Story

This weekend I finally shipped Gryt, a project I’ve been building since 2022 — an open-source, self-hostable Discord-style app focused on reliable voice chat + text.

I’m the creator. I started it after getting fed up with Discord disconnects/paywalls and wanted something self-hosted and auditable.

I started on this in 2022 and had an early proof-of-concept working back then (auth + friends list), but I quickly realized WebRTC voice isn’t something you can duct-tape together. I spent a big chunk of the next couple years learning the stack (ICE/DTLS-SRTP, NAT traversal, SFU design), then came back and built a proper end-to-end architecture and polished it to the point where I felt comfortable releasing it publicly.

Repo: https://github.com/Gryt-chat/gryt Quick start: https://docs.gryt.chat/docs/guide/quick-start Web client: https://app.gryt.chat