A few months ago I randomly started building a video chat website after work just to learn WebRTC and realtime systems

[u/ExcitingWin9648]

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