termcall

Chat rooms and ASCII video calls that live in your terminal.

$ tc

  termcall

  1  chat room
  2  video call
  q  quit

Install

macOS / Linux   curl -fsSL https://call.dharun.dev/install.sh | sh
Windows         irm https://call.dharun.dev/install.ps1 | iex

Or take a binary from the releases page. One file, nothing else to install — ffmpeg rides along inside it.

How it works

• Chat messages pass through a Cloudflare Durable Object, one per room. Text is small and rare, so a room costs close to nothing to run.
• Video does not. After the handshake, frames go straight between terminals over WebRTC — Cloudflare carries the introduction and then nothing at all.
• What crosses the wire is a small JPEG, not characters. Each terminal renders it locally, so everyone picks their own look and their own size, and can change either mid-call.
• Nothing is stored anywhere. When the last person leaves a room, it is deleted and its code is free again.