Stealth app startup I'm working on: Wall Cruising. Find people within a few feet of you looking to chat at the club. Then be able to chat when you're both online after you part ways.

@mauve so some sort of "nearby chat" system that exchanges usernames like the #bump #app?

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@kkarhan I'm thinking either bluetooth or Wifi Aware so there's zero cloud infra. Just direct transfer phone to phone.

@mauve #Bluetooth would make most sense, as even if you were to transfer like vCard files over original Bluetooth speeds (732,2 kbit/s) that would be convenient and fast enough.

Problem may arise supporting #iOS as that only supports sending pictures, so you gotta have to do like some "Airgapped Transfer Protocol" thingy and like #MattKC shove it into a PNG of a QR-Code
As for the chat itself, you could use #WebRTC infrastructure like #WebCall or just mandate people to have like an #XMPP+#OMEMO account somewhere…

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