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Products that do what Macaron (Beta) does

Hyperlocal chat on Telegram (100m–1km)

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   Franz▲879

   Messenger for WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook, Slack & Hipchat

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   I made an app to use local AI as daily driver▲637

   Hi Hackers, Excited to share a macOS app I've been working on: https://recurse.chat/ for chatting with local AI. While it's amazing that you can run AI models locally quite easily these days (through llama.cpp / llamafile / ollama / llm CLI etc.), I missed feature complete chat interfaces. Tools like LMStudio are super powerful, but there's a learning curve to it. I'd like to hit a middleground of simplicity and customizability for advanced users. Here's what separates RecurseChat out from similar apps: - UX designed for you to use local AI as a daily driver.…

   2024 · recurse.chat

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   Chatfuel for Messenger▲432

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   A new era of messaging

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   Macaly▲637

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   Chatfuel▲401

   Create chatbots to engage with your audience on messengers

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   Serendipity Bot by Threado▲288

   Free community and newsletter match making bot

   2022

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   Telegram 3.0▲204

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   Jan▲334

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    Claude Code, meet Telegram.

    Feb 2026 · yottocode.com

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    Telegram 2.0 for Mac▲139

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