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by jkarneges 1622 days ago
A bunch of things we (Fanout) have seen as a WebSocket provider, other than games: shared document editing, field worker management, live voting, parking space tracking, feature flags, sports updates, home security, ridesharing, financial tickers, notifications, news feeds, exercise classes, realtime audio analysis, and remote controls.
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These are great examples. I'd add delivery tracking/any geolocation tracking works great with websockets. And of course chat messaging.