Realtime · self-hosted · expression-first

Say how you feel —
not just what you type.

HTT Chat is realtime messaging that turns the emotion behind each message into a hand-drawn, animated character. Groups, DMs, reactions, search and moderation — with a signature that's all its own.

50
emotions
500
avatars
0
hosting cost
Amara
we shipped it 🎉🎉
incredible work team, so proud

A complete messenger, with feeling.

Everything you expect from a modern team chat — plus an expression engine no other messenger has.

Expression stickers

Every message is read for emotion and answered with a hand-drawn animated character. Fifty feelings, five hundred avatars — pure SVG, zero hosting cost.

Groups, DMs & threads

Server-authoritative realtime over WebSockets — 1:1 messages, group rooms, replies with quote previews, reactions, typing and read receipts.

Search & history

Full-text search inside any room with highlighted snippets, and jump-to-context history paginated by sequence — fast, tenant-scoped, private.

Roles & moderation

Owner → Admin → Moderator → Member → Viewer, with mute, block, message flags and an immutable audit log. Archiving never deletes.

Reputation

Upvotes grant per-room karma and a leaderboard, so the most helpful voices in job and community rooms rise to the top.

Yours to host

Standalone and multi-tenant: own database, own server, complete isolation per organisation. Free and local by default; paid APIs are opt-in.

Light & dark, built in

Designed to be lived in all day.

A calm, professional interface with a considered palette in both light and dark — switch anytime from the toggle up top. Motion is lively but never distracting, and everything respects reduced-motion.

Try the interface
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Priya
how are we feeling about the launch?
honestly? a little nervous but mostly hyped
Marcus
we got this 💪