HIT_ENTER 1.0
Parked (November 2026). The app works and stays open source, but it is
not under active development for now. The project runs no servers you need
and charges no fee. There are no ready-made downloads: build it from this
code. Bigger plans are on hold, not cancelled.
Chat without the server. Groups that run on decentralized software, so
no company can ban them, sell them or switch them off. Channels, roles,
moderation, voice, files — and zaps: tip a message or a file in sats,
straight from one person's wallet to another's, with no fee. (If you still
have beta.5 or earlier installed, its zap dialog mentions a 1% fee, but nothing
is collected any more.)
Open source, MIT licence. Website:
hitenter.app.
- Nostr is who you are: a keypair nobody issued and nobody can ban. Your
existing Nostr identity works here.
- iroh is how machines talk: peer-to-peer QUIC through home routers, no
port forwarding, no public IP.
- Every running app is a relay for the groups its user is in. A group is
alive while any member is online, not just its owner. An always-on
anchor — the same program, headless — keeps it alive when nobody is.
It's optional, and you run your own; zaps in a group need one with a
public
wss:// address.
Beta — builds on Linux, macOS (Apple silicon) and Windows
(macOS, Windows). Start here:
On Debian or Ubuntu, install Rust and these first:
sudo apt install build-essential pkg-config git autoconf automake libtool \
cmake clang libclang-dev libopus-dev libasound2-dev libfontconfig1-dev \
libfreetype6-dev libxkbcommon-dev libwayland-dev libdbus-1-dev
Then:
cargo run --release -p hit-desktop # the app
cargo test --workspace # the tests
The third HIT_ENTER. The first proved iroh between two cities; HIT_ENTER_2
built global accounts, roles, attachments and paid hosting. This one
replaces the accounts with Nostr and the host with everybody.
#WAR_ON_CENTRALIZATION
