Alternatives

Products that do what initial launch does

first public build

1. 1
   Hangouts Chat by Google (Early Access)▲448

   Bring your team together

   2017

2. 2
   Bants!▲77

   Location based group chat in the browser

   2021

3. 3
   Instant Map Chat▲198

   Chat with people in real-time on a Google Map

   2016

4. 4
   HereHere▲68

   Location based chat app for Android

   2019

5. 5WM
   We made a proximity-based video chat for events▲11

   2021 · unnamed.chat

6. 6
   Group Chats in ChatGPT▲470

   Collaborate with others & ChatGPT in the same conversation

   Nov 2025 · openai.com

7. 7
   Telegram 4.4▲278

   Broadcast your current location to any chat in real time

   2017

8. 8
   Hello for iOS▲125

   Instantly start chatting with people in your local area

   2015

9. 9
   Nearby Chat▲3

   Free anonymous city chat — meet people nearby, no signup

   Jun 2026 · nearby-chat.com

10. 10
    Public▲205

    Group chats. Great conversations. 💬

    2016

11. 11
    Bubi Chat▲113

    Location based anonymous chatting app

    2019

12. 12
    Tick Chat▲92

    Chat via nearby persons. Instant, Secure, Anonymously. 🕶

    2017

13. 13
    Path Talk Places▲159

    Message People and Places in One App

    2014

14. 14GC
    Gis.chat – a Geospatial Community▲86

    Hi folks! I'm excited to show you gis.chat, a geospatial chat platform in both senses: a platform about geospatial topics and a geospatial platform itself, referencing the location of our communities. The setup is fairly simple and reproducible: a plain Zulip instance and a homepage with geospatial search capabilities. It seems almost trivial but it has some very nice features. I guess you should be familiar with Zulips stream/topic model to follow along (https://zulip.com/help/streams-and-topics). The core idea is that there are city-specific streams (currently…

    2023 · gis.chat

15. 15
    Space▲122

    Interactive audio conversations with others

    2020

16. 16
    Locale Chat▲11

    Locale Chat is a locale-based and time-limited chat platform

    2025

17. 17MA
    MapChat – A simple location based chat in 300 lines of code▲205

    2015 · idoco.github.io

18. 18
    Chatway▲161

    Your website's new live chat

    2024

19. 19
    Bunch▲204

    Group video chat for live mobile games

    2018

20. 20IB
    I built a fun video meeting app with 2D physics and proximity chat▲166

    Hi HN! https://flat.social is a web video meeting app for organising fun online meetings & social events. Each participant can move around and talk with others in their proximity. Here is a quick demo if you wanna see it in action: https://youtu.be/Y2yH3twjrx4 I’ve been on it solo for around a year right now. Tech used is Next.js, Typescript, PIXI.js on the front-end and Node, Mediasoup, Socket.io and Matter.js (physics engine) on the backend. Feel free to jump in into the demo room (https://flat.social/f/Flat.Social-Demo) to say hi, I’ll be…

    2022 · flat.social

21. 21
    Village▲73

    See discussions, questions and conversations around you

    2020

22. 22
    Near by Chat

    Anonymous location-based chat - Meet people nearby without

    Jan 2026 · nearby-chat.com

23. 23
    SpatialChat▲87

    Immersive virtual events with proximity audio and video

    Jun 2026 · spatial.chat

24. 24
    6People▲78

    App to meet 5 new people every day, now on Android and iOS

    2022

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