Chat with people who share the same Internet connection (= IP address)
Details
- External ID
- 46449851
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Chat with people who share the same Internet connection (= IP address)
- Website domain
- ipchat.org
- Launched
- Jan. 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 17
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6324110671936759
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I built a simple, ephemeral chat service that connects you only with users who share the exact same public IP address as you.It's essentially a temporary, isolated chat room defined by your NAT gateway.It's not super useful nowadays, but let's see where this takes us. :)
Enrichment
- Theme
- niche social and community platforms
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- chat with people on your network
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A real-time chat app that scopes WebSocket rooms based on incoming client public IP addresses (NAT detection) is a weekend project easily built with Node.js/Socket.io or Go.
Discussion
17 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: gnokestation
Concerns raised: IPv6 complexity and edge cases (EUI-64, TEREDO, ORCHID2, 6to4, NAT64), Source code not published/on-premises capability, Privacy and tracking implications of GUA IPv6 addresses, Legal/regulatory concerns
Feature requests: File sharing capabilities, Private messaging, /64 IPv6 subnet support
Competitors
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Attention rank: #67 of 167 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 62 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.