Chapp - Real-time, topic-based chat (long live IRC!)

Credit to @riptari on TechCrunch for surfacing this gem. I was recently looking for a simple web-based chat room and couldn't find any good solutions (cc @FurqanR). On Chapp you can join trending topics or create your own. Naturally, I just created a Product Hunt room. Join me! P.S. it supports animated GIFs.

And built with meteor.js! :D

It's a little buggy and not nearly as polished as Slack or other more established chat apps, but I like its simplicity. Having a good convo w/ some PH folks now.

agree with @rrhoover, it is a bit buggy and it was fun talking to people on producthunt :) I do like it's simple and I've been looking for something like this to create a chat room fast. I hope it didn't require a registration and allowed anonymous logins.

Embeddable yet? How long until I can write a bot? Would love some design tweaks that allow the conversation to flow a little better. But, excited that this exists. How is Leah Culver’s https://grove.io/ going?

Hey @thomasknoll Still very early days for Chapp. We have a lot of ideas for its future, but for now we're focused on building traction and improving the UX. Embedding on other sites would certainly move it toward becoming a platform.

Really appreciate you bringing some folks over to Chapp @rrhoover. Let us know if there's anything we can do to make the service better for you and the Product Hunt people.

Thanks, @shelkie & @karj! I enjoyed the "chapp" (is that what we're calling it?) this morning. ;) Some product feedback (some I know is obvious): 1) Speed - it's a little annoying to have to wait for the first message to send before I can even begin typing the next one 2) Click to @mention and Auto-Complete - make it easier for me to reply to specific people in the thread 3) More Personal and "Alive" - it's not clear who's in the room (active or afk) and some visual identifier such as a profile pic, would add more personality/self-expression to the conversation How are people using the product so far? Any common behavior?

Not sure what to call sessions yet. That said, if “chapp” becomes the reference for that, we’ll run with it. :-) Responses to your questions: 1. Speed: This really shouldn’t be an issue—and it definitely won’t be a permanent one. It’s just a matter of one node in the cluster misbehaving. We’re working with the people at Modulus to fix this. 2. Click to @mention and Auto-Complete: This is one of many features that’s on our to-do list. 3. More Personal and “Alive”: Eventually, you’ll see active users highlighted in green on their posts, and a sidebar showing the channel participants sorted by active/inactive, and karma. We’re pretty happy with how the service has been received, so far. We launched on Monday, and there are over 350 registered users. We have lots work to do, and many changes already underway. That said, we’re happy to see some people becoming active, and visit durations seem to be decent.

I've been using this for a little bit, I really like it!