A few months ago I randomly started building a video chat website after work just to learn WebRTC and realtime systems
At first I thought it would be a small fun project but it slowly turned into me spending nights fixing random bugs deployment issues OAuth problems MongoDB errors and moderation stuff
I dont really have a team and most of this was built while learning things along the way using documentation ChatGPT and AI tools
Now its finally usable and Im trying to improve it properly
One thing Ive realised while building this is how hard moderation and user safety actually is on realtime platforms
Still figuring out things like
better matching
NSFW prevention
making new users feel comfortable
reducing awkward dead chats
mobile experience
Would genuinely like to hear opinions from people who have worked on or used similar platforms