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24 alternatives to Launching a Psychedelic Chat Community

A powerful and intriguing experience inspired me to create a Slack community for Psychedelic researchers, therapists, shamans and the curious. Check it out here: http://psychedelicchat.com Looking for feedback and ideas to help make it a highly collaborative, engaging and supportive community.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Launching a Psychedelic Chat Community launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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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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    The Designer News community in a private Slack chat.

    2014 · designerchat.co · its alternatives →

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    Find psychedelic coaches near you.

    Jun 2026 · tripsitter.cc · its alternatives →

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    LSD, ecstasy, and the power to heal

    2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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    An open library of psychedelics and consciousness research. Plain-language summaries with study design and sample size, free to read.

    Aug 2026 · consciousnesslibrary.org · its alternatives →

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    Hey everyone! I built a little side project called OpenQuest over the last three weeks, and I'm looking for some feedback to see if it's worth taking further. The idea is simple: it's a place to create a chat room where you can connect with people (a maximum of 8) who have the same goal as you, for a short time (7 days for now). Think of it as a way to stay motivated, hold each other accountable, or simply work together with new people on something specific. Some examples can be: - Following a programming course - Reading a book - Getting back to the gym - Cleaning up your home - Shopping…

    2024 · openquest.app · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, For years I’ve missed the feeling of an always-on chatroom without the silos and social overhead of Discord. So I built Together: a single-room, no-signup group chat that you join with one click. No channels, no rules (yet), no onboarding flow. Everyone lands in the same place and can start talking in under a second. Why I made it - Forums and blog comments are great but slow; Discord/Slack feel heavy for casual drop-ins if you aren’t already a member of a community. - I wanted the simplest possible space where ~100 people could idle, share shower thoughts, and keep the…

    2025 · together.lol · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I’m still in college and new to the startup world, but here is my first shot at a side project: Milburn, an integrated therapy+journal tool(https://milburn.vercel.app/). I built Milburn bc every mental health tool I could find was missing something: the therapy apps didn’t have voice/memory/too expensive, and the journal apps were always a PITA to sync with therapy. We trained the chatbot’s model on specific therapy modalities(I personally need CBT sessions, but we also have others like DBT), and then created a prompted journal, added a feedback loop, voice…

    2024 · milburn.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Psychedelic chatbot that helps you answering all questions!

    2024 · trippy.chat · its alternatives →

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    Learn about the health benefits of natural psychedelics

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

  11. 11IM

    Hi HN, I made a metabolic AI coach to help people with their weight loss and metabolic challenges. In testing with about a dozen people, they have been impressed with how well it figures things out and its surprising insights. I'm surprised, too, at how good it gets compared to typical responses people would ask vanilla chatbots and how positively people are responding to it. https://coach.patchworkfood.com/ Happy to hear feedback or ideas!

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Get inspired with thoughts provided by the famous subreddit.

    2017 · joaoalmeida.me · its alternatives →

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    Some of my best ideas were getting lost inside long ChatGPT conversations. I built this tool to turn raw chats into clean, readable posts that can be shared publicly and indexed, without rewriting everything by hand. It’s meant for people who think a lot but don’t enjoy long-form writing, and want their ideas to compound instead of disappearing in chat logs. Happy to answer questions about how it works or why I built it.

    Jan 2026 · thinkinpublic.app · its alternatives →

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    Hello everyone, I doubt this would be relevant to the kind of person who uses HN, but I thought I could share for some feedback. I built this site because there is a whole world of people who believe in new age spirituality and I am very much one of them. It is a site where you get the users gender their goals and their images and use AI and psychology to generate images of them in the process of achieving their goals. I am so deeply struggling with how to get this highly on Google. I don't even know if that is important anymore. What are your suggestions with distribution and getting in…

    2025 · visionboardsai.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, A buddy and I have been working on a side project in the online community space in our free time over the past few years. Our platform is a sort of Discord/Reddit/Patreon hybrid. Decided to do a soft launch today in light of all the recent Reddit news. Community features: 1. Customizable discussion boards. Community owners can setup threaded discussion boards for different topics related to their niche. Say a user creates a community for a niche like "Cars", under that community they could create different discussion boards for sub categories like "Car-mods", "Car-photos",…

    2023 · sociables.com · its alternatives →

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    I built an app that matches users to exclusive Discord communities based on a 25-question personality quiz. Inspired by HEXACO but with a novel fuzzy-clustering twist, it creates a "harmony genome" to gate access, ensuring tight-knit tribes (e.g., wellness or creative niches). Think Reddit but curated via psych. Launched to test the idea—feedback on algo, niches, or scaling?

    2025 · tgc.fly.dev · its alternatives →

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    If you have developer documentation and want to boost your community with AI this is for you! Just pull in the base url of the site add some customization and get a sharable link for your chat, link it anywhere you want. I saw this trend in some places like gcp with Gemini, or Langchain or Supabase ask ai, but they're all custom-implemented solutions, not everyone wants to advocate developer resources to create the rag, deploy it and maintain it, you just want devs to build with your stuff, the more they can do the better, the quicker the better, and if they get a smooth experience while…

    2024 · explainit.mzslabs.com · its alternatives →

  19. 19IM

    Hi HN ! I've struggled with anxiety for most of my life. But I was lucky to have a supporting family and friends. Not everyone has this chance. So I made Wiro Talk to help strangers pair up and check on each other. Check it out and tell me what you think. It's an mvp so yes it's using discord at the moment.

    2023 · wirotalk.com · its alternatives →

  20. 20OA

    Hey HN! I'm trying to create a community of people that are willing to contribute to the OpenDolphin project. The goal of the project is to build an Open Source _centralized_ social network that would ideally compete with Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. The main difference between the well established social and this one would be that it is going to be built and managed in the public, in the most transparent way possible. Features will be implemented and requested by the community - and generally speaking everything would be community-centric. If the project takes off, this might become one…

    2022 · about.opendolphin.social · its alternatives →

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    Hi guys! I did a hackathon this weekend for leapml.dev and built out a site that lets you generate images with stable diffusion in the browser: https://aiart.fm Each image gets tagged and stored in a database so you can go back and look at what prompts, seeds, step, models people have used to make nice images. There is also a rudeimntary voting system and the homepage is sorted by highest rated. But the most exciting bit is I added my own custom fine tuned model to it last night that I'm calling "Psychedelia". All of the top images one the homepage are using this model. It seems to…

    2023 · aiart.fm · its alternatives →

  22. 22IB

    Hi HN, I have been working on a new tool that was inspired by Vannevar Bush's memex and Luhmann's Zettelkasten. Having been a long time user of different tools, I got to the point where I decided to build my own. For the longest time I have been looking for something that puts association first, works as fast as the mind, and allows you to stay in flow state. Making building a second mind, playful and rewarding. If anyone is interested, I have added the link below. At this point I am slowly letting on the first users, and hoping to gather as much feedback as possible. The explore link on the…

    2020 · its alternatives →

  23. 23IF

    Hello there! I hope you're doing well today! I wanted to share something with you. Recently I was on the hunt for the best way to journal daily. Well, I had this idea - what if I could feed all my daily entries to an AI (ChatGPT), and create a friendly, supportive character like Socrates or Simon Sinek? This way, I could ask any questions about my life and mental health, and get some amazing advice on how to improve myself! The results have been absolutely mind-blowing ! I even made a short GIF to show you how it works - check it out! - https://gifyu.com/image/SdHLH I've…

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, First time posting here. Go easy on me, haha. I made Focus with strangers, a site where you can do pomodoros alongside some random people online for a hit of social pressure. There's a simple todo list built in, and you can chat (or 'shout' as I like to call it) with other participants during the break. If you don't like the idea of interacting with randoms, you can send a link and work with your friends as well. No logins/accounts, free to use. Made using elixir + phoenix, hosted on fly. Any feedback would be welcome!

    Oct 2025 · focuswithstrangers.com · its alternatives →

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