Welcome to another Mantequilla-Soft Weekly Report!
This week, we are excited to announce the launch of a brand new app: Hive Hangouts (temporary name). Think of it like Twitter Spaces, but for the Hive blockchain. It lets people create and join live audio rooms using their Hive account, with no signups or passwords needed. We actually used it this week to record our Mantequilla-Soft weekly hangout, and it worked great. This was mostly built by @meno, and we will keep improving it in the coming weeks.
On other fronts, @eddiespino made progress on the ManteCurated Live curation dashboard, and we now have the 3Speak embed upload system available for Ecency to use. More details below.
Summary of updates by contributors:
@meno
Hive Hangouts (New App)
@meno built and launched Hive Hangouts, a new open source app that brings Twitter Spaces-style audio rooms to the Hive blockchain. Anyone with a Hive account can host or join live audio conversations, authenticating via Hive Keychain with no new accounts or passwords required.
The architecture is clean and lightweight: a LiveKit SFU (self hosted, open source WebRTC server) handles real time audio routing and participant management, a Fastify API (~250 lines) acts as a thin auth gateway that verifies Hive signatures and issues LiveKit tokens, and a React SPA provides the UI with a Spaces style layout featuring a speaker stage and audience grid.
Features include room creation, hand raising for listeners who want to speak, speaker promotion and demotion by the host, moderation tools (mute, kick, end room), and Hive avatars pulled from on chain metadata. The server API exposes endpoints for challenge response auth, room listing and creation, joining rooms, and managing participant permissions.
We used Hangouts this week to record our own Mantequilla-Soft weekly meeting, and it worked well.
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/Mantequilla-Soft/hangouts
You can test this app on snapie.io. It should also work from the Hive Keychain internal browser. Remember that this is still an MVP, so many features are missing. Kindly share any feedback or ideas on the Snapie Discord server (link at the bottom of the post). And if you have a cool idea for the name of the app, please let us know in the comments. Hangouts is a temporary name.
@eddiespino
ManteCurated Live
@eddiespino made significant progress on ManteCurated Live, a real-time Hive blockchain curation dashboard built with Next.js 14, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS. The dashboard provides analytics for the @mantecurated account's curation activities.
Key features delivered this week include a voting power gauge with full weight vote value display and VP regeneration info, an account stats card focused on delegation tracking (own HP, total HP, incoming and outgoing delegations), a top authors chart showing the 10 most voted authors, and a recent votes feed with estimated USD values per vote, pagination (10 per page), clickable PeakD links, and local timezone display.
The dashboard also got a complete Mantequilla-Soft rebrand (gold/yellow color scheme replacing the old red), dynamic URL routing so anyone can view stats for any account via /@username, mobile optimization, lowercase username handling, number formatting with thousand separators, and a favicon. Vote value calculations were calibrated to match actual Hive values using CoinGecko pricing.
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/Mantequilla-Soft/mantecurated-live
Check the app here: https://mantecurated.3speak.tv/
3Speak Embed Upload System on Ecency
The 3Speak Embed Video Upload Service is now available for Ecency to use. This is the system that allows any Hive frontend to incorporate video uploads with TUS resumable uploads, instant embed URLs, IPFS storage, multi-encoder support, and real-time encoding progress tracking. The service supports two auth methods: direct API key for server-to-server integrations, and short-lived upload tokens for secure client-side uploads in web apps. Ecency can now offer its users the ability to upload videos that are encoded and served through the 3Speak infrastructure.
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/Mantequilla-Soft/embedvideos
YouTube Mirror:
https://youtu.be/i7W41pw9vnQ?si=tbpgVTvkHT8B-DhD
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