It’s been a week since I shared my chat app — and I’m trying to understand why it didn’t click

It’s been almost 7 days since I shared Firechat, a small chat app I built, and it hasn’t really gone anywhere.

Not ranting. Not upset. Just genuinely trying to understand why.

I originally built Firechat for my friends so we could chat privately without keeping message history. Over time, it slowly became a proper app, so I decided to share it publicly and see if others found it useful too.

Maybe the idea isn’t clear.

Maybe the UI isn’t interesting enough.

Maybe people just don’t need another chat app.

Or maybe I’m just bad at presenting it.

Here’s the app if you want to take a look:

👉 https://fyrechatz.vercel.app

And the source code is here:

👉 https://github.com/bug-free-dev/firechat

If you’ve built side projects before, I’d really appreciate honest feedback — even blunt feedback. “This already exists” or “I wouldn’t use this” is still helpful.

If you have thoughts, ideas, or suggestions on what could be better (or why this didn’t click at all), I’m all ears.

Thanks for reading 🙏

Still building. Still learning. 🔥