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Show HN: Open-source chat app that saves NO messages, anywhere, ever

Inspired by Facebook's whistleblower confession about how Facebook (among some other apps) cares more about negative content and doesn't care about privacy, I decided to create an open-source chat app. This chat app doesn't save any history or messages in the database. Chat history is active as long as you are in the conversation screen, once you go back or close it, messages are not there. Some kind of "live chat". I made it open-source because I want people to be able to see how their data is being used and to see the truth behind the scene. By not open-sourcing the code it would by only my word "I'm not saving history", in this way it's tangible. I published the backend part on GitHub, the app is coming soon. You can follow me on Twitter (https://twitter.com/PozitivnaMirta) for more updates on my progress. Also you'll find there Github repos.

LinuxBender 5y ago
That is a good cause to work on. Could you please also link the github repo here for the folks that wish to not visit twitter?
- PozitivnaMirta 5y ago
  Of course https://github.com/PozitivnaMirta https://github.com/PozitivnaMirta
derekzhouzhen 5y ago
Hey, this is show HN, where you supposedly "show" your stuff?
- PozitivnaMirta 5y ago
  I actually have something to show, it's open source and currently I'm showing a code
wilford205 5y ago
ezekg 5y ago
Encryption should be mandatory for privacy-focused apps like this. If messages are not verifiably end-to-end encrypted, then we only have your word that you're not storing or logging messages on the backend [0]. There's no way to prove you're running only the code in the repos, and not something else. Looking at the site and backend/iOS repos, I didn't see any mention of encryption. [0]: https://github.com/PozitivnaMirta/phantomchat-backend https://github.com/PozitivnaMirta/phantomchat-backend