Jam - Your own open source Clubhouse for mini conferences, friends

Hi everyone! 🍞 Jam is a lightweight implementation of audio spaces (think: Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces, Orbit, …) that runs in any modern browser on iOS, Android, macOS, Windows, Linux or perhaps even your smart fridge. It is a bit like Zoom, just without video, screen sharing and messaging. Another way to think of Jam is group calls with a simple ui. You see who is in the room, who is speaking, who isn't speaking, who agrees (fast microphone flashing) who might want to say something (slow microphone flashing) and so on. Not less but also not more (!) @doublemalt, @mitschabaude and me did a 1 day hackathon to get basic audio calling over WebRTC working and then fixed a few bugs over the last few days. Still early but far enough to get some first impressions from all of you. Thanks for giving Jam a try!

As an Android user i fully support this!

This is pretty cool & very timely. I actually discovered it by searching on duckduckgo and thought it was posted "7m" - 7months ago, lol. Where can I see the code?

It always makes me happy when there's open source communication tools available. I'm a big advocate for being able to self-host and trust in the tools you use. Do you have plans to make self-hosting a one-click thing, so that also non-DevOps-sophisticated users can run their own private instance without having to learn server administration?

Thanks for open sourcing this. Very cool, @__tosh.

Have been using this for a bit and I'm just amazed at how completely frictionless it is, no app required, no plug-ins, no pre-release browser-features or running on iOS only, no invites and no phone number verifications, no tracking and no basic/premium upsells—none of that. It literally is just one click and you are live. Not even an account is needed. This has to be one of the quickest ways to jump on an ad-hoc call with someone I've seen. No meet-up calendar invite, no Zoom-client download. Why did it take the Clubhouse hype for this to suddenly appear and be used widely? Really curious to see where it goes and if it can withstand the upcoming traffic.

No invites and works in browsers, awesome!

Easily accessible cross device / platform + open source = totally my jam!

Absolutely love that jam icon

This is just pure webRTC? Is there a media server or it is just browser to browser?? I like the concept and that it's open source. You might consider adding a media server, so you can merge audio into one and only publish one listen stream. It is much more efficient that way. Many more people can listen in, where with pure webRTC it gets browser heavy very quickly. Also there are a lot of countries and times, where webRTC will fail. Good work!

Wow. I like

Can you talk about the infrastructure? Where is it hosted so we can understand the #privacy and security issues? Clubhouse is hosted on Chinese infrastructure that the government has access to from what Ben Thompson at Stratechery says in his latest post.

It's a really cool product! I'm just curious about the log policy. Does the Jam server store our conversations? If so, 1) how long will it keep? 2) what's the purpose? To sell the audio data and advertise? To provide to the police or court if requested?

Super cool, Thanks for open sourcing it! Love it

Great one! Thanks to make it open source.

Really sweet app! @DoubleMalt got me to try it a few days ago and it was so easy to jump in. No installation necessary – it just works!

Awesome idea and really impressive you launched Jam in less than 2 weeks. Interested to see how events / conferences will use something like this to connect to the audience.

Love the concept of creating an open source version of a product that is about to be copied by everyone. Also, impressed how well it works on my browsers, great stuff

Increadible idea, you're so fast, the product works great!

Great idea & love the name:) It's awesome that you directly open-sourced it, I can also see this running as a successful one-click service in the future.