BLIP
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“What's "neat" about the Salesforce one is that you can run it locally”
“Blip is also a nice alternative”
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“Works like charm, supported on pretty much all platforms”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“I have a variable integer length encoding scheme that beats out LEB128, Protobuf, varint and ASN.1”
“I am not really advertising it so much as wondering if it's actually useful to others”
“I built an encrypted chat that stores nothing”
“I built BLIP because I saw someone in a group chat”
Threads where it came up
- Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop 2 mentions
- Almost Always Unsigned 1 mention
- DeepSeek Introduces Vision 1 mention
- Progressive encoding and decoding of 'repeated' protobuffer fields 1 mention
- Show HN:walkie-talkie-style chat with no records,created with just a single link 1 mention
- Show HN: Blip – Ephemeral chat that stores nothing, anywhere. open source 1 mention
Also written as Blip. Data: blip.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 3
“What's "neat" about the Salesforce one is that you can run it locally”
“Blip is also a nice alternative”
“Works like charm, supported on pretty much all platforms”