Mikoto

The Most Overkill Messaging App in the World.

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Mikoto is an messaging platform designed for building online communities. It uses a thread-based structure for text messaging, voice/video chat, and real-time collaborative wiki editing.

Features

Note: Mikoto is still in early development. Some of these features are not fully implemented.

• ✨ Open Source (with proprietary extensions for enterprise support)
• ⚡️ Superuser friendly features, like tab view, zen mode and, keyboard shortcuts and more
• 📡 Voice, video, and screen sharing
• 📝 Real-time collaborative wiki channels
• 🧵 Next-generation thread management
• 🏡 Threaded DMs and group DMs
• 🎨 Customizable themes and appearances

and upcoming features:

• 🪐 DID-based usernames
• 🔒 E2E encrypted DMs and Group DMs
• 🔍 Semantic search across all channels
• 🔌 Pluggable architecture for custom extensions
• 🛒 A marketplace for extensions and integrations
• 🌎 Built-in community finder
• 🥸 A system to handle multiple personas and identities

Setup

# install dependencies
yarn install

# start services (PostgreSQL, Redis, MinIO, etc.)
docker-compose up

# set up database
cd apps/server
npx prisma migrate dev

Development

Mikoto uses a turborepo-based monorepo.

Use Docker Compose to run the necessary services.

To develop all apps and packages, run the following command:

yarn start

To browse/edit the Database run the following command:

Check Dockerfiles and Github Actions for more details, until more documentation is added.

cd apps/server
prisma studio

Build

To build all apps and packages, run the following command:

yarn build

Project Structure

Package	Description	Stack
apps/server	Core server for Mikoto	NodeJS + TypeScript + HyperSchema + Prisma
apps/content-proxy	S3 Proxy	NodeJS + TypeScript
apps/client	The web client for Mikoto	React + MobX
apps/mobile	Mobile client for Mikoto	React Native + MobX
apps/desktop	Desktop client for Mikoto	Electron
packages/mikotojs	Mikoto API for JS	TypeScript
packages/permcheck	Permisson Calculator	TypeScript

License

While we're still an early-stage project and the licensing may change in the future, Mikoto is currently dual licensed under AGPL core and a proprietary license. Please email cactus (at) mikoto.io if you are interested in enterprise uses for Mikoto.