tide
A Jitsi alternative that does a few things really well
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Details
- External ID
- 1272541
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Stride
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 76
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9782608695652174
- Tags
- Open Source, Meetings, GitHub, Video
- Fetched at
- Oct. 8, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 8, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
tide is a simple, self‑hostable video conference service, alternative to Jitsi. It let's you host your own "meet.custom.domain" for a simple video conferencing environment with all core features you expect, including: link sharing, screen sharing, recording (server-side). A few things, done well.
Enrichment
- Niche
- diy media streaming and hardware tinkering
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- video conferencing tool for teams
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While wrapping WebRTC or existing open-source SFUs like LiveKit or Mediasoup is possible, building a reliable self-hostable conferencing system with server-side recording requires substantial low-level media server infrastructure.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires a WebRTC Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU) written in Go or C++ (e.g., LiveKit, Pion), a signaling server, and an headless browser or FFmpeg pipeline for server-side composite recording. The primary challenge is managing NAT traversal (STUN/TURN), dynamic bitrate adaptation, packet loss recovery, and recording encoding without resource exhaustion. A telecom or real-time media engineer is needed to manage network jitter and pipeline scalability.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 15 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 16 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 28 days after the earliest competitor.
- tide · github · 2026-10-06 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.79
- Rumo · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- ShipConex · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- ott services · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.33
- Video hosting for websites · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.32
- QMeet · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.32
- wan-3-0-api · github · 2026-10-04 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.32
- DynoCX · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.32