Kiyeovo 1.0 release- dual network-mode decentralized E2EE P2P messenger
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- Kiyeovo 1.0 release- dual network-mode decentralized E2EE P2P messenger
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 9, 2026
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- Upvotes
- 15
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6475507765830346
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Kiyeovo is a decentralized, end-to-end encrypted messenger. It requires no accounts, no email, no central servers. Peers find each other and talk directly over libp2p. kad-DHT stores messages for offline peers and handles finding other users by their username/peerID. After almost a year of solo development, this is the first release.More details are in the repository README, but in short, here are the features:- realtime end-to-end encrypted messages- Direct & group video and audio calls with screen sharing options- messages securely persisted when the other side is not online- group chats, group calls- fast mode is for normal day-to-day use: lower latency, relays, audio/video calling- anonymous mode is for Tor-routed messaging. Better anonymity, but slower and no call support- encrypted file transfers- trusted profile import/export- identity backup- no central account or message server -> use trusted bootstrap/relay servers or self-hostThis is a single developer effort. It has not had a formal security audit so please don't rely on it where your safety depends on it. Feedback and bug reports are very welcome.P.S. The repo contains addresses of infrastructure nodes that I published, so for a quick start and no friction, you're free to use those. Try it out!
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
- decentralized encrypted peer-to-peer messenger
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Building a serverless, peer-to-peer, end-to-end encrypted messaging system with offline message delivery requires deep distributed systems, cryptography, and network engineering expertise.
What it would actually take: The architecture relies on libp2p for peer routing, transport multiplexing, and NAT traversal (STUN/TURN/AutoNAT), combined with a Kademlia Distributed Hash Table (DHT) for peer discovery and store-and-forward offline messaging. The hardest challenges are reliable message replication across ephemeral DHT nodes without spam exhaustion, alongside a secure cryptographic protocol like the Double Ratchet. This requires seasoned systems and security engineers experienced in distributed peer-to-peer protocols.
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #28 of 99 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 242 days after the earliest competitor.
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