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Wasn't WebRTC going to solve all this (e.g. https://appr.tc)? What happened, has it become browser cruft?


WebRTC handles the actual p2p audio and video, but has no method of signaling the other party for attention to actually join the "call", -- no concept of userid, so you'd always need to send a link to your WebRTC service via another channel - SMS, WhatsApp, Email, IRC, ... or some other "new" service, that's really just a wrapper to handle the userid / notification problem, and uses WebRTC underneath.


Notifications are possible with Service Workers.




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