Show HN: Burn Room – ephemeral SSH chat, messages burn after 1 hour

Category: infrastructure

Tags: ssh, chat, ephemeral, encryption, privacy

Score: 5.7/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 6, Documentation: 4, Utility: 5)

Burn Room is an ephemeral chat service accessible via SSH or web, featuring end-to-end encrypted rooms that self-destruct after one hour. It combines terminal-based interaction with privacy-focused ephemeral messaging, offering features like shadow rooms and multi-language translation. The project is interesting for its novel use of SSH as a chat transport and strong privacy guarantees.

Target audience: privacy-conscious users, developers, system administrators

Repository: https://burnroom.chat

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