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Super simple group chat, without a subscription

18 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 3 stories, 15 comments · first 2025-09-04 · latest 2026-10-04

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  1. …and applies other caching changes. https://x.com/zachsdaniel1/status/2106820451557073175 https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire-elixir/blob/main/l... https://raw.githubusercontent.com/basecamp/once-campfire-eli...…
    comment by gavinray · 2026-10-04 · in I've had agents implement and optimize the Campfire web app in Elixir, Go, Rust
  2. …a clear link to the source code on GitHub [1], so you don't need to go through the "checkout". [1]: https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire
    comment by monooso · 2026-02-10 · in Discord Alternatives, Ranked
  3. …or something per domain, when did it switch to being free? Edit: found it, it was in August 2025 https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire/commit/df76a227dc1...
    comment by striking · 2026-01-19 · in Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss
  4. …in the Small Bets fork. Previously, 37signals recently changed the license of Campfire to be FOSS: https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire [0] https://github.com/antiwork/smallbets/ [1] https://x.com/dvassallo/status/1970489062185185497
    comment by entrepy123 · 2025-09-23 · in Small Bets chat is now FOSS, an extensively modified Campfire (37signals) chat
  5. …Very cool that they open sourced it. MIT license too. https://x.com/dhh/status/1963675999012552970 https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire
    comment by powvans · 2025-09-20 · in Did you read the quarter-million-line license for your Slack app?
  6. …A quote from Fried's tweet: Campfire...it's now 100% free...and open source. Here's a quote from https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire/blob/main/MIT-LICE... Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy…
    comment by realityfactchex · 2025-09-18 · in Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
  7. …chat product, Campfire, open source and free earlier this month: - https://once.com/campfire - https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire I imagine the response for many of these communities will be "Let's migrate to Discord" - but I think…
    comment by dcchambers · 2025-09-18 · in Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
  8. …requirements. IANAL but those license terms don't seem to be anywhere in the software repository. https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire
    comment by hardwaresofton · 2025-09-18 · in Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
  9. …were replaced with SaaS closed communities because of spam... Fyi, Campfire is open source now: https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire
    comment by pelagicAustral · 2025-09-18 · in Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
  10. Or better this: https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire
    comment by wltr · 2025-09-18 · in Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
  11. I think using importmaps might be why it is restricted (see https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire/blob/main/app/cont... ) to some browser versions. One can try to migrate it to vitejs for example or any other JS/CSS build tool and it…
    comment by gls2ro · 2025-09-07 · in Campfire: Web-Based Chat Application
  12. I got a kick out of seemingly server-side browser blocking https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire/blob/eecdb29332527... without one iota of "but, why?"
    comment by mdaniel · 2025-09-07 · in Campfire: Web-Based Chat Application
  13. …models, haven't encountered a single code comment yet, just chiselled-out ruby. Arbitrary examples: https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire/blob/main/app/cont... https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire/blob/main/app/cont...…
    comment by nomilk · 2025-09-07 · in Campfire: Web-Based Chat Application
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    Campfire: Web-Based Chat Application
    story by thunderbong · 2025-09-07 · 30 comments
  15. https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire
    comment by indigodaddy · 2025-09-06 · in Campfire Is Now Free and Open Source
  16. Too bad they didn't say "here's why not (Mattermost|Zulip|probably 15 other ones)" cute: https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire/blob/eecdb29332527...
    comment by mdaniel · 2025-09-05 · in Campfire Open Sourced
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    Campfire Open Sourced
    story by walterbell · 2025-09-04 · 1 comment
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    Once Campfire now free with MIT licence
    story by TiredOfLife · 2025-09-04 · 1 comment