Show HN: Well-net – a friends-only IPv6 network with no central server
shynome Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Hi HN,
I built well-net: https://github.com/remoon-net/well
Think tsnet, but without Tailscale or any central server. It’s for secure friend networks — chat, small games, private services.
Existing systems suck in subtle ways: lose your domain → lose your identity and contacts. Delta Chat and Mastodon show the problem. I just want something that works without any central coordination.
Each node gets a stable IPv6 in 2001:00ff::/32 from its MAC using EUI-64. Real MACs → no collisions, no central server needed. NAT is only to avoid overlay address conflicts.
Tech: WireGuard + WebRTC → runs in browsers. Once WebRTC DataChannel works in Service Workers, private services can be accessed directly from the web.
Planned: minimal mail-based chat using Delta Chat with IP-literal addresses like remoon@[2001:ff::1] → DNS-free identity.
Project is experimental.
Would you use this for small friend networks?