Hello everyone, about a month ago I open-sourced my web app Peersuite. It’s peer-to-peer instead of having servers, and all data is encrypted in transit with AES-GCM algorithm.
Features:
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chat with channels, images, PMs, and file send ( no size limit)
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audio/video conferencing No hard cap on users but since it’s a mesh network it would degrade at over 15 users
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Screensharing tab, window, or entire screen
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whiteboard for diagrams/drawing
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group document creation/editing
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kanban board for task management
Since there is no server, you can download a workspace to an encrypted file to restore later, this saves you chats, documents, everything. This software is new, and still undergoing heavy development, but I think it’s a valid choice over closed source solutions with no encryption.
Currently you can use it on the web at https://peersuite.space/ Download desktop versions from github Download docker image from https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/openconstruct/peersuite
You can also install it as a PWA on desktop or mobile. I have an android port in the works, If anyone would like to test let that me know, and I’ll PM you for your email.
I’ve also done some initial work on a nodejs server so that you can keep a workspace open 24/7 effectively having a server.
Super happy to get any kind of feedback, positive or negative.
Tried this with some friends and the audio quality is great, screensharing is great. Generally working very well. Honestly the only thing preventing me from switching people over all the way more is the lacking a persistent session. In all regards though, great work! I’ll be following development closely, just make sure you don’t burn yourself out with scope creep, because I know everyone and their dog has ideas for you. Thanks for making this cool foss available to us.
Oh, I just saw your post about testing android- I’d love to if you need testers, though I will say I’m running grapheneos, not stock
Do you have the play store?
I do, yes. Just sandboxed
Looks like you may have to pm me an invite to a google group first
Well shit
should work I’ll PM you tomorrow if thats OK, not at my computer atm
If you want more testers, definitely open to it. Same with testing out the server if you’re interested in that. Just a homelab so can’t really do big tests but I’ve been interested in alternatives to Discord now that they’re clearly enshittifying
Meant to respond earlier, link doesn’t work:
same here, hit me up if you need testers!
Sure thing
This is a cool idea. We’re not super happy with slack at work but I admit we haven’t given matrix a proper go yet. Wish we could stop for like a year just to evaluate the stack and the toolset. I kid. Sort of.
I actually like Mattermost as a free slack alternative. Matrix is too complicated for normies and the encryption seems unnecessary on a local server.
You could also consider Zulip they have been around for a while as the succesor of IRC but never arose in popularity. I like their concept of #
tagsfor filtering messages inside a channel through #topics:)I’ve used that one as well and I’m not a fan. Its fine but it is super confusing to use.
Why are you not happy with slack? Like privacy wise or features?
Not OP, but I’ll chime in my reason: History. Messages older than… 30-day are only accessible for a fee. Even when you star/ pin those messages. It’s so hateful.
I see, yeah we pay for enterprise commercial licenses. Search is very good. Like in teams you can’t find shit. But slack can easily find anything
Yeah in an enterprise setting Slack is excellent at being a communication platform, but teams with powerautomate is pretty damn powerful
I have a hard time seeing how it competes with slacks millions of integrations. The only upside with teams is that it’s basically free with the rest of the office suite
Having used the slack work flow builder compared to Powerautomate, it’s really no contest you can do so much more with PA if you’re in the ms ecosystem
Extremely cool. I would love this if it had some persistence. Letting users host workspaces could be great.
I have a server in early testing.
To be honest even matrix has too many features for me as a discord alternative. I’ve got my IRC channels that I’m keen on and I hang out on those every day.
Realise I’m probably unusual for being happy with 90s tech though!
With Matrix’s CSAM and gore spam issues, I’ve been thinking about IRC more and more tbh.
Would this project be interested in having a relay server to mask communications between peers? It’d make this a slick solution for messaging between friends online.
That would increase anonymity for sure, but it’s not in the roadmap currently. I’m focused on improving the features, building a server and android for now. But it is a good idea
Looks cool!
Does the project support using a STUN/TURN server to help with connectivity for peers behind nat?
Yes it uses google/ twilio currently, i will add option to use custom.
Nice!
That’s pretty cool, great job!
Looks interesting. Good Job
thanks!
Docker free version?
In releases section of github are the electron desktop versions. You can also put it on almost any webhost and run your own instance
