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I’m Pranav, co-founder of Chatwoot (https://github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot), an open-source alternative to Intercom and Zendesk. What started as a passion project in 2019, gained a lot of momentum recently. This was possible because of all the contributions and love we got from the community. We’ve created a page (https://contributors.chatwoot.com) to showcase our contributors’ work and give them a platform to share their contributions with the world. We open-sourced this little project too. We’ve made our repo for other open-source projects to use it as a…

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    Chatwoot329

    Open-source alternative to Intercom & Zendesk

    2021

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    Open source self-hosted customer engagement suite

    2021

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    Gitter131

    free public chat rooms for open source projects on GitHub

    2014

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    Create a GPT chatbot for any GitHub repo in just 30 seconds

    2023

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    One click hiring from Open Source and tech communities

    2023

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    Hi friends! I've been waiting for ChatGPT Code Interpreter access for so long that I decided to just build my own. I figured maybe some of you are in the same boat so decided to do it as an Open Source project.

    2023 · ricklamers.io

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    Write a thank you letter to your favor open source project!

    2017

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    Tinder for developers! Find coding partners & build together

    Jul 2026 · codenearby.space

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    Chaton88

    1:1 video chat P2P open source

    2021

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    Discover open-source tools with an AI chat assistant

    Apr 2026

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    Joia120

    Open-source "ChatGPT for Teams" alternative

    2024

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    Collect, organize, and share AI prompts. Free & Open Source.

    Dec 2025

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    Chatvas69

    An infinite canvas for ChatGPT branches

    Feb 2026

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    I created a pet project to see if it is of use and interesting to people. The idea is on-demand real-time chat rooms for trending topics and for personal use. You can go to the main page at www.urshoutbox.com to create your own room then share it across your social networks/email, etc. I created a hacker news specific "shoutbox" at http://www.urshoutbox.com/bLmYAL/hacker-news . If nobody is in there, please be patient and (I hope) people will join soon to start talking. The idea is to have trending topics on facebook/twitter/etc and have chat rooms to get…

    2014 · urshoutbox.com

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    800M people use ChatGPT and Claude weekly. Right now they get text responses. Soon they'll get real interfaces: product cards, blog posts, booking flows, payment screens rendered directly in the conversation. We built an open-source component library for this. Install any block with one command and customize it to your brand. If you're building MCP servers or experimenting with AI-native apps, this might save you time. Are you building apps for AI assistants? Would love to hear what's missing in your workflow.

    Dec 2025 · ui.manifest.build

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    Hello HN, I am building a devtool to understand existing codebases. The idea originates from my time at big tech as well as various attempts to get involved in open source projects. When I was in college I wanted to improve my coding skills by contributing to opensource projects. I would pickup a bug or feature request but I always found myself stuck at the very first step. I did not understood where and how to begin contributing. I once submitted a patch in firefox which was labeled "Good first issue" but that was still very handheld. The assigner told me exactly which files I need to…

    2024 · lucidcode.ai

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    We have been using GPT to write code since playground days. This UI avoids logins, gpt-4 throttling and is also cheaper to use than ChatGPT Premium. We also have various features to minimize costs and speed up iteration. Furthermore html & mermaid previews are a taste of the kind of features help-yourself opensource model enables vs official UI. For backstory see our blog posts: https://blog.humphd.org/chatcraft-org/ https://taras.glek.net/post/chatcraft.org-opensourcechatgpt-...

    2023 · chatcraft.org

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    I spent the past few weeks making an open source cloud code editing environment with an AI copilot and multiplayer collaboration! It's fully self-hostable in 5-10 minutes. There's a lot of minor improvements to be made, and some are already listed in the Github issues. Let me know what you think and feel free to try it out.

    2024 · github.com

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    This weekend I finally shipped Gryt, a project I’ve been building since 2022 — an open-source, self-hostable Discord-style app focused on reliable voice chat + text. I’m the creator. I started it after getting fed up with Discord disconnects/paywalls and wanted something self-hosted and auditable. I started on this in 2022 and had an early proof-of-concept working back then (auth + friends list), but I quickly realized WebRTC voice isn’t something you can duct-tape together. I spent a big chunk of the next couple years learning the stack (ICE/DTLS-SRTP, NAT traversal, SFU design),…

    Feb 2026 · gryt.chat

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    I'm building an AI platform, FlowChai and found a neat use case for it today that I thought would be useful to HN readers. I use GPT4 heavily for writing / editing code, but a major downside is that it doesn't know about new projects. I made the connection today that I could upload the zip file of a Github repo to FlowChai and then write prompts just like with ChatGPT with code questions. While the original intent for this platform is more around natural language, it's neat how this works so well. It's powered underneath by pgvector and OpenAI embeddings.

    2023 · flowch.ai

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    Hello HN, I just launched presbot.com Presbot makes it really easy to create a professional grade chatbot. There’s no code to write, workflows to build, is office appropriate, has community features (likes, connections, private messages), ability to track views, chat transcripts and more, plus is totally free. You can personalize the look and feel of your chatbot, train it with prescribed questions, add your own questions and share its link on your resume. It can answer questions on your behalf when you’re not reachable or busy. Think of it as a super scaled down interactive version of…

    2020

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    Myself and three friends, for the last year have been building our own side project, the aim of this side project was to show off the creative side of developers. One of my bug bears with Reddit is how quickly things get buried. The bug bear has turned into the basis for what I been building on the side called The Full Stack. A platform to show off developer projects basically. Another bug bear of mine over the years has been trying to find open source or just cool side projects to work on with others, and even find teams to join. So that's another thing we've built, an easy way to find…

    2023 · thefullstack.network

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