Live cursors
A shared canvas where every visitor's pointer shows up with a name and a colour.
A realtime WebSocket API for every screen in your business.
Pikoman is a hosted WebSocket API. Your systems publish with one HTTP request, and every dashboard, tablet and browser that should know is told within milliseconds. No polling, no servers of your own to keep running.
Every depot sees a shipment move the moment it does.
The background traffic is simulated. This sends one real message through the API to everyone on this page.
Gates, loading bays and cameras tell the control room what is happening on site.
North gate, Plant 2 Trucks today 14
Machines report to the control room as it happens, and alarms reach the floor at once.
Line 4 Produced today 1,284
- Press 182 bar Running
- Weld 388 °C Running
- Paint 62 % RH Running
- Assembly 44 /min Running
- Inspection 99 % pass Running
The whole floor on one screen: machines, belts and forklifts report as they move.
Plant 2, floor view Shipped today 1,284
The whole team sees who is online and who has picked up what.
Queue
Agents
On the wire
What people build with it
Every feature is a small JSON message on a WebSocket. Its op says what kind of message it is, and
each kind has its own colour across the site.
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Collaboration
Shared pointers, selections and edits. Browsers send to each other through a presence channel, no backend round trip.
client_event"channel":"presence-cursors","from":"c_9f2a…","event":"move","data":{"x":0.31,"y":0.62} -
Chat and presence
Know who is in the room, with the profile data your server signed for them, and get told when they leave.
member_joined"channel":"presence-chat","count":3,"id":"c_9f2a…","data":{"name":"Mint Otter"} member_left"channel":"presence-chat","count":2,"id":"c_41d7…" -
Notifications
Tell a user their export finished or their order shipped. One POST from any language that can speak HTTP.
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Live results and dashboards
Keep the truth on your server and push each new state. Late joiners fetch once, then follow the stream.
event"channel":"poll","event":"results","data":{"total":128,"options":[…]}
Already in production
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renskrivet.se
Swedish speech-to-text for interviews and meetings. Pikoman delivers its live updates.
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scrumbia.com
Story point estimation for scrum teams. Pikoman keeps everyone in a room in sync.
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gr8.st
An invite-only social network. Pikoman carries what happens inside, live.
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Your product could be next. Tell us what you are building and we will help you get it live.
Three steps from install to first message
The JavaScript client is one small package. Publishing needs no SDK at all.
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Connect
Run
npm install @pikoman/ws@nextand open a connection with your app id from the dashboard.app.ts import Pikoman from "@pikoman/ws"; const pikoman = new Pikoman("your-app-id"); -
Listen
Subscribe to a channel and handle the events you care about. Payloads arrive parsed.
app.ts const orders = pikoman.listen("orders"); orders.on("shipped", (order) => { showToast(`Order ${order.id} is on its way`); }); -
Publish
POST to
/{channel}/{event}from your backend, with the app's API key. Everyone listening gets it.terminal curl -X POST https://next-api.pikoman.se/orders/shipped \ -u your-app-id:your-api-key \ -d '{"id": 1042}'
Four demos, all running on this site's own app key
Each one shows its socket traffic while you use it, so you can see exactly what your app would send and receive.
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Chat
A private room with a member list, typing indicators and a greeting pushed from the server.
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Notifications
Write a notification, send it through the HTTP API and watch it land. The page shows the matching curl command.
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Live poll
Vote and watch the totals move for everyone. The server owns the count and broadcasts each change.
Bring your own app
Sign in with GitHub, create an app and get its keys right away, then follow the quickstart. The example repository is a working SolidJS starter.