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👀 Some words about Chatto, my BIG project. It's a group chat app that - is incredibly easy to self-host - has very modest hardware requirements - scales really well - apache-2.0 license - hosted platform launching in 2026 Looking forward to writing much more about this soon. Let's do this. 🚀

hmans.devIntroducing ChattoI'm building an Open Source group chat application that's simple to self-host, familiar to use, and easy to customize.

Hurrdurr

@devhurrdurr.bsky.social

27 Dec 2025

Exciting! I’d really want a proper self hosted alternative to the existing services that harvest more data than we’re willing to give, or are expensive. Are there any plans for iOS and Android native apps? Chat + apps is quite the undertaking but a man can dream 🥹

Hendrik Mans

@hmans.dev

Native mobile apps are currently a non-goal for me personally, but we'll see what the future brings. I'm personally very big on PWA approaches, also because there are some UI things I want to do that I'd hate to have to maintain across three separate codebases. :P

27/12/25, 2:36 pm0 reposts1 like

Hurrdurr

@devhurrdurr.bsky.social

27 Dec 2025

I thought Apple wanted to kill PWA but I’m glad to be wrong. What a relief!

Hendrik Mans

@hmans.dev

27 Dec 2025

So, realistically, the mobile app roadmap sort of looks like this: 1) no app at all, users will just use their browsers 2) add PWA bits to the web app 3) make native apps that basically just wrap the web UI, but provide native push notifications 4) ??? (For me, 3 is good enough)