I understand the temptation to dream up some cool and unique use-cases (and they are cool) I’m just looking forward to slightly improve the user experience by going from LiveView to Hologram.

It’s the small things in life

One of my absolute favorite video games from childhood was Sensible Soccer. That game had insane playability - you could pick it up in seconds but spend hours mastering those perfect curved shots and through-balls. The simple top-down view, those charming pixelated graphics, the way players would slide tackle across the entire pitch, the satisfying thwack of the ball… pure gaming magic! The pixelated art style was part of what made it so special - it had character and charm that modern ultra-realistic graphics sometimes lack.

Now here’s a wild thought: wouldn’t it be absolutely incredible to recreate that experience as a web game? All those amazing features - the career mode where you could run your club campaign, make transfers, manage budgets, develop players through the seasons, plus of course the core gameplay that was so addictive. But now imagine adding seamless online multiplayer so you could actually play matches against other people around the world! And eventually, Hologram would be deployable to mobiles too.

Anyone else have childhood games they’d love to see reimagined?

I plan to make all my elixir apps with Hologram. I see it as the future of fullstack elixir. Instant, realtime, and local-first (one day). I imagine most of the apps I make will be utility in nature though I’m sure it’d be fun to make games with it too.

I’m currently working on an app for communities and professional groups. It’s a svelte frontend paired with Phoenix channels. I’m looking forward to reducing a lot of complexity when I can port it to Hologram.

Hmm, if Hologram creates JavaScript and clearly separates pure client and client-server functions-iterations, then could it used for serverless apps as well? Somebody mentioned possibility for progressive web apps after all.

One of my current hobby areas is Google Chrome extensions which are naturally just JavaScript, Google even explicitly forbids remotely injected JavaScript execution (thus no LiveView). If Hologram generates all the JS used during build time and it could somehow be separately packaged, then suddenly many elixir webapps could get possibility for getting a Chrome Extension easily.

One idea I thought of last night was on a site where we want to raise money for dog charities (which will include dog profiles) we could have a Hologram powered page which would allow people to create jigsaws from uploaded photos - and they can then do the jigsaw while on the site (maybe we could sell physical jigsaws as well or something). Seems like it could be a good fit for Hologram!