A video conferencing service – that rickrolls you

10 points by jeffalo ↗ HN
With everybody at home, something that is really important is video calling. And thus I show to you, my amazing creation "co-vid"!

But it's not actually a video calling service. It's a rickrolling service! Simply tell someone that you want to call them, and then tell them to use co-vid. https://co-vid.github.io/join then tell them some random meeting code to use and you're ready!

heres a sample conversation. you: "hey wana call" them: "sure, discord? zoom? "ect... you: "how about we try co-vid" them: "sure" you: "https://co-vid.github.io/join the meeting code is blahblah123" them: "alright" ... them: "do not speak to me again"

and there you go, that's co-vid in all its glory.

https://co-vid.github.io/

(ps. it sends the screen name and code to a request bin, so i can see how many people co-vid has gotten)

let me know what you guys think.

9 comments

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I love you. If only there was an autoplay feature.
YouTube should autoplay the video, at least it does on Chrome
Brilliant.

Could the video be changed to Rebecca Black on Fridays?

Thanks! I prefer the rickroll, however I can make a special case where if you input a specific code it'll be a "friday-roll". What should the code be?
tgif
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The code "tgif" will now take you to Friday.