Product Roadmap
Deskdrop is built on a simple thesis: make the product highly dependable first, then expansive. Here is a transparent look at what is fully verified, what is currently in active development, and our plans for future expansion.
Execution Phases
Our phased approach to building a reliable, zero-cloud continuity mesh.
Reliability Foundation
Stabilizing core pipelines, removing contract drift, and ensuring users can diagnose and recover from network state anomalies effortlessly.
- Windows IPC Core: Aligning backend commands and fixing the trust approval flows with device-scoped IDs.
- System Health: End-to-end `SystemHealthState` telemetry across macOS, Android, and Windows.
- Transfer Correctness: Re-engineering progress math, ACK block sizing, and adaptive latency checks.
- Client Parity: macOS clipboard-image IPC fix, Android destination path and file-open handling.
Core Workflow Parity
Ensuring the central Deskdrop promise is equally robust, premium, and feature-complete on every single supported platform shell.
- Path-based Transfers: Moving large payload sends to direct local path/URI pipelines on all client apps.
- Unified Trust: Standardizing explicit secure PIN/SAS pairings across all OS targets.
- Diagnostics Parity: Shipping repair-first active diagnostics overlays to the Windows platform.
- History Management: Parity for timeline items pin, delete, and peer-specific send targeting.
Product Maturity
Transforming Deskdrop from a smart technical tool into a fully polished, zero-friction local-first network appliance.
- Dashboard Diagnostics: Direct repair triggers and device-health stats integrated on home dashboards.
- Rich Transfer History: Full historical transfers query with text content metadata and search filters.
- Connection Timeline: Connection logs, Wi-Fi channel handoff maps, and explicit failure reasons.
- Per-Device Rules: Setting custom auto-apply behavior, pause triggers, and preferred storage folders.
Expansion & Differentiation
Introducing delightful features that establish Deskdrop as a uniquely powerful, privacy-first local clipboard engine.
- Drag-to-Device: Polished UI targeting to drag and drop files onto specific visual representations of nearby devices.
- Templates & Snippets: Pinning and storing frequently used text blocks, snippets, or code blocks in the feed.
- Pasteboard Collections: Create ad-hoc shared clipboards for multiple devices on the network.
- Smart Routing: Context-aware file destination matching (e.g. sending photos to your photo catalog app).
Feature Area Breakdown
Detailed breakdown of planned engineering deliverables by component.
Connectivity
Ensuring durable links under real-world conditions like Wi-Fi channel shifts and sleeping daemons.
Trust & Security
Cryptographic trust scoped explicitly to device hardware keys instead of network addresses.
Clipboard Experience
Sandboxed, non-invasive copy/paste sync that puts control of the operating system pasteboard in your hands.
File Transfer
Production-grade P2P streaming utilizing robust local chunk encryption pipelines.
Diagnostics
Active troubleshooting overlays that offer guided, clickable fixes instead of passive status reports.
Platform Parity
Bringing Windows and Linux CLI targets to absolute parity with the reference macOS and Android builds.
Production-Grade Foundations
Deskdrop's underlying architectural core is fully operational and has passed strict safety/leak audits.
mDNS Zero-Cloud Discovery
Multicast DNS finds nearby peers locally and instantly without remote cloud accounts.
ChaCha20 E2EE Tunneling
Full end-to-end data encryption for all text copies and streamed files.
Resumable File Chunking
Chunks are capped at 256KB to allow perfect resumes without memory allocation exhaustion.
Activity Feed Sandboxing
Incoming sync items are isolated to a sandboxed feed. You decide when to apply to pasteboard.
macOS App Nap Prevention
Natively registers with App Nap APIs to prevent background sync disconnects on Apple Silicon.
Android Background JNI
Native C bindings communicating via highly optimized JNI callbacks on Android.
Want to inspect the codebase or report an issue?
Deskdrop is fully open source. All development happens transparently in our primary monorepo.