Sunil Pai, founder and CEO of PartyKit, joins the show to talk about PartyKit, an open-source tool for creating collaborative, multiplayer applications. They discuss the evolution of real-time technology, the features and benefits of PartyKit, and the landscape of collaborative tools. They also explore building on cloud infrastructure for scalability and the structure and roles of the founder team. A fun and informative episode!
Party Kit enables seamless collaboration and real-time experiences for various industries and needs.
Party Kit is used by W-Conf to power their chat button, SiteGPT to create a chatbot with human support, and Stately for building and managing state machines.
The founders of Party Kit prioritize building a reliable infrastructure, offering starter kits and exploring partnerships to expand their services.
Deep dives
Building Multiplayer Chat for Conferences
Party Kit was used to power the chat button for W-Conf, allowing thousands of users to click and receive events seamlessly.
Adding Human Support to Chatbots
SiteGPT utilized Party Kit to create a chatbot with the ability to call in human support agents, providing a seamless experience for users.
Enabling State Machines in the Cloud
Stately used Party Kit to power their product, Statey Sky, which allows users to build and manage state machines for workflows and collaboration.
Flexible use cases for Party Kit
Party Kit offers a broad range of use cases for collaboration and real-time experiences. It allows for easy integration of features like live updating buttons and provides a platform for building games, educational technology, and emergency response infrastructure. With optimized performance for gaming and the ability to handle large concurrent users, Party Kit is positioning itself as a versatile solution for various industries and needs.
Building a solid foundation and future plans
The founders of Party Kit prioritize building a reliable infrastructure that other organizations and developers can build upon. They aim to collaborate with interesting people and organizations, rather than competing with existing players. Party Kit plans to offer starter kits, libraries, and helper tools for gaming and other use cases. Additionally, they are exploring partnerships to expand their services, including audio and video streaming capabilities. The company is focused on providing a solid foundation for others to build upon and empowering users to create real-time collaborative experiences.
With a name like PartyKit, you know we just had to get its founder and CEO Sunil Pai on the show! PartyKit is an open source tool that simplifies creating collaborative, multiplayer applications. Join us to learn all about it and the journey of Sunil and his team!
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