Conversations Without Borders

There was a time when I really loved the concept of Omegle, the idea that I can just login to a website and randomly connect with strangers in this world was fascinating. With this idea in mind and a issue with my internet led to thinking why should I only connect on video, also there was a curiosity to understand how this whole thing works.

Sometimes, the best learning happens when you just build something for fun.
Chatrooms was exactly that — an experimental project to explore Go, WebRTC, and WebSockets.

There were some reasons to take on this side project –

• To create something like Omegle, only for texting
• To learn Go and it’s core concepts like Routines and Channels
• To become comfortable with WebSockets

The idea was simple:
At the initial stage, we will have a fixed number of rooms with limit of people to join. Each room would have a token, which needs to be used to join the room and chat. No sign-ups, no pressure, just digital campfires where strangers could talk.

Then later, I would add role management, where we can create admins and then they can create rooms and their own tokens, which they can share to people for joining their room.