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Work · April 24, 2014

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New project for on-demand chat rooms

I created a pet project to see if it is of use and interesting to people. The idea is on-demand real-time chat rooms for trending topics and for personal use. You can go to the main page at www.urshoutbox.com to create your own room then share it across your social networks/email, etc. I created a hacker news specific "shoutbox" at http://www.urshoutbox.com/bLmYAL/hacker-news . If nobody is in there, please be patient and (I hope) people will join soon to start talking. The idea is to have trending topics on facebook/twitter/etc and have chat rooms to get…

New project for on-demand chat rooms launched on April 24, 2014 with 37 votes, #528 of 1,174 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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UrShoutbox is a platform for creating on-demand real-time chat rooms around trending topics or personal interests. Users can generate a room on the main site and share it via social networks or email to discuss topics with others as they happen. The service addresses the limitations of comment sections on news sites and blogs by providing a dedicated space for faster, real-time conversations.

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I created a pet project to see if it is of use and interesting to people. The idea is on-demand real-time chat rooms for trending topics and for personal use. You can go to the main page at www.urshoutbox.com to create your own room then share it across your social networks/email, etc. I created a hacker news…

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