Fleeting is a website that plays realistic, plausible meeting audio to help you avoid people who want your time. Choose a meeting, pick your name and accent, and press play. Put it on speaker in the background, and anyone nearby will assume you are busy. You can also block out your calendar by adding a fake meeting, so you look occupied before anyone asks. The invite links back to the site, so when the reminder pops up you can join it.
Each meeting runs about twelve minutes and starts at a random point, so you will not hear the same opening line twice in a row. When you are ready to leave, press "Leave" or "I have to drop." The other participants say goodbye before the call ends. With "Back-to-back meetings" ticked, the site joins you to another meeting that suits the time of day once the first one finishes. Untick it, and the meeting loops instead.
Every voice is synthetic, and the faces are AI-generated or licensed stock footage. Every name is invented except John Carroll, who made the site and sometimes sits in with his camera off. No real meetings are recorded.
On a computer, the call goes full screen when you join, and you can press F to toggle it. On a phone, use your browser's "Add to Home Screen" option and open Fleeting from there, so it runs full screen like an app.
Source: Hacker News · Summarized by HeadlinesBriefing