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Schedule link: 🛤 Building Apps on IPFS Track
Different Business Models
Rather than “Free” apps that take your data, can you get paid to use your data?
Do business models change with portable data apps / IPFS apps?
Is IPFS “ready” for apps?
Biggest pain points, what should we work on / prioritize together?
Hosting / Publishing of Front End Web Apps
e.g. Pinata, Fleek, Fission all support this, with some level of DNS mapping / persistence.
Competes with Vercel / Github Pages / etc
How should we think about this hosting use case / business model?
IPFS Desktop
Russell @SgtPooki did a quick demo of IPFS Desktop,
Please look at these two issues and give feedback
opened 06:23PM - 25 Apr 22 UTC
exp/intermediate
kind/discussion
P2
status/ready
topic/design-ux
kind/enhancement
kind/architecture
need/analysis
need/maintainers-input
need/community-input
effort/weeks
area/screen/diagnostics
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
Creating a d… iagnostic view in the webui and desktop app
**Describe the solution you'd like**
Additional metrics desired can be found in https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-webui/issues/1220, but this issue covers the diagnostics view we wish to have in the webui and ipfs-desktop.
This view would *not* be focused on metrics, instead, view #1220 for that. This view would be focused on process/tooling on **top** of those metrics and/or other data.
**Describe alternatives you've considered**
* https://pl-diagnose.on.fleek.co/
* https://ipfs-check.on.fleek.co/
**Additional context**
Ideas for supported functionality:
- [ ] network connection view to support users determining why or whether they're experiencing network connectivity issues.
* see https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-desktop/search?q=context+deadline+exceeded&type=issues
- [ ] We could use IPFS Desktop to get some diagnostic data about the gateways with user's permission. That would allow us to get some info on why are is the gateway so slow at some times and really fast on others. (https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-desktop/issues/1140)
- [ ] command line interface to ipfs inside ipfs-desktop - ipfs/ipfs-webui#1931
- [ ] Health Check - See https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-desktop/issues/2181
- [ ] check if there are public providers for a CID
- [ ] Are those providers dialable from my node
- [ ] Trace route for DHT
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## Looking for community and IPFS Implementers' feedback on this issue.
Here are some questions to help get the ideas flowing.
### What kind of diagnostics should we focus on
* How do you currently diagnose issues with your IPFS node/CID/etc?
* Could this process be improved with a targeted solution in IPFS desktop and the webui?
* What is the most difficult part of this process?
* What problems have you run into that you have been unable to solve yourself, and how could a diagnostics view help to prevent a similar situation in the future?
### What/Why/How
* Do we need a separate diagnostics & metrics view? Would a single diagnostics view that allows us to view the metrics we need be sufficient?
* What problems do you currently have that a specific diagnostics view in the webui and IPFS desktop could help you solve?
* Do you agree/disagree with the `Ideas for supported functionality` list above?
* Would you use the diagnostics view instead of your current tool of choice if the metrics were available in the IPFS desktop and webui?
opened 07:45AM - 02 Oct 19 UTC
status/deferred
exp/intermediate
kind/discussion
P3
topic/design-front-end
topic/design-ux
kind/enhancement
need/analysis
need/maintainers-input
need/community-input
effort/days
area/screen/metrics
We want to display a metrics view/page in the IPFS desktop app and webui. Ideall… y, this view would allow users to view any/all metrics they need, without having to access the CLI or other tools. This view would *not* have tools or complicated features that would allow users to process those metrics. Instead, they would want to use the [Diagnostics View](https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-webui/issues/1925).
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### Original issue description
> @olizilla suggested we could add a metrics tab somewhere in the Web UI where we could show the data from `${apiAddr}/debug/metrics/prometheus` graphically. That would certainly be an interesting idea and useful for some kinds of users.
>
> **Leaving this as a WIP Issue**
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## Looking for community and IPFS Implementers' feedback on this issue.
Here are some questions to help get the ideas flowing.
### Which metrics should we focus on?
* What metrics do you currently use/view/monitor and how do you obtain them?
* Would it benefit you to see those metrics graphed in the Webui/desktop app?
* Which of those metrics are difficult to get access to or discover?
* i.e. Metrics that require comprehensive calculations, metrics that you seem to always forget how to obtain, metrics that require a complicated process to obtain, etc.
* What metrics do you desire but are not currently obtainable? Why do you need them (usecase)?
* Local node uptime/downtime - To monitor stability of my node because I need my home ipfs node to always be avail
* Local node activity (global reqs, responses, latency, etc..) - To monitor how much my node is used (just curious)?
* Total peers connected over time - To monitor the health of my ipfs network
* count and frequency of requests that timeout - To denylist/allowlist certain good/bad peers?
* etc..
### What/Why/How
* What problems do you currently have that a specific metrics view in the webui and IPFS desktop could help you solve?
* Do you need customizable metrics views beyond selecting a time window?
* What kind of charts & graphs would benefit you most?
* Would you use the metrics view instead of your current tool of choice if the metrics were available in the IPFS desktop and webui?
More discussion on schelling point of working on ideas around IPFS desktop and different personas – e.g. developers!
Should we push more users running IPFS desktop / web3 style “run your own nodes”?
Feedback to @SgtPooki on UI
Native Mobile Working Group
Chris / Subconscious
David / Durin ‎Durin on the App Store
Kosmos - Boris to Point them here
Bertie
@bFive
List apps
Can we help list apps?
Zero Data Apps example Zero Data App
Also: Awesome Lists Rebooting the IPFS Awesome List
And ecosystem, also discussed, which is more stacks and infra and companies.
Cookbook
Create a space (likely docs.ipfs.io ) for some cookbooks of components and recipes and so on that developers can use.