CometChat AIR is a complete, ready-to-use, self-hosted team messenger. Get channels, DMs, threads, voice and video calls, and file sharing out of the box. Deploy it entirely on your own infrastructure with no third-party cloud. AI, moderation, translation, and push are optional add-ons you turn on only when you need them. Built on infrastructure powering 113,000+ apps and 7M+ messages every day.
We kept hearing the same thing from IT and security teams at hospitals, banks, and government agencies: they wanted a real team messenger, not a stripped-down open-source project, but every option that looked good ran on somebody else's cloud. Tools like Slack are great until compliance asks where the data actually lives. Self-hosted alternatives exist, but they're a decade behind on features and a pain to run.
So we built CometChat AIR: a full team messenger, channels, DMs, threads, voice and video calls, files, search, that deploys entirely inside your own environment and is air-gapped by default. The core stays sealed. AI, moderation, translation, push notifications: all opt-in, all off unless you turn them on.
A few things worth knowing: - Three deployment modes: fully air-gapped, on-prem with selected outbound access, or our managed cloud if you'd rather we run it. - Built on a decade of messaging infrastructure, not chat bolted onto a generalist tool. 113,000+ apps and 7M+ messages a day already run on it. - Governance built in: full audit logs, role-based user management, blocked screenshots.
If your org has been stuck choosing between a good chat experience and where your data is allowed to live, this is for you.
Try it, break it, tell us what's missing, we're in the comments all day.
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Spent a couple hours with it and the self-hosted setup was way smoother than expected, everything just worked on my own box. The opt-in AI add-ons feel like a nice touch instead of being shoved in by default.
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The fact that AI, moderation, translation, and push are opt-in rather than shoved in by default is such a refreshing choice. Nice to see a team messenger that respects simplicity first.
@havva393403 Really appreciate that! We believe great team chat should stay simple by default, with AI and other advanced features available only when they add value.
CometChat
Hey Product Hunt! Amit from CometChat here,
We kept hearing the same thing from IT and security teams at hospitals, banks, and government agencies: they wanted a real team messenger, not a stripped-down open-source project, but every option that looked good ran on somebody else's cloud. Tools like Slack are great until compliance asks where the data actually lives. Self-hosted alternatives exist, but they're a decade behind on features and a pain to run.
So we built CometChat AIR: a full team messenger, channels, DMs, threads, voice and video calls, files, search, that deploys entirely inside your own environment and is air-gapped by default. The core stays sealed. AI, moderation, translation, push notifications: all opt-in, all off unless you turn them on.
A few things worth knowing:
- Three deployment modes: fully air-gapped, on-prem with selected outbound access, or our managed cloud if you'd rather we run it.
- Built on a decade of messaging infrastructure, not chat bolted onto a generalist tool. 113,000+ apps and 7M+ messages a day already run on it.
- Governance built in: full audit logs, role-based user management, blocked screenshots.
If your org has been stuck choosing between a good chat experience and where your data is allowed to live, this is for you.
Try it, break it, tell us what's missing, we're in the comments all day.
Spent a couple hours with it and the self-hosted setup was way smoother than expected, everything just worked on my own box. The opt-in AI add-ons feel like a nice touch instead of being shoved in by default.
The fact that AI, moderation, translation, and push are opt-in rather than shoved in by default is such a refreshing choice. Nice to see a team messenger that respects simplicity first.
CometChat
@havva393403 Really appreciate that! We believe great team chat should stay simple by default, with AI and other advanced features available only when they add value.