By
@Kubik
A decentralized, peer-to-peer, end-to-end encrypted messaging app that puts you in control. No servers. No tracking. Just your private conversations. MY README IS NOT AI! ššš
I built Kursal! A peer-to-peer, decentralized (means no central server!) and end-to-end encrypted messenger.
Itās all coded in Rust for the backend and Svelte for the interface. Thereās also a website for it showing a bit everything, itās cool 
Basically when you open your client, it connects to other clients and creates a āmeshā of clients, communicating through each other. I think a good comparison is a mix of Bitcoin and Tor?
Anyway it took me super long to code, and I hope you enjoy!
Hi! Iām done! (i hope lol)
iām still in the process of publishing to the app store and play storeā¦ but heh it takes so long iāll ship before iām approved there lol
for real last devlog lol, mostly āciā changes, nothing much
I spent a LOT of time on the Google and Apple publishing websitesā¦.. it takes time to get an app publishedā¦. :/
okay i think thatās the last devlog before I ship! sorry for that long time devlog but i was in holidays lol
AND!! iām almost done with the camera rewrite! iām in the process of migrating that to the rust backend but this means native āper-deviceā code. Almost done!
here are the onboarding screens one by one, i cant add more than 4 attachments so youāll have to try urself to see ;)
hi! another devlog! i just turned 18
spent lot of time trying to migrate camera to backend but thatās still in the worksā¦ soonā¢
wow time actually flies! gotta devlog again XD
i made cool assets for the app store release
for those interested i used a figma template for the phones 3d + a plugin (that was so much pain but it looks great lol)
more changess!!! and lots of fixes lol
oh also i have setup https://status.kursal.chat (but not tracked that time)
okay I got some more work in! Iām getting really close to shipping, iād like to get a demo and a proper app icon first tho
Lots of work! but no release yet, iām almost done for beta.6!! :D
a major thing i worked on is Github actions release. Now, when I create the draft release, GH actions will build for every platform in parallel and release!
Released beta.4 and beta.5 with lots of improvements and fixes!
I spent uhā¦ some time on trying to make a ring tone (like an hour maybe?) but i cant upload it here :/ but whatever itās not that good anyway lol
and thatās basically it I guess!
Released beta.3 and currently reworking long-term codes for beta.4! not done yet, but itās WIP :)
Released a beta.2 fixing lots of things and almost done with a beta.3 I thinkā¦ :D
first, i spent like 4 hours translating everything into french LOL
thatās it for this devlog! weāll see if I ship now or wait a bit more? i really want something to work super well :p
Okayy! i started publishing clean commits now and working with my github structure.
Basically: I code on branches, like feature/some-feature. once itās done, I squash it to dev.
And when I want to release, I just make a branch release/0.1.0 (with the actual version) and change few things there!
DOCKER WORKING! you can now host your relays using it
Kursal JS is out too, you can now use the app API!
Large messages send as file (10k+)
In-app log view
File caption (sends as msg)
fixes:
Iām currently working on adding the native āshare withā for Kursal to share images and files directly from your OS.
hi! probably last few devlogs before a release?!
offline messages work now!! and calls too
nothing much changed, again
but more importantly (the only visual changes lol)
--tui
again, nothing much to seeā¦ but lots of internal changes!
iām preparing everything for a soon-ish release! itāll be a public beta version and yeah! hope it works
oops forgot to devlog againā¦ and no new features this time
as i saidā¦. well nothing
honestly I cannot tell. I think iām gonna start to plan the release and finally push to the public repo. gotta get everything ready, more bug fixes and proofread the code I guess!
PS: sorry i really got no screenshots to show here so uhā¦ hereās the intro animation when you first open the app!
I tried getting a feature outā¦. but nope, only fixed bugs 
i had to figure out how to compile audio libs to other platformsā¦ that took me a whileā¦ā¦.. thanks opus
hi! Started testing Kursal and foundā¦. bugs! so i spent quite some time fixing themā¦
my goal is to release the app in beta before august and get the first stable version out mid-augustā¦ weāll see!
yooo 3rd devlog :) sorry iām not posting very often, iād like to devlog feature by feature but they really take timeā¦
calls is the feature iāve been working on for a while. I re-used the encryption mechanism of file transfers: make a temporary secret key and then use it. I got SOUND going!!
(my friends were still offline)
Hello
Got a lot of improvements working! Mainly on the front-end but quite a lot on the backend too actually!
Added a CMD+K / CTRL+K search menu (see screenshot): you can search for settings, contacts or even messages!
Made the background of the DMG installation on mac
Searching messages!!
and a few skeletons for when stuff is loading
backend fixesā¦ lots of emā¦ like fixed adding a contact
still test offline messaging, still didnāt do that somehow
Hii! First Kursal devlog! This is a project iāve started during Flavortown but I wasnāt done yet! Sorry kinda didnāt see the time pass lol
Iām about to test offline messaging, the whole app too actually lolā¦ā¦ hope it all works š
