Inspiration
We wanted a stripped down version of screensharing that was faster and smoother. We wanted this to compliment your experience with applications such as discord in watching movies or videos with friends without compromising quality.
What it does
It lets users watch videos and navigate youtube (for now) together with just a chrome extension.
How we built it
We used google cloud services provided to us to build a relay server to communicate between all the client side chrome extension peers. We used socketIO to accomplish this. We worked with different js listeners to ensure smooth playback.
Challenges we ran into
We ran into various issues integrating different technologies and we were new to different features provided by the chrome extensions and configuring the google cloud server to reliably work with socket technology.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We are proud of the simple application we made to make all our lives a little easier and encourage us to spend more time with our friends.
What we learned
We learned that coding with friends is fun and its cool to get to learn new technologies.
What's next for WebSync
We hope to include more websites in our catalog and add additional features like synchronized scrolling and text highlighting.
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