Buzz
Buzz delivers the first production workspace where humans and AI agents operate as cryptographically equal team members on a self-hosted Nostr relay. The Rust-based backend stores every message, code patch, CI result, review comment, and workflow step as a signed Nostr event in a unified PostgreSQL-backed event log with Redis pub/sub for real-time presence and S3/MinIO for media storage. The integrated Git forge implements NIP-34, turning feature branches into dedicated channels where patches, reviews, and merge decisions live alongside the discussion that produced them — eliminating the split between chat tools and code hosts. Through the open Agent Client Protocol, Buzz natively supports Goose, Anthropic Claude Code, and OpenAI Codex as first-class channel members with scoped permissions, their own audit trails, and the ability to create patches, run workflows, and orchestrate multi-step automations via YAML-defined triggers including message events, reactions, schedules, and webhooks. The Tauri-based desktop client runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux, while buzz-cli provides agent-first JSON I/O for headless automation. Deploy via Docker Compose with the production bundle in deploy/compose/, Railway one-click, or build from source requiring Rust 1.88+, Node 24+, and pnpm. Multi-community mode scopes tenant data by domain with NIP-42 Schnorr authentication, rate limiting, and hash-chain audit logging. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.
Mattermost
Teams that cannot send messages through someone else's cloud run Mattermost - the open-core, self-hosted alternative to Slack. It provides public and private channels, threaded discussions, unlimited search history, file sharing with previews, one-to-one audio calls, and screen sharing, with desktop clients for Windows, macOS, and Linux plus iOS and Android apps. Messages support full Markdown, which suits engineering conversations with code blocks and logs. Playbooks turn repeatable processes such as incident response and release management into checklist-driven workflows with automated triggers and retrospectives. Integration is a core strength: prebuilt connectors for GitHub, GitLab, Jira, ServiceNow, and PagerDuty, plus webhooks, slash commands, bots, a REST API, and a plugin marketplace with 700+ entries - together making it a working surface for ChatOps rather than just a chat room. Playbooks add keyword and event triggers, task assignment, status broadcasting, and post-incident retrospectives, so operational knowledge is not trapped in individuals' heads. The server is a single Go binary backed by PostgreSQL, with React clients, released monthly under MIT license and deployable fully air-gapped - which is why governments and defense organizations run it inside closed networks, and why the same control applies to any team with confidentiality requirements. The compiled Team Edition is free for unlimited users with no message history cutoff, so costs stay flat as the team grows.
Macro
Macro merges email, team chat, collaborative documents, task management, CRM, and video calls into one keyboard-driven application where AI agents operate across the entire workspace with shared team memory, replacing the Slack plus Notion plus Linear plus Superhuman plus HubSpot stack with a single deployment. The email module provides a multi-account unified inbox with keyboard shortcuts, shared team inboxes, and Gmail integration. Team messaging offers channels and direct messages designed for technical discussions with threaded conversations. The task system draws from Linear with board and list views tightly integrated with channels, email threads, and AI agents. Real-time collaborative documents use CRDT synchronization via Loro for conflict-free editing with Markdown-native formatting and @mention linking. A 2D canvas board embeds @links to tasks, files, and emails for visual project planning. AI agents access unified team-level memory spanning all workspace modules, taking autonomous actions across email, chat, tasks, and documents through MCP-compatible tool interfaces. Video calls include recording, transcription, and automatic logging to team memory. The CRM module tracks customers and contacts with custom properties, email synchronization, and data enrichment. Eighty-plus Rust microservices on the Axum framework handle backend operations while a SolidJS static SPA delivers the frontend with instant search and real-time collaboration. Docker Compose deployment provisions the complete service stack with PostgreSQL, Redis, OpenSearch, and FusionAuth authentication. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.
Rocket.Chat
Blast off into productivity space with Rocket.Chat SIX, the ultimate team collaboration cosmos! Imagine a place where your messages, tasks, and projects all live in harmony, orbiting around your team's efficiency like a well-organized galaxy. This isn't just any old chat platform; it's a customizable universe where you're the master of your data domain, with the power to tweak, integrate, and innovate to your heart's content. Ready to provide stellar customer service? Engage with your clients in a way that's so contextually on-point, they'll feel like you're mind-reading across the cosmos. Plus, with a chat engine that's like a gravitational pull for user engagement, your app or website will become the center of your users' universe. And for the security-conscious space cadets, fear not! Rocket.Chat SIX is locked down tighter than a spaceship hatch, with end-to-end encryption and a buffet of deployment options to satisfy your security appetite. All this, hosted on RepoCloud, where the cost is as lightweight as zero-gravity. So why settle for a terrestrial tool when you can have a celestial experience? Rocket.Chat SIX: because your team deserves to collaborate in a universe that's light-years ahead!
Huly
With 27,000 GitHub stars and 349 releases shipping multiple times per week, Huly replaces four separate SaaS subscriptions — Linear for issue tracking, Notion for documents, Slack for team chat, and Motion for time-blocking — with a single self-hosted platform that charges nothing per seat. The issue tracker provides projects, sprints, roadmaps, custom workflows, and Kanban views with bi-directional GitHub and GitLab synchronization that keeps issues and pull requests in lockstep across both systems. Collaborative documents use CRDT-based real-time editing for wikis, meeting notes, and technical specs with nested page hierarchies and rich embedding. Team messaging delivers channels, direct messages, threaded conversations, reactions, and pinned messages in a Slack-equivalent interface that lives alongside your project context. The time-blocking planner schedules tasks into calendar slots with drag-and-drop, integrating directly with your issue backlog so nothing falls through cracks. A virtual office module provides audio and video rooms for standups and pair programming with external guest access. HR features handle team management, office hours, and PTO tracking. The architecture runs 30+ microservices on CockroachDB for ACID-compliant storage, Elasticsearch for full-text search, MinIO for file attachments, and Redpanda for event streaming. Desktop apps ship for macOS, Windows, and Linux alongside mobile apps for iOS and Android. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. EPL-2.0 licensed.
MindRoom
Your team's group chat could have a colleague who has read every email, ticket, and document, remembers all of it, and answers in seconds; MindRoom puts AI agents like that into your chat rooms as full participants. Each agent is a real user on the open Matrix protocol, so you talk to it in MindRoom Chat on web or mobile, in any other Matrix client, or through bridges in Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, and Discord. Give every agent its own model: a local model for private rooms, a frontier model for hard coding problems, and switch per room or thread whenever the work changes. Agents connect to more than 100 tools, including Gmail, calendars, GitHub, Google Drive, Home Assistant, and any MCP server, and they search your own documents and knowledge bases for answers with sources. Memory persists across conversations and platforms, so an agent remembers people, preferences, and project context months later and can turn repeated work into reusable skills. Before an agent sends an email or runs a command, an approval card shows exactly what will happen; you tap once to allow it, and sandboxed workers keep executed code away from your credentials. Schedule morning briefings, silent inbox checks, and recurring digests in plain language, or wake an agent from any other system with a single HTTP request. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.
Zulip
Used by the Rust language community, NASA, Dropbox, and thousands of organizations worldwide with over 25,600 GitHub stars and 1,500+ contributors, Zulip is the only modern team chat app designed from the ground up for both real-time and asynchronous communication through its unique topic-based threading model where every message belongs to a named topic within a channel. This eliminates the context collapse of linear chat by letting teams follow specific conversations without scrolling through unrelated messages, resume threads days later without losing context, and catch up on missed discussions at per-topic granularity. Server 12.0 introduced end-to-end encryption for mobile push notifications, AI-powered search ranking, channel folders for workspace organization, and expanded video conferencing with Jitsi, BigBlueButton, and Zoom integration. Over 100 native integrations connect GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Sentry, PagerDuty, Travis CI, Redmine, dbt, Nextcloud, and n8n with bidirectional notifications, while LLM-driven agents access web-public channels via a standard llms.txt interface. Full-text search covers unlimited message history across all plans, code blocks render with syntax highlighting for 250+ languages, and LaTeX math expressions display inline. The REST API with typed Python and JavaScript SDKs enables custom bots, webhook integrations, and programmatic administration. Import tools migrate entire workspaces from Slack, Microsoft Teams, Mattermost, and Rocket.Chat. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.
Sharkord
On game night Sharkord carries voice, webcams, and screen sharing, and on Monday morning it carries the team's threaded chat, all from one server you control. For the gaming crowd, voice rooms offer noise suppression, echo cancellation, webcams up to 2160p, and screen sharing in VP8, VP9, H264, or AV1, with optional simulcast layers for slow viewers. An experimental Bridge app keeps push-to-talk and mute hotkeys working with a game in focus, and plugins add a music bot or a soundboard. For a family group, invite links can carry a role, a use limit, and an expiry, and replies, reactions, custom emoji, pins, and direct messages keep conversation casual, with uploads up to 2 GB each. For a small team, text channels sit in categories with threads, mentions, and search, roles stack with per-channel permissions for private rooms, and OpenID Connect sign-in works with Authentik, Keycloak, Zitadel, Entra ID, or Google Workspace. Admins cap storage per user or role and can sign upload URLs. There is no premium tier, no member cap, no ads, and no tracking, and a built-in marketplace installs plugins in one click. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.
Tailchat
Think of it as a team messaging platform where every feature beyond core chat is a plugin you can install or remove, inspired by VS Code's extension model but applied to real-time communication. The Moleculer microservice backend scales horizontally across nodes while Socket.io delivers instant message synchronization with text, images, files, mentions, reactions, and rich Markdown formatting. Available plugins provide LiveKit video conferencing, collaborative drawing boards, task management panels, end-to-end encryption, custom themes, and third-party push notification reception without touching core code. Groups use a two-level space system with customizable panel layouts arranged through drag-and-drop, while role-based access control enforces fine-grained permissions across the organization. The Open Platform exposes OAuth for single sign-on across connected applications and a Bot API enabling bidirectional message processing between Tailchat and external services via HTTP requests. Multi-platform clients cover web, Electron desktop with screenshot capabilities, and mobile apps with native push. Docker Compose deployment bundles MongoDB for persistence, Redis for caching and transport, and MinIO for S3-compatible file storage. Deploy on RepoCloud with a dedicated VPS for persistent team infrastructure under the Apache 2.0 license.
Bytedesk
Support teams handling website live chat, email queues, and social messaging channels gain a unified, AI-assisted helpdesk in Bytedesk. Incoming conversations from web widgets, mobile SDKs, WhatsApp, WeChat, and email flow into a single agent workbench equipped with skill-group routing, VIP priority rules, and automatic human handoff. Customer-facing AI agents connect to Ollama, DeepSeek, OpenAI, Qwen, and Zhipu models to answer recurring inquiries using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) over internal knowledge bases and FAQ libraries, complete with function calling and Model Context Protocol (MCP) tool execution. Complex escalations convert into SLA-tracked tickets with custom approval workflows, or transition directly into browser-based WebRTC video calls, screen sharing sessions, and FreeSwitch voice call center queues. Supervisors track real-time queue depth, bot resolution rates, token usage, automated AI quality scores, and customer satisfaction surveys from the analytics dashboard. Native client SDKs for Web, iOS, Android, Flutter, UniApp, WordPress, and WooCommerce make embedding customizable chat widgets straightforward across any storefront. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.
Element
Matrix's flagship client, built by the protocol's creators: Element brings the decentralized open standard for real-time communication to web, desktop, iOS, and Android. Paired with a Matrix homeserver, it delivers Slack-quality team messaging where you own every message, file, encryption key, and byte of metadata. End-to-end encryption is on by default, built on Olm and Megolm - the Double Ratchet algorithm family Signal popularized, extended for large-room scalability and publicly audited by NCC Group. Messages encrypt per-device with cross-signed device verification, so even a compromised server yields nothing readable. Federation is the defining capability: like email, users on different homeservers converse seamlessly, and 30+ bridges connect Matrix rooms to Slack, Discord, WhatsApp, and Telegram, so moving to sovereign infrastructure doesn't sever contact with anyone. Rooms support threads, reactions, file sharing, and voice and video calls via Element Call. The result is digital sovereignty chosen by governments and enterprises across Europe: your data sits on your server in your jurisdiction, portable to any other Matrix host because the protocol is an open standard. Apache-2.0 licensed, with no per-user fees at any scale.
ejabberd
A single ejabberd node carries chat, device telemetry, voice calls, and federated messaging at once, because the same Erlang server speaks XMPP, MQTT, SIP, and Matrix over one authentication, storage, and clustering layer. Users get standards-based instant messaging with group chats, message archives, publish-subscribe, message carbons, push notifications, and OMEMO encryption, and your server federates with the global XMPP network out of the box. Devices publish and subscribe through the built-in MQTT broker on TCP or WebSocket transports, sharing accounts and access rules with your chat users instead of needing a second broker. Voice and video calls route through the integrated SIP gateway and STUN/TURN support, so WebRTC clients get signalling and media relay from the same deployment. Matrix support bridges federated rooms into the same infrastructure, letting two decentralised ecosystems interoperate without a separate bridge stack to babysit. Clustering with consistent hashing scales a deployment across nodes, and a single node is rated at two million concurrent sessions for very large communities. Operators manage everything from the web admin and command line, with SQL or Mnesia storage, LDAP authentication, and virtual hosting for multiple domains on one server. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-2.0 licensed.
Matterbridge
With over 7,500 GitHub stars and 140 contributors, Matterbridge is the Go-powered chat bridge that connects over 20 messaging platforms through a single TOML configuration file, letting teams communicate across platform boundaries without forcing anyone to switch applications. The gateway architecture routes messages bidirectionally between any combination of Discord, Slack, Telegram, Matrix, IRC, Mattermost, Microsoft Teams, XMPP, Rocket.Chat, Nextcloud Talk, Keybase, Mumble, Twitch, WhatsApp, VK, Gitter, Zulip, ssh-chat, and Harmony, with transparent username and avatar spoofing so bridged messages appear native on each platform. Message edits and deletes propagate across bridges, file attachments and inline images transfer between protocols, threading and reply context is preserved where platforms support it, and private group bridging enables confidential cross-platform conversations. Multiple independent gateways can run simultaneously, each bridging different channel sets with different protocol combinations. The REST API enables third-party integrations and custom bridges without modifying the Matterbridge codebase, while the tengo scripting engine allows inline message transformation and filtering. Game chat support bridges Minecraft and Counter-Strike server chat into messaging platforms. Deployment runs as a single static Go binary with zero dependencies, or as the official Docker image with the configuration file mounted as a volume. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.
Dobase
Dobase replaces the scattered pile of team subscriptions with one self-hosted workspace where mail, kanban boards, documents, chat, to-do lists, files, a calendar, and video rooms live side by side. Install only the tools your team needs, and share each one with exactly the collaborators you choose; a board for the whole company and a private todo list can sit in the same window. Several people can type in the same document at once, watching each other's colored cursors while the text merges cleanly, and presence faces in the sidebar show who is inside every tool right now. Open tools arrange themselves as tiles in a wide window, so chat can sit next to the board it discusses and the calendar under the mail you are answering. Pressing Cmd+K searches cards, todos, documents, files, chat, events, and mail in one motion, and nearly everything also works from the keyboard alone. Mail threads conversations and lets you accept calendar invites from the message, files get public links guarded by a password and an expiry, and the calendar syncs with CalDAV services or runs on its own. Video rooms with screen sharing join the same workspace, mentions and notifications follow you, and an email digest catches up anyone who was away. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.
Polaris Control Plane
Polaris puts app deploys, file storage, team chat, tasks, and a password vault behind one login on a server you control. Deploy from a Git repository or an image with databases, volumes, environment variables, logs, a terminal, and a domain, published through your own domain, a Cloudflare tunnel, or DuckDNS. Enroll more machines over SSH with one generated command, then watch their containers and metrics and schedule backups with restore. Drive spans local disks, SFTP, S3-compatible storage, SMB, NFS, Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox, with password-protected public links, expiry, and drop points for people without an account. Vault works with the Bitwarden apps and extensions and encrypts in the browser, so the server never sees your master password. Chat brings channels, threads, direct messages, voice and video calls, screen sharing, and a soundboard, while Tasks adds lists, boards, sprints, goals, and time tracking, and can hand work to coding agents over MCP. Calendar syncs both ways with Google, Microsoft 365, and CalDAV and offers booking pages. Game servers run Minecraft, ARK, and FiveM, a firewall blocks countries, networks, and bots, and one-click Marketplace installs add more apps. The interface comes in English and Spanish. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.
Nodyx
Nodyx puts forum threads, real-time chat channels, peer-to-peer voice calls, collaborative whiteboards, and a drag-and-drop homepage builder behind one installation script on hardware you control. Create categories and threaded discussions that search engines index, then switch to Socket.IO-powered chat rooms where replies, pins, link previews, and @mentions update instantly. Voice channels connect participants through WebRTC mesh networking, keeping audio between peers without routing through third-party servers; a Rust-based STUN/TURN relay handles restrictive NATs so home-server deployments work without port forwarding. The NodyxCanvas layer adds CRDT-synchronized collaborative drawing with 11 tools, voice-aware cursors, and board-scoped chat, all persisted to PostgreSQL snapshots. Build your community's landing page with a visual editor that places widgets across 11 layout zones, then extend functionality by dropping third-party widget archives into the admin panel or authoring your own with the plain-JavaScript Widget SDK. Private conversations stay end-to-end encrypted with ECDH P-256 key exchange and AES-256-GCM ciphers where the private key never leaves the browser, and the OctoGuard module automates moderation with five matcher types plus configurable actions from muting to banning. For streamers, a native Streamer Hub bridges Twitch chat bidirectionally, provides a drag-and-drop soundboard, generates OBS browser-source overlays, and offers a mobile Stream Deck. Instances discover each other through a gossip protocol, forming a decentralized network without central coordination. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.
Colanode
With nearly 5,000 GitHub stars and a Hacker News launch that garnered 147 points, Colanode delivers the first genuinely local-first alternative to both Slack and Notion in a single self-hosted workspace — writing every operation to a client-side SQLite database before syncing to your server, so teams work at full speed offline, on planes, or through intermittent connections without ever losing a draft. The real-time chat system provides channels and direct messages with instant delivery via WebSocket, while the rich text editor offers Notion-style block-based pages for documents, wikis, meeting notes, and knowledge bases with headings, code blocks, embeds, and nested hierarchies. Customizable databases organize structured data with custom fields and three dynamic views — table for spreadsheet-style browsing, kanban for visual workflow boards, and calendar for time-based planning. Conflict-free Replicated Data Types powered by Yjs handle concurrent editing across pages and database records: multiple users modify the same document simultaneously and the system merges changes automatically without manual conflict resolution. File management supports upload, sharing, and organization within workspaces using pluggable storage backends including local filesystem, S3-compatible services, Google Cloud Storage, and Azure Blob Storage with TUS resumable uploads for large files. The server runs Fastify with Zod validation on Node.js 20+, persists to PostgreSQL with pgvector extension, uses Redis for event broadcasting, and deploys via a single Docker image. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.
Fluxer
Fluxer gives friends, gaming groups, and private communities their own self-hosted instant messaging and VoIP platform that replaces Discord with private text channels, voice rooms, video calls, and screen sharing. Members can chat one-on-one in direct messages, form multi-person group conversations, or organize large community servers into categorized text and voice channels with threaded replies, reactions, and typing indicators. When a conversation moves to voice, participants can join low-latency audio and video rooms from multiple devices simultaneously, share application windows or full screens, and rely on built-in noise suppression and echo cancellation for clear calls. Rich media support allows users to share file attachments, preview embedded links, search animated GIFs through KLIPY, and upload custom community emojis and stickers. Server administrators control access through role-based permission hierarchies, member timeouts, kicks, bans, and detailed moderation audit logs that track every configuration change across the community. Integrated full-text search lets members quickly locate historical messages, code snippets, and shared files across every channel they can access. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.