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This has real demand, I ended up in the Gitlab secondary youtube channel one day, ordering by most views, and I found a video [0] of a seemingly normal uninteresting meeting with millions of views. Turns out people were using this as an excuse for looking like they were busy. They disabled comments now but I saved some of them because I thought it was hilarious:
I play this when I need my family to leave me alone - so helpful 4.5K I play this when I pretend to be busy. This meeting is literally about anything you want it to be about lol 1.5K I love that we all arrived at this video for the same reason 2.6K Every now and then I'll pause it at a good point in between them talking to make my own voice heard contributing to the "meeting" lol. Gets the full effect in! And the beautiful thing is their conversation just flows with it like they heard me lol. 562
The scripts are hilarious, yet not inaccurate. I can't stop chuckling. 'Are you happy with that?' 'Happy is a strong word' 'OK' moves on to the next topic
Reminds me of the "boss mode" / "boss key" in old games, like MS-DOS days, which would switch the screen to some spreadsheet mockup or suchlike, updated for the current century.
Audio seems broken now, maybe hugged to death. Console:
HTTP load failed with status 404. Load of media resource https://iminafleeting.com/media/people/standup-a.mp4 failedDo people in offices typically just blast meetings out of their computer speakers? Everyone I work with uses headphones so we're not disturbing other people in the office...
Truly uncanny!
Only the British audio works for me, though - if I try American or International, the relevant meetings are silent with a "Join Audio" button which doesn't appear to do anything. (Firefox on MacOS, if that's useful)
Make it a Zoom UI and I’m subscribing right now.
The audio level is quite high...I had to set my speakers audio level down to 20% so as not to annoy the cats
why would I want to be on fake meetings when I'm already in so many real meetings
This is quite relaxing as background noise I can safely ignore and work on my project in piece. Working solo all day at home can eat into my sanity :)
It's basically big corp ASMR.
We need a fake teams / zoom UI with faces talking. You know, for those working in open plan.
Brilliant, this website is blocked at my work: "This content is blocked by your organization".
If you can't tell people you want to concentrate on your work, there's either something very wrong with where you work, or you.
Where's the HR-faced "Can everyone turn on their cameras please?" one with 200 people in the call.
Not sure I understand the site. Each option just shows a grid of names (like a Zoom call) but there's no audio or video. The "How It Works" section implies there's audio at least, but not working on Desktop Firefox / Linux.
This is great, and the modern equivalent of the ancient "Fake Progress Bar" app that you could have on screen for the reassurance of bosses walking past.
This is hilarious but that API Design Review meeting is stressful AF. I can't have that on speaker anywhere near me and concentrate on anything else meaningful. Human voices are incredibly distracting unless there are enough of them to create a general background wall of sound - if I can pick out what individuals are saying, that's no bueno.
What are all the names for the category of such software... "Self-defense Software", "Busy Simulation Software", "Faux Work Software", "Fake Meeting Software"[0], "Virtual Meeting Simulator"[1], "Prank Screens"[2], ...? Are there many others?
For maximum plausibility, can you please add the "scope deliverable asset" lady voice track?
> Want to feature your product in a fake meeting? > Advertise with us →
Best monetization strategy for a shitpost I've ever seen!
Fantastic product! Needs people talking over each other for greater authenticity, I reckon.
I've just spent 20 minutes listening to a conversation about John Carol. Did you know...
Trying to access this site on my corporate Windows laptop and it was blocked "by your IT admin" (in Windows itself, not the browser/proxy). So it's already on some kind of list.
Audio doesn't work...
This is super creative!
Maybe a silly question, but without video isn't this obviously fake? Or is it normal for all participants on a call to be audio only?
This is not making me feel good about the real meetings I'm regularly in.
I retired a few months ago. These calls have taken me back to the horror of working in tech. It must be what PTSD is like.
This is fun. The audio isn’t particularly believable. Not that it matters for this project.
I’ve used a few tts providers and although a technical marvel they are all still easily identifiable as ai. Humans are very good at spotting fakes.
This project might work better with mostly canned audio clips of real humans.
I’ve disabled adsense so you guys can enjoy it with UX in mind - tho I have allowed for adverts to sneak into the meetings cough
Simple solution for focus time. If it stops people from setting up an actual meeting for something that fits in an email, it is already doing critical infrastructure work.
Wait a second is that ad thing ironical? Not a big fan of covert advertising.
I am missing something about how this could hypothetically be useful. If I played this in the background it would be far too distracting to get any actual work done.
Sorry, I cannot hear you, I'm kinda busy, K-kinda busy..
Minor but when I took myself off mute, my box didn't reflect that. Not sure if bug or a feature.
Please add other language versions! Should be easy to do, and would help us from non-English speaking countries.
coming from someone who is the farthest from an ai hater, these zero effort cookie cutter one shot claude sites are just bleh. Why would I bother using the site if you put in 0 effort
I'm not getting any audio, bunch of 404s on loop.m4a... anyone else?
EDIT: seems like British audio does work
is this the hacker typer of the new gen?
All Hands:
Worker: "I'd like to ask about pay review. The numbers look really strong, and some people are probably wondering if that's going to show up in review."
Exec: "That's a great question. I don't want to say anything I can't promise, but we're going to be looking at all our options and I'm sure we're going to look to reward great performance. Does that help answer your question?"
Sketch comedy writers, look out. This thing is sadly, hilariously, accurate.
Or just follow Alberta Tech’s lead: https://youtube.com/shorts/FLz04Wr14AM?is=T1UpCpKLJPwd5PuS
The ‘mixed’ accent option appears to be just British after all
Usefull!
Nice, it's got real Interdimensional Cable vibes.
At a past firm I managed a team of SREs.
This was very much a "fire drill all the time" kind of place (vs "slow and steady"). The team came to me and said:
"Alex, we keep getting bombarded by meeting requests and have no focus time."
My solution was to create a weekly "team meeting" from 8am to 11am every Friday and invite all of them to it.
They loved it!
I mentioned to them that making a meeting like this was something they could have done themselves but they responded:
"It carries more weight coming from you. Plus, if someone tries to schedule over it, they are more likely to think twice and/or I can say 'Hey, you have to talk to Alex.' "