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Products that do what QuickChat - An Open-Source Snapchat clone built in 5 days does
Hi HN, My name is Taylor and I built QuickChat - an app similar to Snapchat - in 5 days to challenge myself. I shared the entire process publicly on my blog, taylorbeck.me, and I have received amazing support and feedback from everyone following along. The source code is available here: https://github.com/tagabek/QuickChat I am also a full-time iOS consultant, and am actively looking for work. Feel free to connect with me via email. Email: [email protected] iTunes Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/quickchat!/id778296290?ls=1&mt=8 1st…
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I created a pet project to see if it is of use and interesting to people. The idea is on-demand real-time chat rooms for trending topics and for personal use. You can go to the main page at www.urshoutbox.com to create your own room then share it across your social networks/email, etc. I created a hacker news specific "shoutbox" at http://www.urshoutbox.com/bLmYAL/hacker-news . If nobody is in there, please be patient and (I hope) people will join soon to start talking. The idea is to have trending topics on facebook/twitter/etc and have chat rooms to get…
2014 · urshoutbox.com
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This is something fun I’ve been hacking on recently: ridiculously simple group chat. Go to http://faces.io and then get your friends to do the same. That’s it! :-D Currently works best in Chrome. It’s definitely beta status at best. Audio can get weird—be ready to mute. ;-) Let me know what you think!
2014
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I was tired of paying monthly subscriptions for all my AI tools and I wanted to pay just for what I use so I combined the AI chats I use to create my own chat - MyChat (pun intended) MyChat is an all-in-one chat bot that has a pay-as-you-go business model. The tech stack I used was NextJS, TypeScript, MongoDB, Clerk, TailwindCSS, ShadCN, Stripe, the OpenAI API hosted on Hostinger with Coolify. The code base is currently around 3500 lines of code. (About 500 of them are redundant code) The web app itself is not complicated the only complex thing in it is the math that's mapping the different…
2025 · mychat.click
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Hey HN, I made FridayGPT to instantly access ChatGPT back in August 2023 for my own needs using SwiftUI. I shared it with a few of my friends, and they were using it every day. Recently, I added a one-click grammar fix and an OpenAI-powered Voice-to-Text feature. I also released it to the public as a one-time paid app. Please check out: https://www.fridaygpt.app
2024 · fridaygpt.app
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So I just did my semi-annual "log in to Twitter to see if it's any good yet", and found that in my absence I had followed a few thousand new spam accounts. Sweet. That explains why they emailed me and forced me to change my password last year. Being Awesome, Twitter doesn't have any way to simply toss out all your followers and start from scratch. And none of the spammy apps claiming to do so actually will (even seemingly after charging you money to try). So instead, I just pulled open the Dev console and did this:…
2014
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http://instachat.im Instachat is my side-project and is just a bit of fun: I am a .NET programmer and decided to learn SignalR so a chat program was the best way. This is version 2: v1 was done in February and I left it for a while but it was frankly awful with too much interface. I decided to strip it down to the basics and since I spend lots of time in the command line myself (I am a Windows Infrastructure consultant by day - What can I say? I like the command line!) I thought it might be cool to have a whole site like this. I kept it simple and secure: I don't store the contents…
2014
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Hello everyone! I have a hobby project that has become fairly full featured that I figured I would share. The idea of MinimalChat has been to create a project that is a lightweight and dead simple application that can be deployed locally in a few seconds (with docker). While of course also having most of the nice to have features and looking pretty nice. A nice bonus is it a Progressive Web Application so it can be installed like a normal application to your mobile device. It has a full mobile UI. For those using Chrome and Edge you can also locally download, load and host entirely via your…
2024 · github.com
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http://dripi.com I thought I'd share my winning entry to the Google I/O last call competition with ya'll. Took me about 9 hours, which seems like a lot looking at it now (my only excuse is that it took place after 12am). I truly did not expect to be one of the winners. My guess is that the YouTube API category had fewer entries than others. Feel free to let me know what you think! This was the challenge: Wouldn’t it be nice if you could create a video mash-up by chaining player invocations that work for both Flash and HTML5 videos ? Well, with the JavaScript API to the <iframe> embed…
2011
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This weekend I finally shipped Gryt, a project I’ve been building since 2022 — an open-source, self-hostable Discord-style app focused on reliable voice chat + text. I’m the creator. I started it after getting fed up with Discord disconnects/paywalls and wanted something self-hosted and auditable. I started on this in 2022 and had an early proof-of-concept working back then (auth + friends list), but I quickly realized WebRTC voice isn’t something you can duct-tape together. I spent a big chunk of the next couple years learning the stack (ICE/DTLS-SRTP, NAT traversal, SFU design),…
Feb 2026 · gryt.chat
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2015 · shtaff.com
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2013 · fileti.me
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Hey HN. I've made a tool that parses RSS feeds and creates ready-to-post Tweets with ChatGPT.
2024 · rsstotweet.xyz
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