Hideout – to explore the cold-start problem

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Hi HN,I’m building Hideout, a small web-based chat app inspired by Discord-style rooms, but stripped down to the minimum.I started this project because I was curious about one specific problem: how do you make a real-time chat app feel alive with very few users?Right now:Hideout has ~35 usersOne main roomText chat onlyNo moderation tools, bots, or servers to configureThe app is intentionally simple. When someone joins, they’re dropped directly into the active room so conversations aren’t fragmented.The hardest issue so far has been the cold start problem — users joining at different times and finding empty rooms. I’m experimenting with:activity concentration (one room)time-based promptssyste

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Website: joinhideout.vercel.app