The inspiration came from a development project where I was discarding some killmail data, and I decided to do something with that. Subsequently I decided fusing together kill mails with a level of atmosphere and depth that the community didn't ask for.
The scope is very simple, stream kills as fast as technically possible utilizing the latest tech and ideas.
Winner of CCP Fanfest 2026 New Developer of the Year.
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- Real-time WebSocket feed. Sub-second from kill to client. Most killboards poll; Socket.Kill pushes (Publically available)
- Per-kill social previews. OG tags rendered server-side via Cloudflare Pages Functions, so Discord, Twitter, and Bluesky cards reflect actual kill data.
- Edge-cached image proxy. Ship renders, corp logos, alliance logos served via Cloudflare's edge. Performance improvement from the CCP image server.
- Multi-channel Discord integration. Whale alerts, AT/officer/Rorqual sightings, Multiple Value Thresholds
- Multi-mode filtering on the live feed, you can filter corporations, alliances, systems and region to configure your own view.
- Atmospheric interface. Terminal-aesthetic design from the alien franchise
- Query Builder. Coming Soon TM - configure your own question using the query builder module, resulting on the days killmails.
- Runtime: Node.js
- Transport: Socket.io (WebSocket + polling fallback)
- Backend: DigitalOcean ARM VM
- Frontend: Astro/Svelte/Tailwind
- Storage: Cloudflare R2/KV
- Image delivery: Cloudflare edge
- EVE data: ESI (EVE Swagger Interface) for character, corporation, and universe data
A public image proxy API is available for EVE Online assets. Free to use for personal and third-party projects. If you integrate this API into your tool or application, a credit link back to socketkill.com is appreciated.
Full API documentation: api.socketkill.com/docs
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Killmail data: zKillboard