note for future: a port of GitHub - iojanis/Lity: Graph-based document editor with collaborative features could be also interesting
A “Menu” App which would essentially be a bunch of links to Posts or other Webxdc Apps.
The Menu could then be sent to the Home Screen to create a Project or for quick access to Posts or Apps without having to scroll or search for a buried App or Post.
Think of a Menu on a website as the concept.
So, it’s like “pinned messages” + “pinned apps”? For apps I believe there is already an “apps” tab, besides the “media” tab in chat details.
Seriously thinking of financial, payment or banking banking.
A shared PKPASS viewer where you can upload PKPASS files and export them to chats. Can be used to share discount cards within a group.
Search keywords: Yjs, P2P
Another way to look for candidates: search for the ones that use Yjs, and maybe specifically y-webrtc, or other P2P-related libs like Automerge. Such apps, given that they’re purely P2P and it’s not just a small part of them, can easily be adapted to webxdc with the webxdc-yjs-provider library.
Moreover, there’s probably no need to fork such apps to port them (see my post about forks).
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A voice call app. Given that WebXDC can use WebRTC. Signalling could be done using DeltaChat itself.
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No, it cannot, at least right now. But I have this funny idea:
WebXDCs support WebAudio API, e.g. you can add this code to hear incoming WebXDC updates:
if (update.serial === update.max_serial) {
beep(300);
}
function beep(freq) {
const context = new AudioContext();
const oscillator = context.createOscillator();
oscillator.type = "square";
oscillator.frequency.value = freq;
oscillator.connect(context.destination);
oscillator.start();
oscillator.stop(context.currentTime + 0.1);
}
Someone can use it to build a music tracker where users can collaboratively edit a music loop pattern by enabling and disabling individual “tiles”. It is easy to merge such WebXDC updates as each one only switches a single tile on or off.
I have posted a separate topic with an idea to create TiddlyWiki.xdc:
There is a JavaScript framework for creating board games: https://boardgame.io/
It might be interesting to add webxdc transport to it.
There is a curated set of high quality games at GitHub - freeboardgames/FreeBoardGames.org: FOSS platform for publishing boardgame.io games that can then be ported in batch.
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Well I wish it could support WebRTC. And yeah I’ve seen that idea. Funny but not usable in most usecases. On the other hand, the idea holger gives here is also interesting and possibly combine-able with WebXDC.
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Another idea: something like an IDE that can generate .xdcs, I’d say similar to codepen.io, jsfiddle.net, codesandbox.io .
I think it’s a great way to play around with webxdc - you wouldn’t have to install a bunch of tools to get started, and you could even do it on your phone.
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Code editors can get big, so not sure how much of an IDE can be fit into our webxdcs with the current size limit. Though I agree it would be really cool to have a small IDE for webxdc apps.
BTW we can make out templates work well with sites like stackblitz, like this Webxdc - Ionic React Webxdc Starter - StackBlitz so users would not need to install anything, just click on a link…
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Another idea: “stories” app
You know, like Instagram, WhatsApp, now Telegram, Signal.
Though I think it’s not really going to be as capable and useful as built-in stories can be because you rarely have a group chat that has all the people that you would like to see your story. E.g. you don’t have a group chat that has your school friends and university friends together.
Which is making me think of per-account instead of per-chat webxdc apps
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TOTP 2FA app, shared with users in the chat.
Inspiration was telegram, which has a mini app for this now, that stores secrets on telegram servers (probably in plain text), we can do this too, but encrypted (if your chat is encrypted) and usable to share tokens with a whole group.
Could additionally be protected/encrypted by a password that you type in to unlock for added security in unencrypted group chats.
design we can copy from google authenticator,
and we could use these lib otplib - npm and yjs?
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Maybe it would be possible to develop a webxdc app for this purpose that accesses a Pixelfed account and displays it in the internal browser. This way, other people’s inboxes wouldn’t be cluttered up. Not everyone wants to see the status of a contact.
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you can actually create a broadcast list with all the contacts you want, it will work as expected they will not see each other in the group, instead they will receive the app in a read-only “channel” (mailing list) that could be named “WofWca’s stories” then they can only see and not modify the app which is what you want, a read-only stories, the problem is that these broadcast are unencrypted currently, so yeah more native integration in delta chat core would be nice
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btw, in Durov’s channel he confessed that Telegram team really didn’t like or want to add stories at the beginning, more in Telegram where channels where already possible. even then they added it in the end because the big demand from the users, most of the contact requests for them was requesting to add these stories, like it or not, it is a fact most people like them and they are kind of a personal channel without too much compromise (auto-deletion of messages and sharing only with family and friends, people opt-in to see your “channel”/stories etc in your profile without cluttering they chat-list etc.)
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I made one:
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