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.