Party on PartyKit

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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Sponsors:

• Appwrite – Build Fast. Scale Big. All in One Place. Appwrite is a backend platform for developing Web, Mobile, and Flutter applications. Built with the open source community and optimized for developer experience in the coding languages you love.

Featuring:

• Sunil Pai – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Christopher Hiller – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• PartyKit
• PartyKit source code
• PartyKit pre-seed funding internal announcement
• PartyKit Tech Crunch pre-seed funding announcement
• TLDraw - a collaborative digital whiteboard
• TLDraw source code
• CRDTs - Conflict-free replicated data
• Yjs - A CRDT framework with a powerful abstraction of shared data
• Vite conf
• PartyKit at Vite Conf
• Cloudflare Durable Objects
• Cloudflare CDN
• XState - is a state management and orchestration solution for JavaScript and TypeScript apps
• Stately - a visualization platform for XState machines
• Drifting in Space
• Live Blocks

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Timestamps:

(00:00) - It's party time, y'all
(00:39) - Sponsor: Appwrite
(03:11) - Welcoming Sunil
(05:37) - Getting to know Sunil
(11:33) - Sunil on immigration
(14:11) - What is PartyKit?
(31:22) - How Cloudflare primitives help
(36:25) - On durable objects
(39:28) - More players is good
(40:48) - PartyKit's value prop
(43:30) - EVERYONE in the world
(48:33) - The developer experience
(52:19) - Success stories
(59:09) - Is npm necessary?
(1:05:22) - Audio/video plans
(1:07:05) - Let's talk pricing
(1:08:40) - Company structure
(1:11:42) - On raising funds
(1:16:28) - Game SDKs
(1:18:29) - Talking to young Sunil
(1:21:24) - Connecting with Sunil
(1:22:35) - Next up on the pod

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