Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Hackers Chat
A new experiment in online communities
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hackers Chat launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2018 · boredhackers.com · its alternatives →
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An interactive chatbot widget for your website
2017 · collect.chat · its alternatives →
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GitHub is where people build software. More than 150 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 420 million projects.
2018 · spectrum.chat · its alternatives →
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ChatGPT canvas▲498OpenAI's new way to write & code with ChatGPT
2024 · openai.com · its alternatives →
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Foxchat▲275Best Intercom alternative for startups and indie hackers
Feb 2026 · foxchat.dev · its alternatives →
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#Startup Chat▲358The global startup community, on Slack
2014 · hashtagstartup.co · its alternatives →
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The Hacker News community in a private Slack chat.
2014 · hackerchat.co · its alternatives →
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The community-led no-code platform for customer engagement
2023 · tiledesk.com · its alternatives →
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Let's Chat▲323Like Slack, but opensource and self-hosted.
2015 · sdelements.github.io · its alternatives →
- 10HN
2012 · hncomments.nathancahill.com · its alternatives →
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Converse.js▲126A free and open-source chat client for your website
2014 · conversejs.org · its alternatives →
- 12CA
2011 · freeversation.com · its alternatives →
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Hey all I'm Asim. I'm an engineer who's been hacking on an open source project called Micro for the past eight years (https://micro.dev). In that time I've done a lot of things, all Dev related but ultimately most of my career was spent working on platforms for consumer products. After many attempts I've decided the path forward is to focus on building something that solves my own problem. Micro Chat is a solution to some of the social media problems I've been having. What I've been looking for most of my life is a community. A place to belong. I scoured the internet for that with…
2023 · micro.mu · its alternatives →
- 14WT
2011 · hackertalks.tv · its alternatives →
- 15HN
2023 · neontomo.com · its alternatives →
- 16HN
2012 · webchat.freenode.net · its alternatives →
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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 · its alternatives →
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Create a chat, copy the URL, paste it wherever you want. Perfect for those that would like to continue a discussion on a social network without having to sign up for anything. http://beta.mss.gs/#!/page/home
2012 · beta.mss.gs · its alternatives →
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2017 · hashtags.chat · its alternatives →
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Just a personal experiment to build my first custom version of ChatGPT :) I'm spending too much time on this site, so it might ocasionally save me some scrolling and reading. Far from perfect and I'll continue to finetune it. I might even feed it with some classification data for each post, such as: Post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38167604 Categories: ["Health, Tech Gadgets, AI"] Comment Perspectives: - 3 Medical Innovation Appreciation - 1 Technical Analysis - 1 Limitations Acknowledgment Edit: Looks like OpenAI is having outages today and custom GPTs are only…
2023 · chat.openai.com · its alternatives →
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Decentralized anonymous blockchain messenger. Crypto In-Chat
2020 · adamant.im · its alternatives →
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