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Lodge

Video calls for your friend group, with games and tomatoes

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Lodge is a free, private video hangout for 2–6 friends. It runs in the browser on iPhone and Android, guests join from a link with just a name, and calls have no time limit. Knock to come in, play games on the call, throw a tomato at someone’s video.

PH · launched Nov 4, 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
  • Commercial product
  • Messaging
  • Social Networking
  • Video

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Could you build this?

Yes It is a browser-based video call app for small groups with no-login guest joins and a few fun in-call features. Hosted WebRTC SDKs like LiveKit or Daily handle the media infrastructure, so the app layer is standard.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 241 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #107 of 242 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 307 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Porch · ph · 2026-10-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • PlayHub (Site for chat and for play) · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • Covo · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • CoopSeat · ph · 2026-10-21 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • Joynite · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
  • Tierguess · ph · 2026-11-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
  • Lodge Deck · ph · 2026-10-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
  • Porch · ph · 2026-10-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41

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