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CLUSTER CHAT-INDICATORS-REAL · 21 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-08-16

Real-time chat apps

This cluster consists of real-time chat applications that enable direct messaging between users, with common features like presence tracking, typing indicators, and profile search. The dated history before index start is too thin to read a shape from, as only two entries exist from that period. Traction leaders are emolens (2 stars), realtime-chat (1 star), and Hamsa (0 stars), based on activity signals.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JUL 2025: 1FEB 2026: 1AUG 2026: 6SEP 2026: 9OCT 2026: 4
JUL 2025OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 3 hand-coded · 17 unlabelled

Operator · 18 hobby · 2 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01realtime-chat1★2 molivehobbyReal-time messaging web app that lets users join chat rooms, see typing indicators, and view past message history anonymously.
  2. 02Hamsa0★18 dayslivehobbyReal-time chat app that offers live messaging, typing indicators, online presence, read receipts, friends, and image sharing with Arabic support.
  3. 03chat_time0★todaylivehobbyReal-time chat app that lets users sign in, find people by name or email, and exchange text, photos, and videos with unread notifications.
  4. 04Ai_chatbot0★6 dayslivehobbyReal-time chat app with email and Google sign-in, direct messaging, group chats with admin controls, presence, and typing indicators.
  5. 05mern-xchat0★22 dayslivehobbyReal-time chat app that lets users register, search for people, send direct messages, and see typing indicators.
  6. 06realtime-chat-app0★14 days—hand-codedhobbyMobile chat application that lets users exchange live messages with chat history, typing indicators, and online status.
  7. 07realtime-chat-app0★23 days—hobbyMobile chat app enabling real-time messaging, voice and video calls, with typing indicators and read receipts.
  8. 08RealTimeChatify0★1 day—hobbyReal-time chat application that lets users register, send messages, see online presence, and share images.
  9. 09Broadcastchat-for-college-cheating0★25 days—hobbyGroup chat application that lets users send messages, see chat history and typing indicators, and view who is online.
  10. 10Chatify0★5 days—hand-codedhobbyChat application that provides real-time messaging, presence tracking, typing indicators, and email notifications for users.
  11. 11Realtime-chat-app0★1 molivehobbyReal-time chat application that lets users message each other directly with presence, typing indicators, read receipts, and profile search.
  12. 12roomline0★1 moliveReal-time web chat with rooms, presence indicators, typing notifications, and persistent message history.
  13. 13ChatFirebase0★1 mo—hobbyReal-time chat app that lets users register, log in, view contacts, and start one-on-one conversations with live message updates.
  14. 14chat-app0★1 mo—hobbyMobile chat app that lets users send real-time messages, customize profiles and avatars, search contacts, and see online status.
  15. 15ChatNest0★1 molivehobbyWeb app that provides real-time chat rooms with live messaging, online presence, and typing indicators.
  16. 16chat-app0★1 mo—hand-codedhobbyReal-time chat app with named rooms, message history, typing indicators, and online user lists.
  17. 17Decoy-Code-Review-Chat0★2 molivehobbyReal-time chat app for work with user search and messaging, presented as a GitHub PR review interface.
  18. 18QuickChat0★1 mo—Chat app that lets users join rooms, see who is online, see typing indicators, and keeps message history.
  19. 19PulseChat0★1 mo—hobbyMobile app that provides real-time messaging with typing indicators, online presence, and paginated message history between users.
  20. 20live-gc0★2 mo—hobbyReal-time group chat service that creates rooms, messages, shows typing indicators, and online presence.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.