Growth · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to KickChat
Bringing communities together through blogging!
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. KickChat launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Start conversations on your site. Keep them going on social.
2018 · buffer.com · its alternatives →
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Smallchat Beta▲372Slack integration for chatting with visitors to your website
2017 · small.chat · its alternatives →
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Create a Messenger bot to engage your audience. No coding!
2016 · manychat.com · its alternatives →
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With social media and now AI, its important to keep the indie web alive. There are many people who write frequently. Blogosphere tries to highlight them by fetching the recent posts from personal blogs across many categories. There are two versions: Minimal (HN-inspired, fast, static): https://text.blogosphere.app/ Non-minimal: https://blogosphere.app/ If you don't find your blog (or your favorite ones), please add them. I will review and approve it.
Apr 2026 · text.blogosphere.app · its alternatives →
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Smallchat 2.0▲202Slack app for chatting with visitors to your website.
2018 · small.chat · its alternatives →
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Front Chat▲291The simplest way for teams to manage website chat
2017 · front.com · its alternatives →
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Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/hnblogs/ Old Reddit Link: https://old.reddit.com/r/hnblogs/ Hi HN, Inspired by this post earlier this week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23237559, I thought we could make blog discovery easier by having a place to find interesting, unusual, niche, or really any kind of non-marketing blogs that are posted by the people that write them. There are a ton of interesting blogs on the web, probably more than there were when the web was new, but even though there's more they're a smaller…
2020 · its alternatives →
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Blogbuster ▲313Launch a blog on your domain in minutes & free
2025 · blogbuster.so · its alternatives →
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Build your community in the fastest way ever
2020 · everchat.co · its alternatives →
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Hey all, I’ve made this bot, it fetches every story that enters the HN Top 10, summarizes it with AI to a tweet-sized textlog note and publishes it. textlog.cc offers these endpoints as RSS/Atom through textlog.cc/u/hn10.rss and textlog.cc/u/hn10.atom so you can subscribe easily. Enjoy!
Aug 2026 · textlog.cc · its alternatives →
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Move chats to Slack and talk to clients wherever you want
2022 · livechat.com · its alternatives →
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You simply: 1. Connect your device. 2. Create a top-level `handwritten.blog` folder. 3. Every new notebook in that folder becomes a draft on https://handwritten.blog/ I hope this eventually obviates the need to look at the ugly upload interface you have to use to now upload your writing.
Jul 2026 · handwritten.blog · its alternatives →
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Chat with your customers on Facebook and Twitter via Slack!
2017 · get.slaask.com · its alternatives →
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Launch an online community you monitor and manage from Slack
2016 · new.mn.co · its alternatives →
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Everything you need to ace your customer engagement game
2018 · freshworks.com · its alternatives →
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