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Sharkord - an open-source self-hostable Discord alternative with voice, video, and real-time messaging. (sharkord.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Came across this on the r/selfhosted community. Still very much in the alpha stages, but it's already got a Docker image you can try out for yourself, or try out the demo server.

Tried it earlier today, couldn't get the voice/video chat to work right away on my self-hosted setup but the real-time chat was very snappy. Looks promising.

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[–] 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Absolutely not impossible for a skilled dev with lots of free time. This is still an Alpha after all.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Building the full stack of a functional real-time voice and video comms system as a lone dev is not a trivial undertaking.

    Even if they put 40/wk or more into it, I'd still be impressed. Like I said, not impossible but these people are rare.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    WebRTC is a thing. You don't have to build all that from scratch. It's very reasonable to piece together a lot of standard technologies to make this progress much quicker. I haven't looked into this project, so I don't know, but I know it was pretty trivial to setup a WebRTC app 10 years ago, which would appear to be a fully functioning video app.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Completely agree. If this is a skilled Dev who's built products like this before and you can build something like this in your afternoons and weekends in like 6 months without LLM tool assistance.

    With basic assistance you can definitely cut that time down to 4 months or less easily.

    And if this is a full-time project, you can probably get it out the door in 1 to 2 months with llm assistance. (Not vibe coding, two very different things)

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