LANterm
No server, no cloud — chat across your local network.
What this is
A local-network chat app for people who want to avoid cloud servers entirely and keep conversations on their own LAN.
Our one-line summary — not the founder’s tagline.
- How it works
- Peer-to-peer terminal chat over UDP on the local network — run it, pick a username, and other users on the same WiFi/LAN show up automatically.
- What's different
- No server, no accounts, no setup; messages never leave the local network.
- Pricing
- Open-source, MIT licensed.
- Best for
- LAN parties, offices, workshops, and hackathons.
What we measured
Nobody else publishes this — it comes from knocking on the door every day.
- Watched by us
- 8 days
- Last checked
- 48m ago
Where it shows up
Every group here is a page of its own — each one checked daily.
The numbersIs it still shipping, is it overpriced, where did it land — and what the price is built from.
League price & chart
No money. No seat. It goes on your record — and in 28 days reality settles it.
Calls are closed while we rebuild accounts. You can still read every one of them.
Dev. Launched 8d ago on Product Hunt, picking up 3 votes. Today, it's live, but nothing on the site has changed since we started watching.
Quiet for 4 days — no penalty yet, but quiet doesn't stay free.
We check this site every day, ourselves. A founder can post “still working on it” — a claim like that doesn't price. What we price is what we can verify from the outside: evidence, not announcements. The real question isn't “will this be huge?” — it's “will they still be moving in four weeks?”
The market viewHow this launch is priced and ranked in our league — the investor side of the page.
ranked by the reality anchor, not the market price
It launched on Product Hunt with 3 votes. It also showed up on 1 other board — but didn't place well enough on any of them, so none of them add to the price. Listing on twelve directories is free; placing well on them isn't.
No matter how much money goes in. There is no pump here — you can't make yourself right by buying more. The line only moves on things that actually happened: an award, revenue that grew, a new platform, code that shipped — or silence.
A launch that goes quiet eases down a little at a time — never a cliff you could have run from the night before.
How the launch is moving on its own board, day by day — the crowd's attention.
A flat line is normal: votes stop within a day or two of launch, on every board. What's unusual — and what actually counts — is a launch that keeps pulling votes long after its day is over.
About
LANterm is an open-source terminal chat app for people on the same WiFi or LAN. Run it, pick a username, and everyone else on the network running it just shows up — no server, no accounts, no setup. Messages travel peer-to-peer over UDP and never leave your local network. → Single executable, no runtime to install → Automatic peer discovery → Change your username anytime → MIT licensed For LAN parties, offices, workshops and hackathons.
Where it launched
2 platformsThe board it did best on sets the price. Every other board only adds to it if the launch also placed high on that board too — because just showing up somewhere isn't an achievement. Listing on twelve directories is free; placing well on them isn't.
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