This is a tiny little thing that me and a frequent collaborator [0] wanted to express in these challenging times. What if people miss something as awkward and forgettable as elevator small talk?
Right now, there are virtual places where we can meet, collaborate, do yoga, talk about books, watch content together, and rave. This virtual space gives you an analog that is a little more from the daily inbetween times.
After long days of video calls at work, we ended up doing more video calls each evening to get this wrapped up. Overall this small concept took four weeks to finish. In the process I primarily learned that there have been notches in screens for a few years now.
The whole thing is built with Clojure and ClojureScript. And largely leveraged Sente [1], a wonderful front+back end WebSocket story. The characters are customized from the amazing Open Peeps library [2]. And there is some more info in the (?) on the website for the curious.
I am curious about what this community thinks about little, possibly zen, distractions like this?
1. Restrict it to 3-4 people max in each elevator. 2. Add in audio and close the room in 1 minute.
It's really well documented and made the whole process a lot less work. It works great for angular apps.
There doesn't seem to be a ton of services in this space and for larger teams working on the same product I see this solving an actual problem.
Congrats on launching, excited to see where this goes.