GhostChat — a 10KB privacy-first live chat for indie founders

Hey IH 👋

I've been building GhostChat since November — a lightweight live chat widget for indie founders who don't want to ship 300KB of tracking pixels just to talk to their users.

The problem: every chat widget I tried tanked my page load and fingerprinted every visitor. The big-name tools are overkill for a side project. Free alternatives sneak in third-party tracking. I wanted something I'd actually want on my own site.

What it is:

• 10KB gzipped widget (15–30x smaller than the big names)

• Zero cookies, zero fingerprinting, zero third-party scripts

• Reply to visitors from your Gmail inbox OR a clean dashboard

• Multi-site — one account, all your projects

• Bot Agent API: connect any LLM (Ollama / Claude / GPT / your own) via webhook for AI replies — no per-message AI fees, no lock-in

Pricing:

• Free: 1 site, 30-day history, unlimited messages

• Pro: $5/mo — 3 sites, 1-year history, business hours, auto-translate (133 languages), webhooks, Bot Agent API

• Business: $25/mo — team agents, no branding, 10 sites

Stack: Cloudflare Workers + Durable Objects, Supabase, Next.js. Built to run cheap at the edge.

6 months in, real paying customers, bootstrapped solo side project.

Site: https://ghostchat.dev

Would love feedback from anyone who's wrangled with chat widget bloat on their own projects — what did you end up using, and what made you pick it?