Haven Private Circles
Encrypted photos, stories and calls for your closest people
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Details
- External ID
- 1258553
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Haven Private Circles
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7747427731504165
- Tags
- Android, Open Source, Social Network, Privacy, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Oct. 2, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 2, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
Haven is a free, private social app for family and close friends. Photos, videos, stories with a song, messages and group calls, shared inside small invite-only circles. Everything is end-to-end encrypted (hybrid post-quantum) and travels peer-to-peer, even over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi with no internet. No account, phone number or email. No ads, no tracking, no algorithm. Media rides on a relay you or a friend run, or your own S3 bucket. Open source (AGPL).
Enrichment
- Theme
- privacy-focused messaging and communication tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- encrypted photo and call sharing app for close networks
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Building peer-to-peer, offline mesh networking over Bluetooth and local Wi-Fi combined with hybrid post-quantum end-to-end encryption and decentralized real-time group calls requires deep, specialized cryptography and network systems engineering.
What it would actually take: Requires developing or integrating a custom hybrid PQC cryptosystem (e.g., Kyber/ML-KEM combined with X25519) within a Double Ratchet protocol, alongside a resilient ad-hoc peer-to-peer mesh routing protocol (BLE / Wi-Fi Direct / MultipeerConnectivity) that dynamically switches between offline gossip and internet relays. The hard part is multi-party group state synchronization, offline media delivery, and WebRTC P2P mesh audio/video without central infrastructure.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 223 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #36 of 224 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 300 days after the earliest competitor.
- Hello Haven · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- SECRET — private messenger · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- A social feed with no strangers · hn · 2026-04-12 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Same Page · ph · 2026-10-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Keepr Circle, Private Family Photo Share · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Trink · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Nullchat · ph · 2026-10-05 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- DuoVault · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.