Talkaroo is team chat done right — channels, threads, direct messages, mentions, search and file sharing in one fast, friendly place your whole team can run anywhere.
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Acme Inc
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Ada L. 9:41
Landing page is live 🎉 pushed the new hero this morning.
Grace H. 9:42
Beautiful. @Ada the mobile layout looks great too.
Alan T. 9:44
Shipping the release now — thread below for the checklist.
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Own your data
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History & channels
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The essentials of great team chat, done fast and kept simple.
A channel for every project, team and topic. Public so people can catch up, private when it matters.
Take the side conversation into a thread and keep the main channel skimmable.
@mention anyone or start a direct message. People get badged instantly — and emailed if they're away.
Every message, file and channel, searchable in a keystroke. Nothing gets lost.
Drag in files and images. Stored on S3-compatible object storage or local disk — your call.
Messages and reactions land instantly over a live connection — no refreshing, no polling.
Sign up and spin up your team's home in seconds. No credit card.
Add people by email — they get an invite link and land in the right channels.
Channels, threads, DMs and search. Everything your team needs to stay in sync.
Start free. Grow when you’re ready. Or run it yourself.
Everything a small team needs to start talking.
For organizations that want admin control and support.
Run it on your own infrastructure and own your data.
Ideas on team communication and how we build.
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Messages, reactions and typing show up instantly — with no fixed-interval polling. Here's the Server-Sent Events design that makes it feel alive.
Read →Talkaroo is a team-chat app — channels, threads, direct messages, mentions, search and file sharing — that keeps your whole team in sync and can run anywhere.
It's fast, focused and yours to run. You can use the hosted app or self-host it on your own infrastructure, so your history and data stay under your control.
Yes. It runs as a single web process backed by Postgres, with file storage on any S3-compatible service or local disk. Deploy it, point a domain at it, and you're live.
Yes — messages, reactions and unread badges update instantly over a live server-sent-events connection, with no fixed-interval polling.
Yes. If someone misses messages while they're offline, they get an email digest so nothing important slips through.
Create your workspace in seconds and invite the team by email. It’s free to start.
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