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Relay - An extension that adds Discord-style chat to every website

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Relay is a browser extension that adds anonymous, live chat to every website, so you can chat with everyone else on the same site. Relay eliminates the gap between browsing the Internet and talking about it.

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Eugeniu Vozoca
Cool project. If only it was launchable from Chrome's extensions bar instead of injecting it into websites... You can't just assume that part of the screen is free for grabs for any website and I wouldn't want to see the icon always there.
Sam Winter
Maker
@devjah Totally hear you on that! To respect users' screen real estate, we made clicking the Relay icon in the browser toggle its visibility. Once you click it, it won't show again until you click it again. Hope that helps!
Josemaria Nriagu
Just joined PH, with my angelList profile to upvote Relay! Keep it up team💯🙌
Sam Winter
Maker
@thedrflynn you the best! Glad to know we have users like you supporting us.
Josemaria Nriagu
@sam_winter sure buddy. keep it up
Uğur Keskin
OMG THATS AN AWESOME IDEA I WISH I WOULD THINK THAT BEFORE
Sam Winter
Maker
@ugur_keskin Thanks, we were lucky to think of it!
esch89
Oh this is super cool!
Sam Winter
Maker
@esther_cheng thank you!
Travis
I guess i'm not getting the execution on this though? I get the tech stack, I get all the use cases, but don't both "chatters" have to have the extension installed? Therefore, it's going to be like building a marketplace...you'll need huge scale and distribution to make this relevant....
Sam Winter
Maker
@askmesaas you're totally right that this is a particularly difficult cold-start problem (which is why I think this type of product hasn't been successful previously). One way we plan to tackle that issue is by making Relay available as a script tag, so website owners can unlock a chat community with a single tag. We're working on that right now.
Travis
@sam_winter Right on. I'm a fan either way and the use cases are really staggering tbh. Single tags, APIs etc, all good ways to make this dead simple if you can. I wish you guys success!
Sam Winter
Maker
@askmesaas thank you! We can't wait to see where this thing takes us.
Markus Saitmacher
Are you guys planning to add mobile support? E.g. thin layer over the default in-app web browser. Would love to support you guys with Flutter or React Native.
Sam Winter
Maker
@markus_saitmacher1 I think mobile is a must for chat. Would love to pick your brain on the implementation.
BΞN
@sam_winter great idea. Sadly it only works for domains and not URL's =/ For example » just one chat for all videos on youtube is too general. would be nice to chat with people watching the same video. on the other hand it could resolve into always empty relay chat. But if you would provide a switch (domain/URL) that would be pretty neat I guess.
Sam Winter
Maker
@hi_iamben that's a great point. We do plan to provide path-based channels on a case-by-case basis once a certain domain reaches critical mass.
Douglas Hewitt
This is super cool. Also good name. We should chat.
Sam Winter
Maker
@madebydouglas thank you! Great minds think alike 😛
Douglas Hewitt
@sam_winter haha definitely!
Matea Kofiloska
Amazing idea :)
Sam Winter
Maker
@mateakofiloska thank you!
Neu
I once was about to build something like this. This is lit! You guys can do great! Best wishes!
Sam Winter
Maker
@siddharthaneu thanks for your kind words! Hope you enjoy the app 😊
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