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Show HN: Storytime – open-source screen-sharing with live chat

3 pointsby areichertover 4 years ago

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areichertover 4 years ago
Storytime [0] is a new screen-sharing product that we&#x27;re adding on top of our core offering, which is an open source live chat tool [1]. Our long term goal is to provide an open source alternative to Intercom, but this is something that a lot of our users have been asking for in the meantime :)<p>Storytime is built on top of the amazing rrweb [2] library, which captures snapshots of DOM mutations and streams them over a secure Phoenix channel (websocket over wss) [3] to a page in our dashboard.<p>It doesn&#x27;t persist any of this data, and the streaming only starts when you trigger it (so your website isn&#x27;t constantly streaming these events through a websocket unnecessarily). And since we&#x27;re open source, if you&#x27;re concerned about privacy, you can always just host it on premise :)<p>Would love any feedback!<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;papercups-io&#x2F;storytime" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;papercups-io&#x2F;storytime</a><p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;papercups-io&#x2F;papercups" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;papercups-io&#x2F;papercups</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rrweb-io&#x2F;rrweb" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rrweb-io&#x2F;rrweb</a><p>[3] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hexdocs.pm&#x2F;phoenix&#x2F;channels.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hexdocs.pm&#x2F;phoenix&#x2F;channels.html</a>