Chatto

“it does not allow you to connect to your own server right away”

“it works pretty well so far, although the API is (by the author's own admission) not fully stable yet”

“Its actually well engineered (not vbibecoded), the devs are responsive”

“But looking at the code, I wouldn’t trust any of my personal information to it.”

“Still early in development, but self-hosted version is available and the dev has been responsive and nice to chat to.”

“I've played with Chatto a bit and it seems surprisingly solid overall thus far.”

“Looks like a cool project, thanks for the reference.”

“Seems to be an open-source Slack and Discord alternative with a nice UI.”

“The documentation looks very pleasing. But it doesn't seem to be free, too.”

“one of the easiest to spin up an instance of that I've seen thus far”

“first self-hostable, open source one I've seen that doesn't look like design is the very last item”

“It's a really cool project and clearly you put a lot of effort behind it.”

“easier to host and less complicated than Mattermost”

“Chatto is quite lightweight though; a fresh instance will run at tens of MB of RAM usage.”

“You can self-host Chatto with zero limitations without having to pay me.”

“commits to providing a strong PWA experience that also works great on mobile”

“it sounds like the direction you're going in with Chatto is precisely what I was envisioning”

“While I do need E2E and SSO making Chatto not suitable, it looks pretty cool.”

“it does also have first-class PWA support, so you can easily install the webapp as a mobile app on mobile devices. Works great on Android.”

“the protobuf based realtime endpoint should make it very easy to build bridges”

“one of the main things I like about Chatto is just how fast everything feels”

“I use the desktop version as my daily Chatto driver”

“Chatto just flies and Slack feels incredibly sluggish.”

“Having this as the frontend to a load of integrations (or even just internal chat) would be really interesting.”

“it already looks like it has most of the features”

“without significantly better marketing material it'll have a chance at becoming relevant”

“since you can self host it, you still get a lot more control over the data”

“Needs drop in voice rooms a la Discord or Slack's Huddle”

“We just want a performant chat with simple features.”

“I can guarantee it's a buggy, incoherent mess, same as every other vibe coded app I've ever tried”

“This is super cool. More options is always good.”

“appears to be simpler to setup and also has simpler licensing”

“I see nothing obvious here that solves the noise and irritation of Discord and Slack.”

“There's space for more than one self-hosted chat app in the world.”

“I like the idea of having one frontend for multiple servers instead of pushing hard on p2p or federation.”

“It’s designed to be extremely easy to self-host on your own infrastructure.”

“I'm confident this project will become successful very quickly.”

“this seems like perfect thing to have for your family and friends”

“feels much nicer to use than Slack, but as of now it's missing some of the more 'Enterprise' features”

“Looks really nice, thank you for open-sourcing.”