Yes, had a deja vu moment there. I guess it was a similar game by someone else.

I made Stranger Video (the linked item)! Neal's a friend of mine and I gave him a (small) hand with eyechat.

We were originally going to collaborate more on eyechat but then One Million Checkboxes[1] blew up and I had to bow out

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40800869

I'd love to know more. Did he reach out to you? Was it the other way around?

What's the difference in two's codebases, if any?

we meet up on occasion to kick around ideas[1] - we're both in nyc and the 'people doing creative tech stuff in nyc' world is not that big. I think(?) we first met right after I made stranger video; we've batted around ideas about it for a while. Pretty sure this idea was from him!

There's probably 0 overlap in the codebase - 100% (or close to it) of the code is from Neal (the only code I wrote for this was a very early prototype that cropped out just the eyes, instead of the bar you see now). I sent him a couple of snippets from my codebase early on but mostly just gave pointers on my tech stack / chatted about some of the problems I ran into. Given the size of Neal's audience the default scale for a project he launches is pretty big!

Anyway, mostly wanted to clarify that the similarities between this and stranger video are intentional :)

[1] this is where the idea for one million checkboxes actually came from!

Always lovely to know how these things work in the background.

I love it when the web is used for something fun and not selling another subscription service.

Sent you an email btw, I had some thoughts that I wanted to talk about