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24 alternatives to Botschaft – self-hosted messaging and notifications API

universal messaging & notifications gateway. Contribute to tmkontra/botschaft development by creating an account on GitHub.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Botschaft – self-hosted messaging and notifications API launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   Botschaft – flexible self-hosted notifications▲8

   universal messaging & notifications gateway. Contribute to tmkontra/botschaft development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Telegram Bot Platform 2.0▲474

   A new era of messaging

   2016 · telegram.org · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Message.io▲296

   Bots that work everywhere

   2016 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Hoppscotch Self-Host▲237

   Open-source API development — now on-premise!

   2023 · hoppscotch.io · its alternatives →

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   Gosms – Your own local SMS gateway powered by Golang▲101

   2015 · haxpax.github.io · its alternatives →

6. 6
   SMS Chatbot▲99

   Build your own SMS based text-bot in Botsify.

   2020 · botsify.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Bot accepts every pull request for its own code▲155

   The project where anything goes, as long as the code allows it - botwillacceptanything/botwillacceptanything

   2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

8. 8
   CloudRail 3.0▲113

   Connect to APIs 10x Faster

   2017 · belden.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Twilio for Slack▲190

   Enable SMS conversations with Slack+Twilio

   2020 · clerk.chat · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Telnyx SMS API▲111

    Build global text messaging right in your app

    2019 · telnyx.com · its alternatives →

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    Open-source Telegram bot for music sharing▲41

    Telegram Music Catalog Bot. Contribute to szastupov/musicbot development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    A chat client built on git▲81

    Contribute to staab/git-chat development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Botsman▲69

    Free platform to develop, test and monitor Telegram bots

    2020 · its alternatives →

14. 14
    GitHub Notifications on Slack Using Clojure and AWS Lambda▲20

    Github notifications on Slack. Contribute to casidiablo/tako development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    First free open-source Telegram freelance market▲13

    Code for @arbeit_bot Telegram bot. Contribute to ArbeitBot/ArbeitBot development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Simple message builder for Alexa Skills using Node.js▲29

    Simple message builder for Alexa replies. Contribute to stojanovic/alexa-message-builder development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Open Source Twitter, Slack, IoT Bots▲6

    A full list of open source bots. Contribute to botwiki/open-source-bots development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Herodotus – An IRC bot that logs a channel's activity to JSON▲18

    An IRC bot written in node.JS that logs a channel's activity and saves it to JSON, JSONL, Markdown, or CSV - egladman/herodotus

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Messaging APIs▲5

    A mono repo which collects APIs needed for bot development.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    SMSGo▲2

    SMS API for Brazilian Devs: Typed Node SDK & no monthly fees

    Jul 2026 · smsgo.com.br · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Ping2me▲6

    Instant Notifications to Your Chat, no coding required

    2023 · ping2.me · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Open-Source JavaScript library for creating WhatsApp bots▲10

    A Node.js library for creating bots and sending/receiving messages using the Whatsapp Cloud API. - tawn33y/whatsapp-cloud-api

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Telegramsjs▲6

    Telegramsjs - is a lightweight Node.js library for ccreating

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    @InstantRemindersBot▲10

    Easiest and fastest way to create reminders in Telegram

    2018 · t.me · its alternatives →

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