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Let's Chat▲321
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2
Slack Chats▲362
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3
Hey.Cafe▲177
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4
Hello for iOS▲125
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5
Hey.Café 2.0▲122
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6
#Startup Chat▲357
The global startup community, on Slack
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Hey for Slack▲133
Make your community feel welcomed
2022
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HubYard 2▲92
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HumHub▲109
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Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs▲351
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HEY Bracelet▲130
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DiggBot for Slack▲140
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2016
13
Heymoji▲110
Slack reactions for any website
2016
14
Mighty Networks for Slack▲164
Launch an online community you monitor and manage from Slack
2016
15
Hello▲85
A 100% peer-to-peer video chat
2018
16
Slackin▲293
Create your own public Slack chat community
2015
17
Discourse▲287
A platform for community discussion. Free, open and simple.
2015
18
Gitter▲131
free public chat rooms for open source projects on GitHub
2014
19
Converse.js▲126
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2014
20
SpareMin▲96
Making conversations possible again
2016
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Orange Forum – Web 1.0 style forum written in Go▲226
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Public▲205
Group chats. Great conversations. 💬
2016
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Rocket.Chat▲152
Your own open source Slack-like chat
2015
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Buzz▲161
Your people, your agents, your project — all in one place
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