Anon Video Chat
Anon Video Chat is my latest web application, the premise is simple, anonymous video chat using webRTC for secure low latency browser to browser connections. This app assigns you a random channel ID everytime you load the page (you have the option on saving the current ID to your device to use permanently) you can call other channel IDs and if they answer a webRTC connection is set up between your two browsers and the live feeds start. In the future I plan on adding features like file and location sharing and possibly Bitcoin sending/receiving. No data is ever stored on my server making all actions anonymous. I decided to write this for a few reasons
- I wanted to sharpen my Vue.js skills
- I wanted to better understand webRTC
- I need to implement P2P chat in other applications
- I didn’t want to pay Twilio to do something I could do myself
Why Did I Choose To Release It?
The reason I chose to release Anon Video Chat to the public is because I believe in the philosophy of an open and free internet. Other video applications like Skype collect tons of metadata on you and in turn sell that data on you for a profit. In cases like these you are not the consumer but the product. Not only is this creepy but it affects the performance of the application by providing overhead with no benefit to the end user resulting in laggy performance.
Current Limitations Of Anon Video Chat
Until iOS11 is released later in the fall, Anon Video Chat will not work on iOS devices (blame them not me they decided not to implement webRTC until now!). Other than that it should work on Chrome, Firefox and Opera. If you notice that it doesn’t please email me and let me know jyrone.parker@gmail.com.
Needless to say I wrote this app in a few hours, you can tell by it’s current lack of features but as I stated above I will update it periodically. If the demand calls for it I will add whatever features you guys leave below in the comments. Also if you are interested in contributing to the project, drop your GitHub username in the comment section below and I will add you to the private repo!