How It Started

Started as a fun project late this year, we decided to build it into a full-fledged website for students to interact with each other. Our aim is to help facilitate conversation among students and reduce the communication gap. Inspired by the Video Chat-Roulletes available in the market we decided to build one specifically for our college.

Technologies Used

We initially thought of using MongoDB as the database for this project but then resorted to firebase. It is because firebase is helpful in authenticating users and also it offers a realtime database for random match-making. We tried using firebase as the signalling server for our project but it was too complex for us to implement. That's why we used JavaScript's PeerJS library for handling the calls between connected peers. The website itself is based on vanilla HTML,CSS and JavaScript.

Future Prospects

Currently our website is limited to connections made over mobile data because NAT traversal is a huge issue in our institution. It is because of the firewall security rules that we are limited to use the STUN servers. In future we are hoping to implement a TURN server when normal connection cannot be established.