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Cursor Dance Party (cursordanceparty.com)
179 points by KerrickStaley on May 14, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 37 comments



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.


Warning: ^ link is NSFW


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.


> The current video was composited 3 years 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.


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


only shipping, likely this is hosting.


What's the point of shipping a project that can't be hosted?


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.


This is the Web3 we need, but not the one we deserve.


"Application Error" for me.

Another website killed by HN?


No, it's hosted on Railway and most likely crossed the 5 dollar monthly free allowance, they shut down webapps then.


Sad little mobile users are sad. And little. And immobile.


Is there an alternative copy, I only get https://railway.app/error-pages/project-error?domain=www.cur... ?


This is more fun than it should be - reminds me of jumping around cells in a shared google sheet


I remember me and my friends played “tag” by landing on top of each other’s cells.


https://cursordisco.ytmnd.com/

Reminiscent of this internet classic :)


Nice to see the web being used properly for a change! :-)


One similar thing I'd like to see is a global voice chat room with directional audio


They do exist. I used https://www.gather.town/ during lockdown and found it worked quite well.


Now that is fun.


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.


I figured out how to get infinite sized cursors ;)


It's like a bonus level!


Even though the website isn't working right now I immediately know what it is. Fun idea!


Sick implementation; but perhaps an epilepsy warning would be apt for some of the animations.


Hah. Thank you =). Great fun.


Fun site, but we need more fun colors for a proper dance party!


Now this is the kind of stuff I love visiting on the web


I can finally properly flex my osu! skills


Funny site.


I'm pretty sure this doesn't work properly in Firefox. Very sad to see that Chrome 101 == IE6.


I have no issues on Firefox. Check your settings and plug-ins perhaps?


You know what, it might've just been that nobody was on it. :) The javascript console error still exists even if it works.


It crashed for me after 10 seconds in Firefox.


Works fine in LibreWolf, which is Firefox with half its features patched out for security reasons...


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.




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