Relay

Relay

Free live chat for your website.

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Relay Chat adds anonymous, IRC-style chat on every domain on the Internet, so you can chat with other people browsing the same website.
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Launch tags:
Chrome Extensions
Launch Team

What do you think? …

Joe Keller
My mind is actually blown, haven't seen something like this on PH in forever, hats off to the founders!
Sam Winter
Maker
@joe_keller Thank you! We haven't seen anything like it either, so we had to build it!
@joe_keller @sam_winter wish it didn't have the 75 stars to chat... hard to get going on a website to test.... love it though ... just wish i could use it
Jitin Dodd
Damn bro, this is sick! What tech did you use to make it work? I'd imagine you need it to scale like crazy given you're chatting across the whole freaking internet.
Sam Winter
Maker
@jitindodd Thanks for the kind words! The API is written in Elixir, which is super concurrent out-of-the-box. The hardest part was probably ensuring the app (basically a React app embedded in an iframe) remains performant on every web page. We optimized like crazy.
Eric Froese
@sam_winter We wrote our SaaS API in Elixir too! Love it. Seeing a lot of Elixir on PH, especially the cool products ;)
Sam Winter
Maker
@eric_froese I know right! Huge Elixir fan. My only qualm is the lack of static typing.
Eric Froese
Oh my goodness! I can picture myself on some obscure documentation website and scratching my head about some aspect of the page then... BOOM! Someone else is on this page! Maybe they can give me a hand!
Nate Astrup
@eric_froese we can only hope lol
Sam Winter
Maker
@eric_froese This was literally the impetus for Relay! I read one too many obscure documentation websites.