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Play responsibly

Power Hour is entertainment software. It is not a drinking game scoreboard and it does not track what anyone consumes. Choose your own challenge. Water counts, sitting one out counts, and you can take a break at any point without losing your place.

Media rights. In YouTube mode, clips stream directly from YouTube's embedded player. Power Hour does not download, proxy, cache, re-encode or extract audio from YouTube content, and produces no exportable file from it. If you upload your own media, you confirm you hold the rights to use it.

How playback works

Clips play inside YouTube's own embedded player. We tell it which video and which second to start on, and it does the rest.

Power Hour never downloads, copies, re-encodes or stores YouTube video or audio, and never draws anything on top of the player. The round number, the song title and the clock sit in a panel beside the video, or underneath it on a phone.

If a clip turns out to be blocked, private or unavailable, the round is swapped and the party keeps going.

How everyone stays on the same second

One device in the room keeps the clock, and every change it makes is published as a numbered event. Your device replays those events in order, so two phones can't end up believing different things.

Small differences are left alone, because correcting them is more disruptive than the drift. A bigger gap gets nudged back into place quietly. A device that's fallen far behind reloads the round at the right spot.

If the host's device disappears for fifteen seconds, anyone still in the room can take over and the night continues.

Where the extra songs come from

You can start with three songs. We keep at least five upcoming rounds stocked so the music never stops.

Anything you add takes over one of those slots. We never replace a song a person picked, and we never change the round that's playing or the two after it, because pulling a song out from under the room is worse than a filler track.

Auto-picked rounds are labelled in the queue, and the host can clear them or turn the whole thing off.

What we ask for

Guests need a display name. That's it. Camera and microphone are off by default and nothing in the app needs either.

A profile photo is optional. It's cropped and shrunk in your browser before it goes anywhere, and removing it puts your drawn avatar back.

Your milestones are private. There's no public leaderboard and no way to browse other people's history.

Demo mode

Without a database configured, the app runs in demo mode with invented parties and a simulated player, labelled on screen at all times.

Demo songs are stand-ins. Nothing is streamed and no request is made for media that doesn't exist.

Public rooms

There aren’t any yet, and there’s no random matchmaking. Private rooms and saved crews work today. Anything wider needs reporting, blocking, muting, host reputation and real moderation first, so that’s the order we’re building in.