Anychat - Your private communication

You can use service at https://anychat.4me.tips or take a server, install it yourself then share to your partners.

• Basic Authentication username/password: guest/anychat

Background

• You meet a guy that you want to talk to, but you don't want give him your phone.
• You get some questions from stranger, you want to answer but don't want to let him knows your FB messenger/email account.

So you need a chatting method that:

• No installed app required.
• No email, phone or any social account required.
• No session or anything saved after you close browser.
• No one knows who you are.

Some special points

• Other guys CANNOT see anything about your profile exclude your username.
• Easy to share your username to other by QR Code
• The first and only first message from other guy will be sent to you when you offline via email, if you setup in profile.

Stacks

• Nginx
• Puma
• Rails 5.0.2 with ActionCable
• Redis
• MySQL (To store username/password only. If you install it yourself and not much number users, you can replace by SQLite)

Install and deploy your self

Preparing

• Install redis, mysql, nginx on your host.
• Start redis, mysql.
• Create your database.
• Run $cd /path/to/project/ && cp .env.example .env.
• Fill all required information in .env file.

Install in localhost (development mode)

• Do all preparing steps
• Run $bundle install in your local machine.
• Run $bundle exec rails s to start your local server.

Deploy to remote host

• Do all preparing steps
• Define your server, git repo in /path/to/project/config/deploy/staging.rb
• Run $cap staging puma:nginx_config to get new nginx config file.
• Run $cap staging deploy:init from your local machine for first deployment.
• Run $cap staging deploy from your local machine for next deployments.

TODO

• Improve UI, UX.
• Change to SPA.
• Prevent clear data when reload page.

Development

All pull requests, issues, stars are welcome!

License

MIT.