Cursor Dance Party

[KerrickStaley]

https://www.cursordanceparty.com/

[ovaqre]

The band Light Light made a delightful interactive music video based on the same principle: http://donottouch.org. Sadly, it appears only a recording of it remains online.

[TimTheTinker → ovaqre]

Warning: ^ link is NSFW

[sosodev → ovaqre]

Amazing! It says at the end of the video "your pointer will be added to the video within the hour". I wonder if that's true.

[lelandfe → sosodev]

> The current video was composited 3 years ago.

[Hamuko]

https://railway.app/

>Bring your code, we'll handle the rest.

>Made for any language, for projects big and small. Railway is the cloud that takes the complexity out of shipping software.

Not massively convinced at the moment.

[justjake → Hamuko]

Founder of Railway here: Free Tier Hosted app that got shut down when HN traffic came a knockin'

OP might wanna consider putting in a credit card before trying to do HN scale next time

[hakre → Hamuko]

only shipping, likely this is hosting.

[lupire → hakre]

What's the point of shipping a project that can't be hosted?

[hifikuno]

Crazy this is ten years old. Or at least, it was shared here once ten years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=cursordanceparty.com

I like these fun examples, and the creativity of the person behind it.

[SheinhardtWigCo]

This is the Web3 we need, but not the one we deserve.

[maxicarlos08]

"Application Error" for me.

Another website killed by HN?

[schleck8 → maxicarlos08]

No, it's hosted on Railway and most likely crossed the 5 dollar monthly free allowance, they shut down webapps then.

[cwillu]

Sad little mobile users are sad. And little. And immobile.

[hakre]

Is there an alternative copy, I only get https://railway.app/error-pages/project-error?domain=www.cur... ?

[ttamslam]

This is more fun than it should be - reminds me of jumping around cells in a shared google sheet

[u2077 → ttamslam]

I remember me and my friends played “tag” by landing on top of each other’s cells.

[lelandfe]

https://cursordisco.ytmnd.com/

Reminiscent of this internet classic :)

[taylorius]

Nice to see the web being used properly for a change! :-)

[7373737373]

One similar thing I'd like to see is a global voice chat room with directional audio

[hnlmorg → 7373737373]

They do exist. I used https://www.gather.town/ during lockdown and found it worked quite well.

[anyfactor → hnlmorg]

Now that is fun.

[mike_hock]

I took only a cursory glance at the website. 2 cores at 100% and a cursor that didn't move. When that hadn't changed after 10 seconds, I went back.

[LugarOS]

I figured out how to get infinite sized cursors ;)

[JoshuaJB → LugarOS]

It's like a bonus level!

[hrdwdmrbl]

Even though the website isn't working right now I immediately know what it is. Fun idea!

[timeshore]

Sick implementation; but perhaps an epilepsy warning would be apt for some of the animations.

[youeseh]

Hah. Thank you =). Great fun.

[pingeroo]

Fun site, but we need more fun colors for a proper dance party!

[Group_B]

Now this is the kind of stuff I love visiting on the web

[TT-392]

I can finally properly flex my osu! skills

[LugarOS]

Funny site.

[solar-ice]

I'm pretty sure this doesn't work properly in Firefox. Very sad to see that Chrome 101 == IE6.

[GuestHNUser → solar-ice]

I have no issues on Firefox. Check your settings and plug-ins perhaps?

[solar-ice → GuestHNUser]

You know what, it might've just been that nobody was on it. :) The javascript console error still exists even if it works.

[brabel → GuestHNUser]

It crashed for me after 10 seconds in Firefox.

[brobinson → solar-ice]

Works fine in LibreWolf, which is Firefox with half its features patched out for security reasons...

[kyle_martin1]

Managed to make a massive cursor and it was broadcasted to the whole party. Had some fun hacking this with Chrome dev tools.

Was simple as breakpointing in dev tools on "mousewheel", setting h.scale = 15, and then resuming. Massive cursor and massive fun. I'm sure people were wondering how I got mine so big. Considering it was clamped to 1.

I've thought about injecting a non-zero number to crash the app or perhaps inject some XSS to run some fun code on everyone's machine but...I decided to be nice and not literally crash the party. ;-)

All that's needed to fix this "exploit" is to properly sanitize data on the way in. Classic example of why sanitizing I/O is important!

All in all-- fun app OP.