Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Sqwok – A social chat alternative to Twitter and Reddit
I previously did a Show HN late Dec 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25470672 That was a great experience and in the past year I continued to develop the site to bring it to a level of stability and maturity that I felt necessary for it to have a chance to succeed. Sqwok is all about answering the question: Can we have better open conversations on the internet? I wasn’t satisfied with the existing means of discussing topics such as culture, history, politics, and technology through threaded comments, and was simultaneously impressed with Slack bringing the IRC…
Sqwok is a chat-based social platform designed as an alternative to Twitter and Reddit for open conversations. It uses a Slack-like interface rather than threaded comments, enabling users to discuss topics including… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Sqwok – A social chat alternative to Twitter and Reddit launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Chatwoot▲329Chatwoot 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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Comradery▲291Threaded discussions and real-time chat for your community!
2020 · comradery.com · its alternatives →
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Hey guys, I made a post about this about a week ago and was told to create a Show HN post. So here we are! Squabblr is a hybrid that takes Twitter style posting and combines it with Reddit style commenting. It came up from a personal want where I liked using Twitter to see what people I'm interested in are up to, but found that the reply system left a lot to be desired. It's very hard to have or follow conversations with their UI. While Reddit provided a great commenting system but didn't support following people very well (or had much usage of it at all). So I decided to create Squabblr.…
2023 · squabblr.co · its alternatives →
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I’ve been messing around with Bluesky for a while, and one thing I really missed was a proper way to browse discussions in a structured, Reddit-like way specially myself being daily reddit user. So, I ended up building a Reddit-like client for Bluesky that scratches that itch: Threadsky.app It pulls in trending topics, lets you explore conversations with a threaded view (so no more getting lost in replies), and even allows users to create channels with customizations, basically, like subreddits but on Bluesky. That said, this is still pretty barebones, and there’s a lot to improve. I really…
2025 · threadsky.app · its alternatives →
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squabbles▲247A new kind of social media, a community powered platform
2023 · squabbles.io · 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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Chatmunk▲286Experience topics & events in real-time channels for Twitter
2016 · bj8839.com · its alternatives →
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A GNU Social-compatible microblogging server. Contribute to Gargron/mastodon development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I created a pet project to see if it is of use and interesting to people. The idea is on-demand real-time chat rooms for trending topics and for personal use. You can go to the main page at www.urshoutbox.com to create your own room then share it across your social networks/email, etc. I created a hacker news specific "shoutbox" at http://www.urshoutbox.com/bLmYAL/hacker-news . If nobody is in there, please be patient and (I hope) people will join soon to start talking. The idea is to have trending topics on facebook/twitter/etc and have chat rooms to get…
2014 · urshoutbox.com · 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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A new app for Slack that uses ChatGPT
2023 · salesforce.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · squall.io · its alternatives →
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Gitter▲131free public chat rooms for open source projects on GitHub
2014 · gitter.im · its alternatives →
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2017 · hashtags.chat · its alternatives →
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SoAwkward▲88Real-time awkward moments (powered by Twitter)
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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2023 · chatwoot.ai · its alternatives →
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