Show HN: TapChat is mobile IRC done right

Hey, thanks for checking this out! I wrote this because it's the app I've always wanted, and would love to hear your feedback.

I came here to rant about "yet another service that logs all its users conversations" and then it turns out this one is self-hosted and open-source. Great job!

Any chance for iPhone support? I am kind of tired of my weird znc + colloquy setup.

Finally, IRC is now usable on a mobile device. Great work Eric.

You beat me to it, this has literally been sitting at the top of my "one of these days" list for a few weeks now. Looks great, I'll be trying it out tonight.

This costs money and I can’t really test it before I spend a substantial amount of money (for an app, common!). Any chance to get a trial version or something like that?

We had a pretty good app on webOs for IRC, wIRC. I always felt it was mobile IRC done right. Here's the project page:

http://www.webos-internals.org/wiki/Application:WIRC

It's open source too, code can be found here:

https://github.com/webos-internals/wIRC

It helped me learn webOS plugins, which are native components written in C++ that set up a special interface for javascript-plugin communication. It's a great app.