FireChat v7 is here — and it's been a long time coming

Some projects you maintain. Some projects you live inside. FireChat has been the second kind. For the past six months I've been rebuilding it from the ground up — not because v5 was broken, but because I kept imagining what it could be if I just started fresh with everything I'd learned from building it the first time. v7 is that version. And I'm really glad you're here to see it. A little context if you're new FireChat is a chat app built around one idea: conversations should be able to disappear. You create a session, invite your people, talk — and when everyone leaves, it's gone. No history. No logs. No data that outlives the moment. It started as something I built for a friend group. Somehow it found real users. That changed things. What's new in v7 Real encryption. This was the thing I most wanted to get right. Messages are now encrypted with AES-256-GCM on your device before they touch the server. The key lives in your browser. I can't read your messages. Nobody can. v5 had this