u/Emergency_Picture_47

We're a 3-person team and we may have gone overboard.

Open beta is live for RCQ -an iOS messenger we have been building for a while. Looking for stress testers before we scale.

Privacy first: signup is just a UIN (ICQ-style numeric ID) and a nickname. No phone, no email, ever. E2EE built on libsignal -same library Signal uses (X3DH, Double Ratchet, sealed sender). iOS client is open source so you can audit the crypto layer yourself.

What is inside:

- 1-on-1 and group chats, voice and video calls, audio rooms with mesh routing

- Random Chat (anonymous strangers, with reporting + safety controls)

- Radio Chat -local-mesh chat and voice over Bluetooth, works without internet (subway, festivals, off-grid, or problematic government that doesn't allow you to live in peace. Range 30 meters and 100+ via WiFi Direct)

- People Nearby -opt-in geo-buckets with anonymous local chat for your area

- Stories, voice notes, photos, replies, reactions

- Cosmetics and pets that show up next to your nickname. Pets can be tempered through a hardcore Russian-roulette upgrade where success rates start at 90 percent and drop to 8 percent at the top. Fail and your pet burns to ash.

- A small in-app economy with marketplace, item trade, UIN auction

- Mini-games on virtual currency (Crash, Hi-Lo, Limbo, this functionality is not related to the messenger in any way; during the test, all currency is free. Just for fun)

Everything inside is virtual currency. No IAP, no real money, nothing to buy.

What we need from testers:

- Install, use it for a few days

- Tell us what breaks (in-app Bug Bounty or DM)

- Honest UX feedback

iOS source: https://github.com/rcq-messenger/rcq-ios

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/GH4y15S5

Site: https://rcq.app

Stress test welcome. Be brutal.