server/PLAN.md

ZK-Chat v2

Credential Storage

• Localstorage
  • Start with this, its easy, but not super secure
• Cryptkeeper?
• Sismo?
• Zupass?
• Walletconnect/metamask?

Group Creation

• Admin (me) can make groups
  • by invite code
    • Permission to add 1 identity commitment
• Gated Room Ideas (that you can watch, but can't participate in)
  • Steam Games!
  • ZK Stamps!
  • Events!
    • Devconnect

Types of Rooms/Groups

Type	Read	Write	Encrypted	Centralized	RLN Protected
Gated	Y	via link/code for specific room	N	Y	Y
-------	-------------	-------------------------------	-------------------	-----------	-------------
Public?	Y	via link/code for all rooms	N	Y	Y
Private	via link/code	via link/code for specific room	N	Y	Y
Secure	via link/code	via link/code for specific room	Y (shared password)	Y	Y
DM-P2P	via link/code	via link/code for specific room	Y (shared password)	N (p2p)	?

• Start with Gated Rooms

Open Questions

• P2P v Centralized?
• Rate Limits?
• Group Membership on contract?
  • Staking by tiers with different rate limits?
• Should messages be ephemeral/temporary? (the last day?)

Front End

discreetly.chat will be the front end and backend

Stack

• Nuxtjs
• websockets

Login

• Cryptkeeper
• Metamask
• Walletconnect
• Sismo
• Zupass

Back End

discreetly.chat will be the front end and backend

stakers.chat will be a standalone backend for eth stakers

Stack

• Javascript / Typescript
  • Node?
  • Libp2p?
  • Shorter development cycle
  • Dev process is annoying
  • One language stack which is nice
• Python
  • Library compatibility issues with RLNjs and maybe any other ZK libraries
  • I could write it really fast
  • I miss python

Database

• Libp2p?
• Waku?
• IPFS?
• Firebase?
• SQLite? <- Leaning this way, keep all config/registration stuff in sqlite, and all messages in RAM/ephemeral