Show HN: Built a simple browser-based tool to chat with yourself across devices
After working on this for a couple of weeks, I'm excited to share something small but (hopefully) useful — it's called TextPC.com The idea is super simple: it lets you chat with yourself between your phone and your computer. Most of the time, we just want to send a quick link, a bit of text, or a note from our phone to our PC (or the other way around). But doing that smoothly can be surprisingly annoying. Bluetooth is slow, requires pairing, and doesn’t even work out of the box on iPhones. Messaging apps like WhatsApp or Telegram work, but they need you to log in, and if you’re using someone else’s computer, you probably don’t want to leave your account behind or dig through chats to find what you just sent. TextPC tries to solve that in the easiest way possible:
- Open the site on your PC - Click to create a chat room - Scan the QR code with your phone or tablet
Now your phone and PC are connected in a private chat, right in the browser. No installs, no accounts, and everything disappears when you're done. It’s quick, private, and perfect for those little moments when you just want to move something from one device to another without any setup or stress.
Just a small project, but I hope it helps someone out there. Let me know what you think
I joined on my phone but then accidentally hit F5 and lost the chat so I had to scan a new QR code and open the new chat on my phone.
I am also curious how it is private because there's no E2EE or anything like that, so for all we know you could be storing every single message sent.