SocketChat
SocketChat is a tool that allows you to chat with other devices on your LAN. Furthermore, it is supported with an auto-discovery system that discovers other devices running SocketChat in your LAN.
This is 1 of 279 launches in chat and messaging platforms — see how it stacks up on momentum and crowding →
92 other launches read as similar to this one →
Details
- External ID
- 1395150635
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- SocketChat
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2180896543300354
- Tags
- chat, encryption, lan, network, python, tui
- Fetched at
- Oct. 2, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 2, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- chat and messaging platforms
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- local area network chat tool with device auto-discovery
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Local area network chat tools with UDP broadcast or mDNS discovery and TCP/WebSocket messaging are straightforward standard socket programming tasks easily built with an AI assistant.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 92 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #85 of 93 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 324 days after the earliest competitor.
- LAN-Chat · github · 2026-09-30 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Pinghug · ph · 2026-09-17 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- MailOnChat · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- BT VoiceChat · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Chat with people who share the same Internet connection (= IP address) · hn · 2026-01-01 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Classy Chat · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- PlayHub (Site for chat and for play) · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- The Social Hub · ph · 2026-09-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.