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Work · June 27, 2025

TrashTalk.me

Every message you send, every file you share — it all lives somewhere. In your chat history, on a server in a data center, in a backup you forgot about. We’ve become accustomed to our digital lives being recorded by default. I wanted to challenge that. I wanted a way to have a quick, private conversation online with the same finality as a whispered secret. A digital equivalent of a note that you burn after reading. This led me to create TrashTalk.me, a free web app built on a simple, powerful idea: your conversation should never have happened. What is TrashTalk.me? TrashTalk.me is a…

TrashTalk.me launched on June 27, 2025 with 11 votes, #2,422 of 7,999 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

What it does

I built a simple, anonymous, and secure web chat. You click one button, get a private link, share it with one person, and the entire chat is permanently destroyed the moment one of you leaves. No sign-ups, no logs, no history. P2P, file transfer included.

In the maker’s words, at launch

Every message you send, every file you share — it all lives somewhere. In your chat history, on a server in a data center, in a backup you forgot about. We’ve become accustomed to our digital lives being recorded by default. I wanted to challenge that. I wanted a way to have a quick, private conversation online with…

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