Relay

My mind is actually blown, haven't seen something like this on PH in forever, hats off to the founders!

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!

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.

This is an awesome concept, and I can already see a lot of use cases. Do you have any new features in the pipeline?

Thanks for hunting us, @kevin! And thanks @wheeling51 for your help on the thumbnail! Hi Product Hunt! 😻 This is a dream come true. I’m so excited to launch Relay, a browser extension that adds chat to every website. With Relay, every domain has a built-in, chat-based community that’s at most a click away. Think of it like embedded Discord in your browser, where the channel is whatever website you’re on. People are chatting live right now on producthunt.com! We built Relay to provide a categorically more seamless social experience. We’ve given every domain its own community in a web that’s increasingly dominated by only a few unscrupulous social platforms. We couldn’t be more excited to have you join us. People are already using Relay to get help on Stackoverflow, engage with their own site’s visitors, watch shows together on Netflix, solicit career advice on LinkedIn, talk to other developers on localhost, instantly connect in online classrooms, leave their mark on Google, and pretty much anything else you can think of. It would mean the world to us if you helped us by sharing Relay, whether on social media or offline with your friends. A community is only as great as its members, and I’m sure you all know some great people! If you have any questions or feedback, please leave a comment below or chat with me on Relay. - Sam

Very forward thinking project. Love the direction they are taking. The future of the internet is going to be agnostic overlays over everything from websites, games, apps, VR/AR, and other devices. Can't wait to see more of this type of development. Pros: - It gives the internet back to people to some degree in a nostalgic manner. It allows you to use websites, communicate, and connect like you could in the early days, on your terms without platform capture and communication monopolization/balkinization. - Smooth UI, easy to use, light weight. Cons: - It is going to get difficult to self moderate as it scales and will likely need to fall back on some sort of private rooms. This could have some strange unintended side effects where influential groups of people dominate the conversation on a single website in the public channels. - A lot of difficult UI/UX trade-offs will have to be made eventually - Platforms like this tend to get persecuted when certain ideological groups move in. Will be fascinating to see the direction this takes to ensure it stays open and flexible. Overall, the cons are longer term and general open platform concerns more than anything. These issues could be solved the same way similar problems were solved on IRC. Though this may sacrifice it's simplicity and elegance at some level. Not much to do there. Scaling is scaling and I see this platform going far. So this is a good problem to have. Cheers! Loving it so far 😎

This is incredible! Been daydreaming of something like this for a while :). Also out of curiosity I was wondering how you were planning on acquiring new users and growing the # of downloads? Wishing you tons of success and congrats! :)