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

The scripts are hilarious, yet not inaccurate. I can't stop chuckling. 'Are you happy with that?' 'Happy is a strong word' 'OK' moves on to the next topic

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.

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...

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)

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

If you can't tell people you want to concentrate on your work, there's either something very wrong with where you work, or you.

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

Where's the HR-faced "Can everyone turn on their cameras please?" one with 200 people in the call.

Reminds me of the fake Windows Update page.

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?

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/

Fantastic product! Needs people talking over each other for greater authenticity, I reckon.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I'm not getting any audio, bunch of 404s on loop.m4a... anyone else?

EDIT: seems like British audio does work

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.

Simple solution for focus time. If it stops people from setting up an actual meeting for something that fits in an email, it is already doing critical infrastructure work.

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

Nice, it's got real Interdimensional Cable vibes.

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

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

Can we just be honest?

Awesome, if I worked in the UK.

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