Tide, simple self-hosted video meetings. URL is a demo anon deployment
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Details
- External ID
- 50003705
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Tide, simple self-hosted video meetings. URL is a demo anon deployment
- Website domain
- convex.works
- Launched
- Oct. 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.10
- Tags
- —
Enrichment
- Niche
- video conferencing platforms
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- self-hosted video meetings
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Tide is a simple self-hosted video meeting application, which can readily be vibe-coded using SvelteKit, WebRTC (via LiveKit, PeerJS, or simple signaling over WebSockets), and containerized for easy self-hosting.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: LiveKit, Jitsi, Google Meet, Zoom
Concerns raised: Just a LiveKit wrapper, RAM usage requirements
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 262 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #249 of 263 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 338 days after the earliest competitor.
- tide · github · 2026-10-06 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- MeetCast · github · 2026-09-24 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- tide · ph · 2026-10-08 · 80 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Ghostmeet · hn · 2026-07-08 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Relay · hn · 2026-02-17 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Rumo · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Freenet Lives · hn · 2026-02-08 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- calab · github · 2026-09-26 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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