Ch.at – a lightweight LLM chat service accessible through HTTP, SSH, DNS and API

71 ownlife 18 8/9/2025, 6:59:37 PM ch.at ↗

Comments (18)

zaik · 2h ago
It seems like the only internet protocols they didn't implement were the ones designed for chat. How could they forget about IRC, XMPP and SIP?
evbogue · 1h ago
This is because when an account generates text in a chatroom it is generally referred to as a "bot".
FraserGreenlee · 4h ago
I see this is using GPT4o, any plans for something more sustainable? Would be interesting to see an https://openfreemap.org for LLMs.

Perhaps via an RNN like in https://huggingface.co/spaces/BlinkDL/RWKV-Gradio-2

Or even just leverage huggingface gradio spaces? (most are Gradio apps that expose APIs https://www.gradio.app/guides/view-api-page)

ivape · 2h ago
I wonder if a 1B model could be close to free to host. That's an eventuality, but I wonder how long it'll take for that to be real.
codazoda · 1h ago
I’m planning to deploy a 1B model, feed it all the documents I’ve ever written, host it on a $149 mini-PC in my bedroom, and enable you to chat with it.

I’ve released similar projects before.

I’ll drop a post about my plans in the coming days and I’ll build and document it about two weeks later if there’s enough interest.

joeldare.com

giantrobot · 2h ago
A 1B model at 2-bit quantization is about the size of the average web page anymore. With some WebGPU support you could run such a model in a browser.

I'm half joking. Web pages are ludicrously fat these days.

puppymaster · 37m ago
been using it on a plane for the past one month. it's a great way to do some light reading and learning about obscure topics.

dig @ch.at "why is gua musang the king of durian" TXT +short

WhatsName · 4h ago
I find the fact that in this day people can own two letter domains absolutely staggering, based on rarity, those should be worth millions I guess?
abxyz · 1h ago
They paid about $50k for ch.at. I have a single letter country code domain (3 characters total, x.xx). There are still some single letter country code domains available to register, you could get one for under $1k USD if you want one.

Here’s a reseller with a variety: https://1-single-letter-domains.com/

These guys run a bunch of services on x.xx domains: https://o.ee/services/ like c.im, r.nf, p.lu.

nunobrito · 2h ago
There was a time that I owned a one letter domain with a two letter country code.

The cost was about 600 USD and was fun, but problematic as it failed to be accepted as valid email address on many websites.

weitendorf · 2h ago
I own vecs.ai and it's surprisingly hard to find buyers. Domains are really just Xoomer NFTs
nadermx · 2h ago
I mean, ch.at is a incredible domain hack. But not sure it's worth millions. If it was ch.com could get mid six figures and up. But either way absolutely amazing domain.
sgjohnson · 2h ago
unless they are .com, nobody cares.
twostorytower · 1h ago
.ai expensive these days too
alhirzel · 50m ago
What are the economics of this?
mattpavelle · 43m ago
This (or something very similar) was on X last week. The use case was so funny: using an LLM on an airplane connected to WiFi when you had not paid for WiFi … because DNS queries are allowed before paying :)
JADev62096 · 39m ago
logging policy?
Nevin1901 · 2h ago
use the new gpt oss to have 0 logs end to end. but cool project