Sorry, I'm in a meeting

splintersio 837 points 246 comments October 09, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (20 comments)

7174n6

Awesome, if I worked in the UK.

roryirvine

Truly uncanny! Only the British audio works for me, though - if I try American or International, the relevant meetings are silent with a "Join Audio" button which doesn't appear to do anything. (Firefox on MacOS, if that's useful)

kirugan

haha, now I can always use this website if I don't want to be interrupted lol

frangonf

This has real demand, I ended up in the Gitlab secondary youtube channel one day, ordering by most views, and I found a video [0] of a seemingly normal uninteresting meeting with millions of views. Turns out people were using this as an excuse for looking like they were busy. They disabled comments now but I saved some of them because I thought it was hilarious: I play this when I need my family to leave me alone - so helpful 4.5K I play this when I pretend to be busy. This meeting is literally about anything you want it to be about lol 1.5K I love that we all arrived at this video for the same reason 2.6K Every now and then I'll pause it at a good point in between them talking to make my own voice heard contributing to the "meeting" lol. Gets the full effect in! And the beautiful thing is their conversation just flows with it like they heard me lol. 562 [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBVtvOpU80Q

jonwinstanley

This is fun. The audio isn’t particularly believable. Not that it matters for this project. I’ve used a few tts providers and although a technical marvel they are all still easily identifiable as ai. Humans are very good at spotting fakes. This project might work better with mostly canned audio clips of real humans.

tacostakohashi

Reminds me of the "boss mode" / "boss key" in old games, like MS-DOS days, which would switch the screen to some spreadsheet mockup or suchlike, updated for the current century.

whilenot-dev

What are all the names for the category of such software... "Self-defense Software", "Busy Simulation Software", "Faux Work Software", "Fake Meeting Software"[0], "Virtual Meeting Simulator"[1], "Prank Screens"[2], ...? Are there many others? [0]: https://fakemeeting.app/ [1]: https://z.tools/t/fake-meeting [2]: https://www.whitescreen.online/

spuz

I am missing something about how this could hypothetically be useful. If I played this in the background it would be far too distracting to get any actual work done.

DharmaPolice

Trying to access this site on my corporate Windows laptop and it was blocked "by your IT admin" (in Windows itself, not the browser/proxy). So it's already on some kind of list.

ninkendo

Audio seems broken now, maybe hugged to death. Console: HTTP load failed with status 404. Load of media resource https://iminafleeting.com/media/people/standup-a.mp4 failed

ButlerianJihad

Or just follow Alberta Tech’s lead: https://youtube.com/shorts/FLz04Wr14AM?is=T1UpCpKLJPwd5PuS

voidUpdate

Do people in offices typically just blast meetings out of their computer speakers? Everyone I work with uses headphones so we're not disturbing other people in the office...

wkumfer

Please add other language versions! Should be easy to do, and would help us from non-English speaking countries.

arjonagelhout

Brilliant, this website is blocked at my work: "This content is blocked by your organization".

vermooten

I retired a few months ago. These calls have taken me back to the horror of working in tech. It must be what PTSD is like.

niek_pas

I'm not getting any audio, bunch of 404s on loop.m4a... anyone else? EDIT: seems like British audio does work

tome

Maybe a silly question, but without video isn't this obviously fake? Or is it normal for all participants on a call to be audio only?

TrackerFF

We need a fake teams / zoom UI with faces talking. You know, for those working in open plan.

dizhn

I'm gonna ironically make a Claude theme and use that if I ever hand write a site again. :)

aronhegedus

Minor but when I took myself off mute, my box didn't reflect that. Not sure if bug or a feature.

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