Building Couch Potato

Reflecting on the process of developing Couch Potato

We knew when we put Couch Potato — the Chrome extension that lets you watch Hulu shows together with friends—in the Chrome store that…

As of our last installment, which discusses how we built our Chrome extension that lets friends watch shows together on Hulu, we had…

As mentioned in our last Couch Potato installment, one of the toughest features we implemented in our extension that lets friends watch…

How to enable play/pause simulatiously on different browsers

In our last two posts, June and Caitlin discussed how we gathered UX feedback from our fellow classmates and then implemented it. The…

How we incorporated feedback to improve the user experience

In our last post, we discussed the importance of communication and collaboration skills during our developmental journey. Then what about…

Adapting our coding workflow for WFH

If you have a no-ads Premium account on Hulu, then you may know they recently rolled out a new feature called Watch Party, which allows…

So far in this blog series, we’ve talked a lot about how we got our chat room working for Couch Potato, the Chrome extension that lets you…

At this point in our project, we had a functioning chat website that allowed users to either start a new chat room or join an existing…

How we began utilizing React libraries to optimize our Chrome Extension

As mentioned in previous posts, we started building our chat website following different tutorials we found online that relied on pure…

Our biggest challenge to socket.io configurations for Couch Potato, a Chrome extension allowing users to watch shows together on Hulu from…

We knew all along the Couch Potato application — our Chrome extension allowing users to watch shows with friends while social…

How we began the process of developing a Chrome Extension allowing multiple users to stream video content together remotely

Have you used the Chrome extensions that let you watch movies and TV shows with your friends while safely social distancing at home? Tiger…