Serein
Tiny, Performant & 100% Native client for Discord made in Rust
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GITHUB · launched Sep 9, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 88%) · 0 views
Niche: team and live chat software · 81 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▲ +14% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Building a 100% native client for Discord in Rust requires reverse-engineering or fully maintaining the undocumented Discord Gateway WebSocket protocol, voice WebRTC stack, and extensive protocol rate limiting/cryptography.
What it would actually take: Implementing this requires a Rust desktop stack (e.g., Slint, iced, or Tauri) implementing Discord's stateful WebSocket Gateway protocol, JSON/ETF message serialization, and an end-to-end WebRTC implementation handling audio encryption and Discord-specific voice server signaling. It requires significant protocol reverse engineering, real-time networking expertise, and ongoing evasion of Discord client verification and ban heuristics.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 2418 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #2099 of 2419 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 313 days after the earliest competitor.
- yapfast · github · 2026-10-16 · 88 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- larperCord · github · 2026-11-04 · 226 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- SpotLight · github · 2026-09-27 · 43 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- discord-server-raider-installer · github · 2026-11-04 · 138 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- discord-server-raider · github · 2026-11-04 · 139 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Octopii, a runtime for writing distributed applications in Rust · hn · 2025-12-09 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- discord-server-raider · github · 2026-11-02 · 33 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- discord-server-cloner · github · 2026-11-02 · 33 upvotes · similarity 0.62
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