You can try the preview version of the chat at https://anon-chat.top
⚠️ This is a preview instance for demonstration purposes. It's not production-ready and may be reset or unavailable at any time.
An anonymous chat application with end-to-end encrypted messages and Proof-of-Work (PoW) based protection against spam and abuse.
- ❌ No cookies
- ❌ No IP tracking
- ❌ No email or phone required
- ❌ No real name (unless you choose to share one)
- ❌ No ID or passport verification
Upon visiting the chat, users are presented with a computational PoW challenge. Successfully solving it grants access to the system and allows the user to search for a chat partner.
The backend does not use a database. All data is stored in-memory only. Messages are encrypted on the client side, and the server cannot decrypt their contents. Once a message is delivered to the recipient, it is immediately deleted from server memory and is not stored or logged in any form.
- Anonymous access without registration
- Proof-of-Work challenge for each session
- Ephemeral in-memory storage
- End-to-end encrypted messages
- Lightweight and privacy-focused
- Backend: Go (Golang)
- Frontend: Svelte
- Build Tool: Make
- API Schema: OpenAPI 3
This project is currently under active development and is not ready for production use. Expect bugs, missing features, and possible protocol or API changes.
- Go 1.24 or newer
- Node.js 22 or newer
- npm 11 or newer
Clone the repository and run the following commands:
make build
cd ./build
./server -port=8080After building, the build/ directory will contain the compiled binary (server) and the frontend/ folder with static assets. The backend and frontend are bundled together: the server will serve both the API and the frontend UI.
The application will be available at http://localhost:8080.
To run the application in development mode, run the backend and frontend servers separately. The backend will proxy requests to the frontend dev server for seamless integration.
go mod download
cd ./cmd/server
go run main.go -devcd frontend
npm install
npm run devAfter starting both development servers, the application will be available at http://localhost:8080.
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