Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Teamates.io – Random video chats for professionals
Hello HN, I built Teamates.io[0] - a place for professionals to have small coffee chats with a random partner right now. Think of it like a virtual coffeeshop where you can chat with strangers while you're taking a little break. It's in open beta and you can try using it right now. Please be nice and professional to each other :) I noticed over the course of pandemic I missed random coffee chats with my coworkers and random chats with strangers. I think it's important to have these unplanned conversations. I would really appreciate the feedback from you all, since I believe it's a pretty…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Teamates.io – Random video chats for professionals launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Introduce teammates 1v1, spark conversations in Slack, Teams
2023 · springworks.in · its alternatives →
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Teamhub.com▲237Hey HN, We've just launched our team collaboration platform where we're bringing together all the important tools under one app. We've been frustrated in the past with tools which had a huge disconnect between projects and chat. It always inevitably leads to teams using external chat apps for "project management" and then abandoning the main tools altogether. We're creating tools we hope teams will stick with. Super integrated Chat. Convert comments to tasks and have them auto added to project boards. Automations to help massively reduce burden on the team. Workflows, Time-Off and so much…
2024 · teamhub.com · its alternatives →
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Bringing likeminded people together for 1:1 video chats
2023 · cafesocial.io · its alternatives →
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2018 · coffeechat.app · its alternatives →
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Glue▲291Glue is team chat optimized for AI. Today we're releasing support for MCP tools right in your Glue team conversations. Just like MCP in Cursor or Windsurf, you can now use any tool in a private AI chat or any Glue team thread while pulling in its full context to help. Using team chat context for MCP is kind of game-changing, letting you do anything from creating a calendar event or Linear issue to looking up data from an internal system. Our team has been using MCP tools as part of core team workflows for a few weeks now, and it's fantastic. We're particularly fans of remote-hosted MCP…
2025 · glue.ai · its alternatives →
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Introduce teammates, break the ice, & socialize inside Slack
2021 · springworks.in · its alternatives →
- 7FI
This is something fun I’ve been hacking on recently: ridiculously simple group chat. Go to http://faces.io and then get your friends to do the same. That’s it! :-D Currently works best in Chrome. It’s definitely beta status at best. Audio can get weird—be ready to mute. ;-) Let me know what you think!
2014 · its alternatives →
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Buzz▲161Your people, your agents, your project — all in one place
Jul 2026 · buzz.xyz · its alternatives →
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RandomRetros▲137Simple tool for exploring ways to improve your teamwork
2019 · randomretros.com · its alternatives →
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Create a chat, copy the URL, paste it wherever you want. Perfect for those that would like to continue a discussion on a social network without having to sign up for anything. http://beta.mss.gs/#!/page/home
2012 · beta.mss.gs · its alternatives →
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Slack-integrated coffee subscription for teams
2017 · crema.co · its alternatives →
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vive▲72A live video chat app. But more than that, its a community.
2014 · ppkbppa.pacitankab.go.id · its alternatives →
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Hey there! I realized I was compiling a list of coffee shops with highly curated reviews in my personal notes: chair comfort, Wi-Fi networks and passwords, internet speed, noise level, bathroom cleanliness, etc... It worked fine for me, but when I wanted to share my list to some friends I realized the underlying problem. So I created Workffee for two reasons: 1. To allow me to save my reviews in a more convenient way and share them. 2. To connect with others who are interested in this information, and who knows, maybe share a coffee and a work session together eventually. I hope you like my…
2024 · workffee.com · its alternatives →
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URL -> Http://www.teamchat.me (landing page only works for desktop/pc for now) I'm doing another relaunch soon of this group chat app I've been working on in the past year. I've learned a lot after each launch and since I'm not getting any traffic why not just keep testing different methods until I get it right? Art! Science! Anyways let me know what you think. If you're working in remote/distributed teams or are interested in using an app that streamlines your internal business communication please let me know I would love to talk to you one on one and get an idea of the challenges you…
2013 · its alternatives →
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I'm running several voice-only virtual coffee events on the Discord server in the URL, only for today. The rules are pretty simple: 1. Wait for the "event" to start (see times at the end) 2. If there are no tables with 1 participant, join any one. 3. If there is a table with 1 participant, join that one. 4. When the event ends, all the voice channels are deleted and you have to wait till the next event starts. I initially wanted to build my own web app but then I realised it would be so much easier to just leverage Discord's infrastructure. I also built a bot in a couple hundred lines of Go…
2023 · discord.com · its alternatives →
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I always find myself frustrated by how many steps I have to take to video chat with someone online. There's always too much software to download and install, and too many accounts to remember. The high-end, high-price Cisco conferencing systems I've used are especially fragile. So I built Vidless in a weekend for myself, and I hope you find it useful too. Just create a room and share the link, and you'll be chatting in seconds. You can invite several people (I haven't really tested a max yet), and chats on Vidless are always private. Enjoy!
2012 · vidless.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · teamchat.net · 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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Link to test: http://getmeetingsapp.com Basically it is a web-based chat application, with private and public rooms and real-time file sharing. It is currently in a half-arsed situation so needs lot of work but wanted to get some feedback from you. Thanks PS. I created a public room for feature requests, just in case: http://getmeetingsapp.com/rooms/4e7f64ea17ade37b71000002
2011 · getmeetingsapp.com · its alternatives →
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Primary link: http://hackerscoffee.org I thought Coder’s Coffee (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4010355) was a great idea but disagreed with a few aspects of its execution (registration solely via linkedin, iOS app only, manual approval process, brittle: crashed every time I used it on my phone). I noticed the app had stopped working entirely last week, and went to the site (http://www.coderscoffee.com) to discover that the project seems to be no more. I re-implemented the concept, minus my grievances, in about 20 free hours I had last week (and also took the opportunity to make a…
2013 · hackerscoffee.org · its alternatives →
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