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Soul Chat

Soul Chat

Built: February 2, 2023

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Omegle-style random video chat, but matching is steered by shared interests you type in up front, and the app itself has a stake in whether the conversation goes well: reward tokens for a good match, not just a video feed.

Matching and rewards

You list your interests and land in a peer-to-peer video call. A "Reap Soul" flow lets you gift the person you're talking to Soul tokens (an ERC-20) and NFTs mid-chat, and the app surfaces mutual interests between you and your match to help the conversation actually go somewhere.

Video

Calls run over WebRTC via simple-peer, with Socket.IO handling the signaling exchange between peers to establish the connection; no video ever passes through a central server once the call is live.

Wallet and chain

Wallet connection goes through Web3Modal, targeting Polygon Mumbai testnet, with ethers.js handling the token/NFT contract calls behind the gift-and-reap flow.

Stack

  • SvelteKit, TypeScript, Tailwind
  • WebRTC (simple-peer) for peer video, Socket.IO for signaling
  • ethers.js + Web3Modal for wallet connect and on-chain token/NFT calls
  • Deployed on Vercel