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Re:Show HN: Amber – better Beeper, a modern all-in-one messe... by Jonovono on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @05:50PM (#45109563)
I think most of these are built using Matrix: https://matrix.org. They have connections with most providers like iMessage, FB, Instagram, etc
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Re:Show HN: Amber – better Beeper, a modern all-in-one messe... by swyx on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @06:25PM (#45109909)
ok is there an "open source beeper" that has emerged that i can play with? cant use amber because closed source
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Re:Show HN: Amber – better Beeper, a modern all-in-one messe... by tulir on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @07:15PM (#45110343)
The bridges made for Beeper are all open source (https://github.com/mautrix/), so you can set up your own Matrix server with bridges and use any open source Matrix client (https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/).

Besides Beeper, the only consumer bridge hosting service I'm aware of is Element One, but it's only barely maintained, so I'd definitely recommend self-hosting over that.

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Re:Show HN: Amber – better Beeper, a modern all-in-one messe... by WorldPeas on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @10:55PM (#45111826)
I don't think they use that anymore though? From what I've heard it all happens locally now with a proprietary solution.
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Re:Show HN: Amber – better Beeper, a modern all-in-one messe... by Jonovono on Tuesday September 02, 2025 @11:02PM (#45111853)
Interesting, i'd be curious to learn more. It's been awhile since I looked into Beeper/Texts type apps.
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Re:Show HN: Amber – better Beeper, a modern all-in-one messe... by WorldPeas on Wednesday September 03, 2025 @01:13PM (#45118232)
at least from talking to Eric at a meetup, I think some are still on remote implementations. I know texts definitely needs to do the iMessage implementation locally, but they're moving everything client-side, which to me as a thunderbird user, makes the most sense. I just wish we could have something like libpurple again that would allow me to finally get back to the everything-in-one-app paradigm
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