SecuChat
"Slack and Zoom - but nothing leaves your network."
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Actually secure - salted scrypt passwords, security headers, you control everything. local Ollama or MLX AI - translate, summarize, moderate, or get a chat assistant, No content forwarded to any external model. Reach your server from anywhere in the world - set up a Cloudflare Tunnel (free tier, no extra hardware) and you're logged into your SecuChat instance from a laptop in Vienna, a phone on a train in Osaka, or a tablet in the field.
PH · launched Sep 20, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: private and secure messaging apps · 144 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -41% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- B2B
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Messaging
- Customer Communication
- Chat rooms
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Could you build this?
Partial Building a self-hosted chat app with local Ollama is straightforward, but delivering a full Zoom alternative requires multi-party real-time media infrastructure that goes beyond simple vibe-coding.
What it would actually take: A viable self-hosted Slack/Zoom alternative requires containerized deployment (Docker/Compose) bundling a real-time messaging server, an authentication service, and a Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU) such as LiveKit, mediasoup, or Pion for low-latency WebRTC video/audio conferencing. Engineers must handle STUN/TURN server configuration, adaptive bitrate streaming, simulcast, and media renegotiation to ensure stable calls across diverse network topologies.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 180 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #153 of 181 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 326 days after the earliest competitor.
- Shellway · ph · 2026-10-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Ember · ph · 2026-11-10 · 103 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Latchat · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- EXZA-Remote · github · 2026-11-02 · 114 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Chatcode · hn · 2026-06-04 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- ai-sni-proxy · github · 2026-09-26 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Elaichi · ph · 2026-10-16 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Tlx · hn · 2026-09-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.38
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