Great idea! I'll keep using the main hacker news site, but I'd love an easy way to go from a hacker news story to the related audio discussion. I'd probably use a chrome extension that takes me from a website to its related discourse.fm audio discussion.
Wow, this is a really cool idea, and I love the platform behind it! Reminds me of the old Anchor.fm. I can definitely see it riding the upswell of proximity and private chat room apps. Only question from me: how do you do moderation in these audio rooms? I know on Clubhouse it works so that there's a couple of speakers that control the room and talk while everyone else listens.<p>A post on HN earlier today highlighted some of the problems with this approach - such as these speakers spreading misinformation and not much moderation from Clubhouse staff. Just something to keep in mind as you grow your service. For reference, you can find that discussion here:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26093004" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26093004</a><p>Good luck!
Idea is cool. Try to club other sources as well to make it accessible for non-tech users.<p>I'm assuming it's a MVP to test the product. Kudos.<p>It Definitely needs an improvement, UI, audio, etc.<p>Bookmarked the app already.