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24 alternatives to I built an intercom for my 6 yo to keep us connected during quarantine
Chordata is an intercom system designed for families to stay connected during isolation. Created as a practical solution during quarantine, it allows parents and young children to communicate across different rooms or… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I built an intercom for my 6 yo to keep us connected during quarantine launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Switchboard▲406Turn your phone into a handsfree intercom
2018 · switchboard.audio · its alternatives →
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Have live conversations with users inside your apps
2015 · fin.ai · its alternatives →
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Hi HN community, I’m Zach, founder and CEO of Warp, and am excited to show you Warp, a fast Rust-based terminal that’s easy to use and built for teams. As of today, Warp is in public beta and any Mac user can download it. It works with bash, zsh, and fish. The terminal’s teletype-like interface has made it hard for the CLI to thrive. After 20 years of programming, I still find it hard to copy a command’s output; I always forget how to use `tar`; and I always have to relearn how to move my cursor. To fix fundamental accessibility issues, I believe we need to start innovating on the terminal,…
2022 · warp.dev · its alternatives →
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Notify me▲72Integrate Intercom and Slack for the most valuable use cases
2023 · notifymeintercom.netlify.app · its alternatives →
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Wire▲301Great conversations. Built for mobile, tablets, & desktop.
2014 · wire.com · its alternatives →
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Intercom▲464Communicate personally with every single customer.
2013 · intercom.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, As a weekend project, I hacked together a physical phone, a Raspberry Pi running Asterisk and Twilio, to let toddlers safely make international calls. I’ve documented the setup in this write-up and published the code + Ansible playbooks on GitHub so others can replicate it. I built this so kids of expats can easily stay in touch with family on other continents. Would love feedback from anyone who’s worked on something similar or tries building this themselves! writeup: https://wip.tf/posts/telefonefix-building-babys-first-intern... github repos: -…
2025 · wip.tf · its alternatives →
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The next-generation social coding platform.
2025 · blog.tangled.sh · its alternatives →
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Intercom Educate▲485What a knowledge base should be–personal and intelligent
2016 · intercom.com · its alternatives →
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A bold aesthetic. Simplified navigation. Faster workflows.
2018 · intercom.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Today we’re launching PowerSync, a Postgres<>SQLite bi-directional sync engine that enables an offline-first app architecture. It currently supports Flutter, React Native and web (JavaScript) using Wasm SQLite in the browser, with more client SDKs on the way. Conrad and I (Ralf) have been working on our sync engine since 2009, originally as part of a full-stack app platform. That version of the system is still used in production worldwide and we’ve learnt a lot from its use cases and scaling. About a year ago we started on spinning off PowerSync as a standalone product that is…
2023 · powersync.com · its alternatives →
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I'm building a video conferencing app designed to facilitate better remote piano lessons. My hope is to solve a lot of the challenges piano tutors and new students deal with when taking lessons through Skype/Zoom. It leverages WebRTC's data transmission to send media, MIDI state, and (eventually) send sheet music files and other musical data. I'm surprised with how well the MVP has worked and would love to hear any feedback or suggestions!
2024 · keyboardconnect.com · its alternatives →
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Join this audio room
2021 · jam.systems · its alternatives →
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Cosyra▲203Cosyra is a mobile coding terminal for iPhone and Android. Run Claude Code or Codex CLI on phone from a cloud Ubuntu terminal without managing your own VPS.
Apr 2026 · cosyra.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, I've been hacking on this idea with a friend as we've been using chatgpt and other AI tools in our day to day work and find ourselves copy/pasting to each other frequently. We often share chatgpt links with each other, but it's been frustrating that they are read-only and we can't pickup the conversation or both talk to an LLM with shared context. We built a shared chatroom to explore what it'd be like to talk with multiple LLMs and humans in the same chat, and so far it feels pretty cool, but we're curious if anyone else would find it useful as well. Right now you can: -…
2025 · chord.chat · its alternatives →
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Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Webrtc SDK is for developers to install and customize realtime communication between devices and enable secure streaming of video, audio to Kinesis Video Streams. - awslabs/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-webrtc-sdk-c
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · pagernation.com · its alternatives →
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Connect Intercom to Telegram, LINE, Viber, Twilio, and more
2019 · octopods.io · its alternatives →
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