Chat

Customer messaging and community chat wired into your product.

This hub gathers the blocks for building conversational products: chat UI kits, messaging infrastructure, AI chat frameworks and the realtime plumbing that carries conversations between users or between a user and a model.

Why it matters to an indie builder: chat is the interface customers assume exists. Support, community, collaboration and every AI product's default front door route through a conversation surface, and the building blocks are mature enough that the differentiator is the experience wrapped around them, memory, context, tool use, not the message transport.

A realistic pattern: an AI assistant product assembles a headless chat framework for the conversation state, a streaming UI kit for the typing experience, and the provider's SDK for generation, with websockets or server-sent events carrying tokens as they arrive.

The trade-off: chat looks simple and hides state, sessions, presence, unread counts, retry and history, that generic backends handle poorly. The dedicated platforms here exist to absorb that. Compare the agent-harness blocks when the conversation is a means to execute work, not the product itself.