Yappium
Free chat with voice and video that you can host yourself
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Yappium is chat for communities and friends: text channels, forums, voice, video and screen share, in a browser or the Windows app, with push-to-talk that works while you're in a game. It's free, with no ads and no selling of your data, and you never have to show your face or ID. Anyone can run their own Yappium server for free on Linux, Windows or Docker and open it from the same app. Optional supporter plans start at US$3 a month.
PH · launched Nov 14, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: online community and discussion platforms · 117 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▼ -14% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Messaging
- Privacy
- Games
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More like this: all 117 launches in online community and discussion platforms →
Could you build this?
Partial Text channels, forums, and accounts are standard, but real-time voice and video at scale, screen share, and a game-overlay push-to-talk need specialized real-time infrastructure and Windows-level work.
What it would actually take: A real build would combine a chat backend (WebSocket or a Matrix-style protocol) with WebRTC for voice and video, using an SFU such as LiveKit or mediasoup for multi-party calls, plus a Windows client with a global hotkey and overlay. The hard parts are media-server scaling, NAT traversal and TURN infrastructure, and the low-latency overlay. Those need real-time systems and client-side Windows engineering experience.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 292 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #96 of 293 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 379 days after the earliest competitor.
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- TalkLive · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Heya · ph · 2026-11-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- FreeVoice · ph · 2026-11-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Yeahp · ph · 2026-10-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Anoniz - chat and play with strangers · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Yaply · ph · 2026-11-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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