Yes. We're veterans of previous video startups. This is video meeting done right. It's not a big part of the product but it is important coz it means you don't need skype or hangout or whatever in addition to this.

I'm looking to write an open source app with basically similar video chat functionality. Could I ask what's the best way of implementing this?

I'm guessing WebRTC would be the way to go... once it is released at least

If you ping me on twitter I'll make sure you're prioritized. We are obviously wanted teams to try this to tell us what is good and what isn't. So if you're a team we want you basically.

I'm not going to advertize it that much (because I don't want to support people that way yet) but all the code behind teamchat.net is freely available on github.

Awesome :-)

That should be fixed.

Bigger ones now provided.

it's simple to build a simple one... but the more polished takes more time. Why not just offload that work to someone else? That's our view anyway. We've chatted to some potential clients and other companies running their operations this way.

I'll try and prioritize your teams access. Send us an email or hit me up directly on twitter: http://twitter.com/nicferrier

I know... I know. I prefer that too.

The trouble is this is for teams, you kinda have to have a team. We wanted to gauge interest so we've done it this way.

If we can we'll go live for collections of people (if there are 2 or 3 people from the same company email domain) this week or next.

Can you please make it clear on the register page that there is no publicly available product yet?

I had three guys from my team sign up so we could test it out, and only after signing up did we find out that it's not live yet.

will do. I'll also try and make sure you get prioritized for go live.

Can you publish your numbers afterward? Or just whether you thought it was worth it? (Or something along those lines)

I have seen this strategy recommended to gauge interest, but have always been wary of doing it myself (for exactly this reason: people being like "wtf? this isn't real?").

It is probably one of those things that should be done, even if it makes you uncomfortable.

That's basically it. We've worked on this for quite a while and I reckon we could just keep going... This way we can gauge interest and prioritize teams who sign up.

And yes. I will publish results later in the week.

awww man. templating. thanks for catching.

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they are now.

It's all emacslisp. Including the webserver (it's elnode). So there is an irc bouncer written in elisp tightly integrated with the elnode webapp. The bouncer uses a modified rcirc (built into emacs) to connect to the irc servers.

The robot framework is also written in emacslisp.

The irc servers are ngircd and the webserver is nginx.

Bomb-diggity. I saw your gravatar and immediately thought "Omy is this an el-node projet!?" Sweet.

I'm kinda surprised that people haven't picked up on that bit and asked questions. You'd have thought hackers would be interested in that bit :-)