SYsynchronise·Dec 16, 2015
So how does this compare to Gilgamesh, which appears to be pretty much exactly the same thing?
https://github.com/n8fr8/gilgamesh
In Rumble: Twitter over sneakernetn8fr8
gilgamesh
Java2014–2015
n8fr8 / gilgamesh
gilgamesh
Pinwheel (aka GIlga Meshenger: Connecting the Mobile Radio Babylon!)
3Distinct people
4Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
138GitHub stars
What to know before exploring
What it is
Pinwheel (aka GIlga Meshenger: Connecting the Mobile Radio Babylon!)
GitHub
Where it is used
No documented product use has been verified yet.
What people are saying
No recommendation phrase was found in the indexed comments.
No classified warning is attached to this page. Read the discussions before treating silence as approval.
Also in these discussions
No other repository is repeatedly linked in the same discussions.
This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.
No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.
Mentions over time
HN mentions by month4 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2014-10-06 14:22:40 UTC to 2015-12-16 06:35:15 UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
View mention counts and date ranges
| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2014 | 2014-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nov 2014 | 2014-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2014 | 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feb 2015 | 2015-02-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mar 2015 | 2015-03-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Apr 2015 | 2015-04-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| May 2015 | 2015-05-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jun 2015 | 2015-06-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jul 2015 | 2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Aug 2015 | 2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 2015 | 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2015 | 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 2015 | 2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 2015 | 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesThere are a few similar projects, but they all have some differences (afaik):
Firechat [1]: closed source, only group chats, no crypto
Bluechat [2]: only group chats
Pinwheel Messenger [3]: only messages to direct neighbors (no routing)
In contrast, Ensichat is for 1 on 1 chats, uses mesh routing and signs+encrypts messages.
Are there any other, similar projects?
[1] http://firech.at/
[2] https://github.com/AlexKang/blue-chat
[3] https://github.com/n8fr8/gilgamesh
In Show HN: Ensichat – Decentralized instant messenger for AndroidGilgamesh is also similar, but works directly between Android devices over Bluetooth (not Internet).
https://github.com/n8fr8/gilgamesh
In Thousands of Spaniards Leave Twitter for GNU SocialI saw this a few days ago in F-Droid's „Recently Added“ category, a bluetooth chat app called Gilgamesh:
https://github.com/n8fr8/gilgamesh
(https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=info.guardianpro...)
Don't know if it's anonymous or encrypted (is that is even possible?) but other then Firechat (and most other apps linked here until now) it's Open Source.
Would love to know what someone with a more technical expertise than me thinks about this.
In Firechat and nearby communication