Matrirc
run irssi in 2026, talk to people on Matrix
Details
- External ID
- 47914814
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Matrirc
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- April 26, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 12
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6446015424164524
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
This solves no real problem — Element works, there's already a Matrix-to-IRC bridge running on half the FOSS networks, and probably nobody under 30 has opened irssi voluntarily this decade.I wrote it anyway because I miss Esc 4 and clunky window-split commands.Matrirc is a local IRC server that speaks Matrix on the back. Point irssi at localhost:6667, log in with Matrix creds, rooms show up as channels.brew tap pawelb0/tap brew install matrirc
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive simulations and creative experiments
- Vertical
- —
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- matrix client for irssi users
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a local protocol bridge translating standard IRC commands to Matrix Client-Server API calls. Existing libraries for both protocols make this a straightforward wrapper tool that an AI assistant can assemble quickly.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: weechat, matrix
Concerns raised: irssi maintenance status unclear despite recent commits
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 5 launches clear the similarity bar.
Attention rank: #4 of 6 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 106 days after the earliest competitor.
- Porting xv6 to HiFive Unmatched board · hn · 2026-01-10 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Cascade Chat · hn · 2026-07-14 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Port Zero · hn · 2026-07-27 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.31
- Axiom · hn · 2026-02-18 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.31
- tltv · hn · 2026-05-08 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.30
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.