Relay
I built a modern web-based IRC/Discord replacement
Details
- External ID
- 47048302
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Relay
- Website domain
- moltic.dev
- Launched
- Feb. 17, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 11
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5707547169811321
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- alternative social platforms and feed readers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- web-based chat platform
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A web-based modern IRC/Discord chat client can easily be built with standard WebSocket libraries, Supabase/Firebase, or a simple backend framework.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Lack of information on landing page about features, Unclear if open source
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 830 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #355 of 831 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 109 days after the earliest competitor.
- calab · github · 2026-09-26 · 15 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Serein · github · 2026-09-09 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- kodyhook · github · 2026-09-21 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Antler · hn · 2025-11-25 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Rdio · hn · 2026-08-14 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- discord-crasher · github · 2026-09-16 · 21 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- WebGPT · github · 2026-09-12 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Textcaster · hn · 2026-07-19 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.52
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.