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1901 points l2silver | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.246s | source

Maybe you've created your own AR program for wearables that shows the definition of a word when you highlight it IRL, or you've built a personal calendar app for your family to display on a monitor in the kitchen. Whatever it is, I'd love to hear it.
1. shri_krishna ◴[] No.35750406[source]
In a long distance relationship for almost 4 years now. We started dating just few months before COVID hit and lockdowns announced. That's when we discovered Zoom. We used Zoom as a way to keep connected. Initially it was great. We could keep the connection up for hours on end. However, Zoom started restricting time limits on free accounts (which meant we had to reconnect every 40 minutes or so). We tried different apps to see which works best but there were none that matched Zoom's quality or features (I specifically wanted PiP mode as I could keep working while being connected). So decided to code up my own barebones WebRTC app, hosted on Codesandbox, which uses Peerjs to establish connections. Video/audio streamed to HTML Canvas. With Pip mode. Extremely simple and barebones app. Been going good for almost a year now.