I feel the same way. The initial magic of real-timeness felt like a glimpse into a future that... where is it?

I'm still excited about the prospects of it — shameless plug: actually building a tool with one-of-a-kind messaging experience that's truly real-time in the Google docs collaboration way (no compose box, no send button): https://kraa.io/hackernews

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JusticeJuice 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

That's a really cool project! The realtime message aspect reminds me a bit of https://honk.me/, but for like, docs.

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nwienert 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Agreed, I did a talk about exactly this earlier this year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjV3Dm5giko

	▲	JusticeJuice 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Interesting talk. I think it's just a matter of making tooling where it's so easy, cheap, and simple enough that doing realtime doesn't introduce any extra time cost to a business compared to CRUD.