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Rate my app: HealCam, like chatroulette only "sicker" (healcam.com)

9 points by mudil ↗ HN
HealCam is a medical version of chatroulette. On the site people can connect with other patients with the same disease by using simple drop down menus (present choices:Diabetes, Weight Loss & Dieting, Depression, Cancer, Pregnancy and Childbirth, and Heart Disease).

We think that HealCam is the first fully themed chatroullette clone, at least for the medical field. Please check us out and let me know. Thank you, people!

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aymeric
Only one person online :(

Anyone wants to chat?

(The fact that I had to select a Topic before I could chat wasn't obvious to me even though I read the system message)

mudil
Sorry: We just launched it today. So the traffic is not there yet. But I would take an advice on how to build the traffic.:)
YooLi
Hope you have a good penis filter in place.
kimfuh
Sick people doing sick things. I can't believe pleasuring yourself online has gone viral.
tonystubblebine
My uncle just spent a few weeks in the hospital and now has a few more weeks at home recuperating. He's suffering wildly from boredom. Could this be a solution for that?
tommusic
Your instructions say to select a topic and then hit "Start", but the topic list is inactive until the user clicks the Start button.

It took me a little while to decide to stop following the instructions. I don't know what that says about me as a person.

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aw3c2
The headline made me think that it was a more obscene, pervert-supporting version of it.
dylanz
Some 30 second feedback after interacting with your site...

- Why the "Leave" button?

- What is the "Next/Find" button and what does it do?

- What is auto-find?

- Why can't you pick "all" topics?

I probably have more questions. I never found anybody to chat with even though there were 3 other users online (assuming the one odd out was available). Steal some of the UX from chat roulette, make it less complicated and more familiar.

Great idea though. I actually have quite a lot of information/opinion/experience about a lot of the topics you have listed, and would love to contribute.

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user24
> The procedure of actually having to do all that "work"

.... might be enough to raise the bar for trolls?

mukyu
I managed to connect to someone (even without being able to select a topic?), but I could not seem to get anything to work. I could not enter text in the textbox; however, if I clicked emotes some texted appeared half cutoff and yet I still could not actually send a message. Camera works in the flash settings dialog, but does not seem to work in the app either. I don't know about my partner but I never saw/heard/read anything if they sent it.