"Making Webapps Collaborative with Composable CRDTs" by Matthew Weidner and Heather Miller

Matthew Weidner was a student of Martin Kleppmann. He made collabs, a typescript CRDT library similar to Yjs or Automerge.

As a transport protocol he uses a matrix group chat, which I find really interesting. The app itself then is displayed as an element custom widget.

Fun quote:

In the single user case, you could just make it in the weekend, put it up and forget about it.
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Basically at this point, you are thinking of quitting your job and starting a startup, all just to add collaboration to this app.

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Very interesting! Collabs is new to me.

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