Why I Built GhostChat
Every chat tool I tried slowed my site down, tracked my visitors, and cost too much. So I built one that doesn't.
I'm a solo developer. When I needed live chat for my projects, every option was the same story: a 200KB script that tanked my Lighthouse score, cookie banners I didn't want, and pricing that assumed I was an enterprise.
I wanted something radically different. A chat widget that loads instantly, doesn't track anyone, and costs nothing to start. Not free-with-an-asterisk—actually free, forever, for anyone running a single site.
So I built GhostChat from scratch on Cloudflare's edge network. No frameworks, no dependencies, no bloat. The result is the lightest chat widget on the market—20 to 35 times smaller than tawk.to, Crisp, or LiveChat. It loads in milliseconds, scores 100 on Lighthouse, and works on the slowest connections.
GhostChat is built for people like me: indie hackers, micro-SaaS founders, freelancers—anyone who cares about their site's speed and their visitors' privacy but doesn't want to pay enterprise prices for a chat box. Best bang for your buck, period.