Recent news about Trump admin officials accidentally leaking war plans via Signal (The Atlantic, March 24, 2025) has renewed concerns over secure messaging. But for me, those concerns aren’t new.

While visiting family and friends in Ukraine, I sat down with a friend for coffee at a café in Kyiv and that’s where it all started - the first sketch of a messenger built for privacy, not profit. We knew most messaging platforms were vulnerable to leaking data, tracking users, and exposing private conversations. We believed we could build something better.

Then the war in Ukraine began, and everything changed. Watching the crisis unfold, we couldn’t just stand by. We felt compelled to act. What started as a personal side project quickly became a mission a way to help people stay safe, communicate freely, and protect their identities when it mattered most. Suddenly, our work had a new kind of urgency. Privacy wasn’t just a principle it was a form of protection. That’s why we built gospl.chat, a fully peer-to-peer messaging app with no servers, no logs, and no central authority. Messages go directly between users, wrapped in strong encryption and tunneled through secure VPNs.

The name GOSPL began as a shorthand for something we called the "GHOST – Security Protocol" - a system designed to offer the kind of protection you’d expect for the most sensitive communications. But over time, the name took on a deeper meaning. GOSPL started to feel like a nod to something more human a sacred exchange, personal and protected. That duality reflects exactly what we’re building: military-grade security, but deeply human.

We made tough choices. We said no to storing message history on our servers. We resisted the temptation to collect analytics. We spent countless hours fine-tuning encryption protocols, applying real-world security use cases, combining technologies and hardening every layer of the product. We didn’t obsess over flashy user interfaces, our priority was on making the app reliable and secure.

We now have a SaaS version available for instant testing, or reach out to us for an installable version for full control. It would be great if you could try it out and let us know what you think!

Check it out: gospl.chat