Ship chat that actually scales. Ably Chat gives developers a purpose-built API for adding realtime messaging to any app - livestreams, in-game comms, customer support, or group chat. SDKs for JS, React, Swift, and Kotlin. Features include typing indicators, presence, reactions, message edit/delete, read receipts, UI kits, and moderation. Built on infrastructure trusted by HubSpot and 17Live, with guaranteed message ordering, 99.999% uptime, and a global edge network. Scale with confidence.
Realtime infra is one of those things where correctness > features every time. At your scale, I’m more curious about message ordering guarantees under partition than the API surface itself.
About Ably Chat on Product Hunt
“The Chat API built for serious scale”
Ably Chat launched on Product Hunt on April 13th, 2026 and earned 76 upvotes and 9 comments, placing #20 on the daily leaderboard. Ship chat that actually scales. Ably Chat gives developers a purpose-built API for adding realtime messaging to any app - livestreams, in-game comms, customer support, or group chat. SDKs for JS, React, Swift, and Kotlin. Features include typing indicators, presence, reactions, message edit/delete, read receipts, UI kits, and moderation. Built on infrastructure trusted by HubSpot and 17Live, with guaranteed message ordering, 99.999% uptime, and a global edge network. Scale with confidence.
On the analytics side, Ably Chat competes within Messaging, Developer Tools and Chat rooms — topics that collectively have 563.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Ably Chat performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Ably Chat?
Ably Chat was hunted by Faye McClenahan. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Faye McClenahan
Realtime infra is one of those things where correctness > features every time.
At your scale, I’m more curious about message ordering guarantees under partition than the API surface itself.