A real-time multiplayer tool for development teams to point stories, a-la "poker" type games.
No accounts, no ads, no nonsense. Just go to the site, enter your name, join or create a team (and invite others), and go!
Point Collab uses Astro as the primary server, which uses Vite under the hood for building. It uses React for all SPA functionality. Finally, data persistence and realtime features that make the app work are done with Pocketbase.
Point Collab was designed to be used without an account of any sort. No email signup, no SSO, no nothing. Each connected client (browser/localstorage instance) generates a uuidv4 to uniquely identify that client, and uses that ID when creating a UserState object for a given team. UserState contains all relevant session data that is not Team-wide, and changes to both of these models are read in realtime by the frontend.
This means that a user, especially admins, will have to consistently use the same device, or just create new teams. This is seen as an acceptable concession in order to not require accounts.
npm install
npm run dev
You will also need an accessible and correctly-configured Pocketbase instance (>=v0.20 for realtime support) for data persistence and realtime. It should be easy to configure a new instance based on the src/types/ directory.
Any host that can support running Astro in SSR mode with node should work. Additionally, a host that can run either the Pocketbase executable or run/host a Dockerfile and offers persistent storage is necessary.
The "canonical" site built from pushes to main on this repository runs on Railway, and uses their "Persistent Volumes" feature, as well as this dockerfile.
If you do host this app anywhere that is not the "canonical" site, make sure to change the privacy page to something that makes sense for you.