One thing to help fix this is for the VC community to become more comfortable with (and even encourage) funding rounds which allow founders and early employees to get some liquidity from their equity. Taking a company from idea to IPO usually takes the better part of a decade (or longer), and it's pretty unfair to ask people who have already risked a lot to keep living on peanuts and hoping that some unforeseen situation which may be largely beyond their control doesn't send the value of their equity to zero before they get to IPO.
Good question about pricing. Right now it's free; longer term I haven't decided yet. The three options that come to mind are donations, advertising, or freemium (i.e. free up to N players or other such limitations). Each has pros/cons.
Re: collaboration, shoot me an email and we can discuss - justin at vcgamenight.com.
As the name suggests, this web app is meant to help groups of friends play some common party games (Cards Against Humanity, Taboo, Poker, etc.) over Video Chat.
As the name suggests, this web app is meant to help groups of friends play some common party games over Video Chat. Frontend is Angular 2, backend is Node. Servers run on Google Compute Engine. I'd like to move to a higher level PaaS, but I want to maintain a websocket connection with each client to minimize latency, so I like the control that I have using VMs directly.
Happy to answer any questions about the architecture or implementation. I'd also welcome help if you think this sounds fun to work on.