Have a private chat with close friends. Only people with the secret link can join. Share silly websites, images, and stories. Be serious when you need to. Each post is auto-deleted after ten days, fading like memories.

This is the open source project, called 8-bits of ephemera. The live site is ephemeral.im

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You'll need Python 2.7 and the App Engine SDK.

Run this command to build PyCrypto. It's built locally so it won't pollute your global site-packages. Using Brew is fine too.

cd pycrypto
python setup.py build

You need some secret keys for the session cookie library and XSRF protection. Run this script once to generate them.

./make_secrets.sh

./run_server.sh
# Navigate to http://localhost:8080

./run_server.sh
# Navigate to http://localhost:8080/tests/index.html

./gendepsfile.sh
./compile.sh
# Notice that deps.js and compiled.js have changed

Make sure you change backend/app.yaml to use your app ID and version number. Then run:

appcfg.py update backend

You can test a new version on a URL like http://your-version-id.your-app-id.appspot.com/