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179 points by KerrickStaley 14 days ago | 37 comments
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ovaqre 14 days ago [-]
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 14 days ago [-]
Warning: ^ link is NSFW
sosodev 14 days ago [-]
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 13 days ago [-]
> The current video was composited 3 years ago.
Hamuko 13 days ago [-]
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 9 days ago [-]
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 13 days ago [-]
only shipping, likely this is hosting.
lupire 13 days ago [-]
What's the point of shipping a project that can't be hosted?
hifikuno 14 days ago [-]
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 14 days ago [-]
This is the Web3 we need, but not the one we deserve.
maxicarlos08 14 days ago [-]
"Application Error" for me.

Another website killed by HN?

schleck8 13 days ago [-]
No, it's hosted on Railway and most likely crossed the 5 dollar monthly free allowance, they shut down webapps then.
cwillu 14 days ago [-]
Sad little mobile users are sad. And little. And immobile.
hakre 14 days ago [-]
Is there an alternative copy, I only get https://railway.app/error-pages/project-error?domain=www.cur... ?
ttamslam 14 days ago [-]
This is more fun than it should be - reminds me of jumping around cells in a shared google sheet
u2077 14 days ago [-]
I remember me and my friends played “tag” by landing on top of each other’s cells.
lelandfe 13 days ago [-]
https://cursordisco.ytmnd.com/

Reminiscent of this internet classic :)

taylorius 14 days ago [-]
Nice to see the web being used properly for a change! :-)
7373737373 14 days ago [-]
One similar thing I'd like to see is a global voice chat room with directional audio
hnlmorg 14 days ago [-]
They do exist. I used https://www.gather.town/ during lockdown and found it worked quite well.
anyfactor 13 days ago [-]
Now that is fun.
mike_hock 14 days ago [-]
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 14 days ago [-]
I figured out how to get infinite sized cursors ;)
JoshuaJB 14 days ago [-]
It's like a bonus level!
hrdwdmrbl 14 days ago [-]
Even though the website isn't working right now I immediately know what it is. Fun idea!
timeshore 14 days ago [-]
Sick implementation; but perhaps an epilepsy warning would be apt for some of the animations.
youeseh 14 days ago [-]
Hah. Thank you =). Great fun.
pingeroo 14 days ago [-]
Fun site, but we need more fun colors for a proper dance party!
Group_B 14 days ago [-]
Now this is the kind of stuff I love visiting on the web
TT-392 14 days ago [-]
I can finally properly flex my osu! skills
LugarOS 14 days ago [-]
Funny site.
solar-ice 14 days ago [-]
I'm pretty sure this doesn't work properly in Firefox. Very sad to see that Chrome 101 == IE6.
GuestHNUser 14 days ago [-]
I have no issues on Firefox. Check your settings and plug-ins perhaps?
solar-ice 14 days ago [-]
You know what, it might've just been that nobody was on it. :) The javascript console error still exists even if it works.
brabel 14 days ago [-]
It crashed for me after 10 seconds in Firefox.
brobinson 14 days ago [-]
Works fine in LibreWolf, which is Firefox with half its features patched out for security reasons...
kyle_martin1 14 days ago [-]
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.