Huddle Chat Is Dead, Long Live Campfire

April 11, 2008 at 12:06 am PT

That certainly didn’t take long. Just a day after going live, Huddle Chat is no more. Huddle Chat was a Web-based multi-user chat room utilizing the new Google App Engine. It bore a striking resemblance to Campfire, a similar application from 37signals. The main difference was that Campfire used a freemium model (free for up to 4 users, fee for more users), while Huddle Chat was completely free.

Now, technically, there’s nothing wrong with developing an application that looks and feels a lot like a competing application. After all, is it surprising that two Web-based multi-user chat rooms are going to look a lot alike.

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Tagged with: 37signals, apps, Brad Linder, Campfire, downloadsquad, Google, HuddleChat

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