Spokes
Self-Hosted Discord Alternative for Friends & Family
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Spokes is a complete self-hosted text, voice, and video chat platform for your family, friend group, or small team. A simple, private alternative to Discord and Slack with organized channels, low-latency voice/video rooms with noise cancellation, shared photo albums, a group calendar, and free native iOS & Android apps with encrypted push notifications. Everything runs on your hardware inside a single Docker container with no external database required.
PH · launched Nov 1, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: video chat and messaging apps · 100 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -47% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Android
- Productivity
- Messaging
- Privacy
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Could you build this?
Partial The chat, channels, albums, and calendar are vibe-codeable, but low-latency voice and video with noise cancellation require real-time media infrastructure that a solo builder must assemble from existing SFU and audio libraries.
What it would actually take: Use an existing WebRTC SFU such as LiveKit or mediasoup for voice and video rooms, with RNNoise or a similar library for noise suppression. The rest is a standard web and mobile chat app with a database, auth, and push notifications. The hard part is tuning media quality, NAT traversal via TURN, and reliable self-hosted deployment, which needs some networking experience.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 389 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #152 of 390 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 361 days after the earliest competitor.
- We built ChatterBooth, an anonymous app to talk and chat freely · hn · 2025-11-19 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- OneWay · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- TalkLive · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Vibe Talk · ph · 2026-10-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Talk Together : Secure Chat · ph · 2026-11-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- SotiTalk: Voice to Text · ph · 2026-10-09 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Porch · ph · 2026-10-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Randomtalks · ph · 2026-10-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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