Yapper hit 50 concurrent users, would love your feedback
I’ve been building Yapper for a while.
The boring way to explain it is: Discord / TeamSpeak alternative.
But honestly, I didn’t build this just to make “Discord but cheaper” or “TeamSpeak with a new logo”. That would be pointless.
Yapper is for people who want their own voice/chat server again.
Your server.
Your rules.
Your data.
No weird platform owner deciding what your community should look like.
It has voice channels, text chat, screen sharing, file sharing, server customisation, the normal stuff.
But the part I care about most is proximity voice.
You move closer to people, you hear them.
You move away, the conversation fades.
Like being in the same room instead of everyone screaming inside one flat voice channel.
This week we hit 50 concurrent users.
For some people that number is nothing.
For me, after building this thing mostly solo and fixing the kind of bugs that make you question your life choices, it felt massive.
A few things I learned:
Self-hosting is not dead. People still want control, they just don’t want setup pain.
Voice is a pain in the ass. When text breaks, people refresh. When audio breaks, everyone immediately knows.
Copying Discord is a trap. The only reason to exist is to do something different.
Proximity voice sounds like a gimmick until people actually use it. Then it starts making sense.
Still rough in places, still building, still breaking things.
You can join without an account here:
https://yapper.gg/invite?invitation=d13d9b05-6fe5-4af5-9adc-bc003e160a9a
The idea is not just “create a server and invite people”.
I want users to personalise their servers, their maps, their spaces, all of it, so when people join, it doesn’t feel like just another app (WIP)