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24 alternatives to Open-source conversational platform and unified messaging APIs

Open Source Conversational platform to store, structure and utilize conversational data.

Airy is an open-source conversational platform that provides unified messaging APIs. Launched in 2021, it enables developers to integrate multiple messaging channels into a single system. The platform is designed for… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Open-source conversational platform and unified messaging APIs launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Airy▲158

    Open source conversational platform & unified messaging APIs

    2021 · web.airy.co · its alternatives →

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    Airchat▲848

    A social walkie-talkie

    2024 · air.chat · its alternatives →

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    Open-source live-chat, email support, omni-channel desk. An alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud etc. 🔥💬 - chatwoot/chatwoot

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Chatwoot▲329

    Chatwoot is an AI-powered, open-source customer support platform. Self-host or use our cloud to manage live chat, email, WhatsApp, and social conversations.

    2021 · chatwoot.com · its alternatives →

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    Discovery, chat extensions, and richer experiences

    2017 · facebook.com · its alternatives →

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    Business conversation platform integrated with messengers

    2022 · dashly.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, A few of our team members at Airbyte (and Joe, who killed it!) recently played with building our own internal support chat bot, using Airbyte, Langchain, Pinecone and OpenAI, that would answer any questions we ask when developing a new connector on Airbyte. As we prototyped it, we realized that it could be applied for many other use cases and sources of data, so... we created a tutorial that other community members can leverage [http://airbyte.com/tutorials/chat-with-your-data-using-opena...] and the Github repo to run it…

    2023 · airbyte.com · its alternatives →

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    Client library for Minimal Chat. Contribute to minimalchat/client development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Bots that work everywhere

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    I've been obsessed for the past ~year with the possibilities of talking to LLMs. I built a bunch of one-off prototypes, shared code on X, started a Meetup group in SF, and co-hosted a big hackathon. It turns out that there are a few low-level problems that everybody building conversational/real-time AI needs to solve on the way to building/shipping something that works well: low-latency media transport, echo cancellation, voice activity detection, phrase endpointing, pipelining data between models/services, handling voice interruptions, swapping out different…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Bring your team together

    2017 · blog.google · its alternatives →

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    Rowy▲414

    Airtable like simplicity with GCP's scalability

    2021 · rowy.io · its alternatives →

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    Turn content into conversations

    2019 · its alternatives →

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    Civilized discussion for your community, redesigned ✨

    2018 · blog.discourse.org · its alternatives →

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    Collaboration platform where teams work with AI together

    May 2026 · mantle.chat · its alternatives →

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    Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free.

    2014 · airtable.com · its alternatives →

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    Comradery▲291

    Threaded discussions and real-time chat for your community!

    2020 · comradery.com · its alternatives →

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    LyzrGPT▲162

    Private, secure & model-agnostic AI chat for enterprises

    Jan 2026 · lyzr.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, we've been working with OpenAI for the past few months on the new Realtime API. The goal is to give everyone access to the same stack that underpins Advanced Voice in the ChatGPT app. Under the hood it works like this: - A user's speech is captured by a LiveKit client SDK in the ChatGPT app - Their speech is streamed using WebRTC to OpenAI’s voice agent - The agent relays the speech prompt over websocket to GPT-4o - GPT-4o runs inference and streams speech packets (over websocket) back to the agent - The agent relays generated speech using WebRTC back to the user’s device The…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Buzz▲161

    Your people, your agents, your project — all in one place

    Jul 2026 · buzz.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Open-source live-chat, email support, omni-channel desk. An alternative to Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce Service Cloud etc. 🔥💬 - chatwoot/chatwoot

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Build rich application-to-user messaging

    2015 · its alternatives →

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