GhostChat
10KB live chat for solo founders. Reply from Gmail.
GhostChat is a lightweight live chat widget built for indie hackers and solo founders. The widget is ~10KB gzipped — 20-30x smaller than Intercom, Tidio, or Crisp — and adds zero blocking time to your site.
Replies happen in Gmail. When a visitor messages your site, you get an email notification. Hit Reply in Gmail and your response lands in the visitor's chat widget in real time. No new dashboard to live in.
Zero cookies, zero third-party tracking. No GDPR consent banner required for the widget itself. Works with WordPress (official plugin), Shopify, Next.js, React, Squarespace, and Wix.
Free forever for 1 site. Pro at $5/mo unlocks 3 sites, 1-year history, WooCommerce context, webhooks, and branding removal. Business at $25/mo supports teams up to 5 agents.
Features
- ~10KB gzipped widget, 20-30x lighter than Intercom/Tidio/Crisp
- Reply to chats directly from Gmail (or any email client)
- Zero cookies, zero tracking, no GDPR consent banner required
- WordPress, Shopify, React, Next.js, Squarespace, and Wix integrations
- WooCommerce context (cart contents, orders) on Pro
- Webhooks + Bot Agent API for custom automation on Pro
- Auto-translate across 133+ languages on Pro
- Up to 5 team agents on Business
- Push notifications on all plans
- Self-hostable — open source widget on Cloudflare Workers
Use Cases
- Solo founders running multiple side projects who don't want to live in a chat dashboard
- WordPress and WooCommerce site owners who need lightweight chat without tanking Lighthouse scores
- Privacy-first sites that don't want chat to trigger a cookie consent banner
- Indie hackers building for technical audiences who appreciate clean architecture
- Small business operators who answer customer questions but aren't full-time support staff
- Teams that want chat replies routed through normal email workflows instead of a separate app
Comments
Hey Fazier, I built GhostChat because every chat widget I tried to install on my WordPress sites tanked the page speed. Intercom, Tidio, Crisp — all 200-500KB of JavaScript loading on every page just so I could occasionally reply to a visitor. So I built one that's ~10KB. No tracking, no cookies, no consent banner. And because I'm a solo founder running multiple side projects, I made it so you reply from Gmail instead of logging into a separate dashboard. Visitor messages → your inbox → hit Reply → lands back in their chat widget in real time. Free for 1 site forever. Pro at $5/mo for 3 sites + Gmail threading + more. Built in the open on Cloudflare Workers. Would love feedback — what's confusing, what's missing, what would make you actually try it. Jacob
The 'reply from Gmail' design is the real standout — with most chat tools the friction isn't the widget, it's being forced to live in yet another dashboard. And at ~10KB it's one of the few widgets that won't wreck a WordPress Lighthouse score. One thing I'd love clarified: when a visitor sends several separate messages, does each become its own Gmail thread or are they grouped per session? Threading is usually where the email-as-inbox approach gets messy.
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Hey Fazier, I built GhostChat because every chat widget I tried to install on my WordPress sites tanked the page speed. Intercom, Tidio, Crisp — all 200-500KB of JavaScript loading on every page just so I could occasionally reply to a visitor. So I built one that's ~10KB. No tracking, no cookies, no consent banner. And because I'm a solo founder running multiple side projects, I made it so you reply from Gmail instead of logging into a separate dashboard. Visitor messages → your inbox → hit Reply → lands back in their chat widget in real time. Free for 1 site forever. Pro at $5/mo for 3 sites + Gmail threading + more. Built in the open on Cloudflare Workers. Would love feedback — what's confusing, what's missing, what would make you actually try it. Jacob
The 'reply from Gmail' design is the real standout — with most chat tools the friction isn't the widget, it's being forced to live in yet another dashboard. And at ~10KB it's one of the few widgets that won't wreck a WordPress Lighthouse score. One thing I'd love clarified: when a visitor sends several separate messages, does each become its own Gmail thread or are they grouped per session? Threading is usually where the email-as-inbox approach gets messy.
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