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Fleet

Fleet is a real-time chat application built around one idea: conversations that disappear. Every room is ephemeral — it and all its messages are gone within 30 minutes of the last activity. No accounts. No history. No traces.

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Why Fleet?

Most chat tools keep everything forever. Fleet does the opposite:
  • Ephemeral by design — rooms self-destruct after 30 minutes of inactivity
  • No sign-up required — pick a username and join a room, that’s it
  • Real-time — messages appear instantly via WebSockets (Socket.IO)
  • Private — nothing is stored permanently on disk

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How it works

  1. Enter a username and a room name on the home page
  2. Share the room name with whoever you want to invite
  3. Chat in real-time — everyone in the room sees messages as they’re typed
  4. When the room expires, everything is gone

Quickstart

Get Fleet running locally in under 2 minutes

Docker

Deploy with Docker or Docker Compose

Rooms

Learn how rooms work and expire

Privacy

Understand Fleet’s privacy model