Someone just asked me if Chatto has a Discord
No, Chatto does not have a Discord
No, Chatto does not have a Discord
August 5, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Someone just asked me if Chatto has a Discord
No, Chatto does not have a Discord
No, Chatto does not have a Discord
"Right plant, right place"
Beth Chatto 🌱
Beth Chatto 🌱
March 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"Right plant, right place"
Beth Chatto 🌱
Beth Chatto 🌱
A quick video update about Chatto!
August 24, 2026 at 10:24 AM
A quick video update about Chatto!
Chatto, a privacy-focused group and team chat platform with voice, video, and screen sharing, is now open source and free to self-host.
linuxiac.com/chatto-chat-...
#OpenSource
linuxiac.com/chatto-chat-...
#OpenSource
Chatto Chat App Is Now Open Source and Available to Self-Host
Chatto, a privacy-focused group and team chat platform with voice, video, and screen sharing, is now open source and free to self-host.
linuxiac.com
July 10, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Chatto, a privacy-focused group and team chat platform with voice, video, and screen sharing, is now open source and free to self-host.
linuxiac.com/chatto-chat-...
#OpenSource
linuxiac.com/chatto-chat-...
#OpenSource
Arrival of the themes!
September 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Arrival of the themes!
Introduction
What you should know before setting up Chatto.
docs.chatto.run
July 15, 2026 at 7:08 AM
Hey chatto, what would be the perfect horror movie to Muppetize??
March 12, 2026 at 10:52 AM
Hey chatto, what would be the perfect horror movie to Muppetize??
Chatto is almost entirely built with agentic engineering workflows. I've written a blog post about what this means in practice.
Chatto is Robots
Chatto is built with agentic engineering. Here's my workflow.
www.hmans.dev
July 16, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Chatto is almost entirely built with agentic engineering workflows. I've written a blog post about what this means in practice.
Today is probably a fine day to mention that I've been working on a self-hostable Discordslacklike called Chatto. It's steadily moving towards feature parity with the big kids, with everything crammed into a single compact 50 MB executable that can run off the cheapest VM you can find.
February 9, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Today is probably a fine day to mention that I've been working on a self-hostable Discordslacklike called Chatto. It's steadily moving towards feature parity with the big kids, with everything crammed into a single compact 50 MB executable that can run off the cheapest VM you can find.
Happy to report that the Chatto development instance is now available for testing. Go nuts (but not too nuts, k?)
Chatto Dev Instance
The development instance of Chatto, the lean, self-hostable chat app. Come try the latest builds and hang with the team.
dev.chatto.run
January 29, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Happy to report that the Chatto development instance is now available for testing. Go nuts (but not too nuts, k?)
January 17, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Chatto is a very normal chat app with equally normal easter eggs
September 25, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Chatto is a very normal chat app with equally normal easter eggs
Keith Chatto
March 30, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Keith Chatto
Chatto 0.5 Feature Preview: theme customization! You asked for it, we... maybe went a little too hard. Enjoy!
September 26, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Chatto 0.5 Feature Preview: theme customization! You asked for it, we... maybe went a little too hard. Enjoy!
Chatto Development Instance Available
If you've been eager to try out Chatto, here's your chance!
www.hmans.dev
February 9, 2026 at 3:32 PM
ICYMI, Chatto is now Open Source and available for self-hosting. It's still early days, with Chatto currently sitting at 0.4, but it's a good version that we're happily using in production, so have at it!
Here's our social media manager @hmans.dev with all the deets:
Here's our social media manager @hmans.dev with all the deets:
Chatto is now Open Source!
The snappiest chat application you've ever used is now available for self-hosting.
www.hmans.dev
July 14, 2026 at 8:04 AM
ICYMI, Chatto is now Open Source and available for self-hosting. It's still early days, with Chatto currently sitting at 0.4, but it's a good version that we're happily using in production, so have at it!
Here's our social media manager @hmans.dev with all the deets:
Here's our social media manager @hmans.dev with all the deets:
A poem for mothers and children and war by Mona Arshi from her Chatto collection Mouth.
March 24, 2026 at 8:38 PM
A poem for mothers and children and war by Mona Arshi from her Chatto collection Mouth.
Illustration by Mervyn Peake for THE ANCIENT MARINER (Chatto & Windus, 1943) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
September 21, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Illustration by Mervyn Peake for THE ANCIENT MARINER (Chatto & Windus, 1943) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Giving Chatto sentience may have been a Mistake™ .
May 14, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Giving Chatto sentience may have been a Mistake™ .
HAPPY #MagicalDeabut DAY ✨
I can finally announce I was in charge of the chatto mascot and landscape desk mat. Thank you for becoming my oshi. 🩷
#AzulotusArt
I can finally announce I was in charge of the chatto mascot and landscape desk mat. Thank you for becoming my oshi. 🩷
#AzulotusArt
April 4, 2026 at 5:58 PM
HAPPY #MagicalDeabut DAY ✨
I can finally announce I was in charge of the chatto mascot and landscape desk mat. Thank you for becoming my oshi. 🩷
#AzulotusArt
I can finally announce I was in charge of the chatto mascot and landscape desk mat. Thank you for becoming my oshi. 🩷
#AzulotusArt
And, finally, my blog post about my agentic development workflow:
Chatto is Robots
Chatto is built with agentic engineering. Here's my workflow.
www.hmans.dev
August 24, 2026 at 10:26 AM
And, finally, my blog post about my agentic development workflow:
feeling cute might delete later
. Support for more package managers will be added with time!
2. **Generate a configuration file:**
Move to an empty directory and have Chatto generate a configuration file:
```bash
chatto init
```
This creates a `chatto.toml` with random secrets for cookie signing, cookie encryption, runtime-token verifiers, asset signing, and NATS authentication.
**Take a minute to review this file.** It's already a working configuration, but you may want to customize some things. You will _definitely_ want to provide SMTP credentials.
3. **Start the server:**
```bash
chatto run
```
4. **Open your browser** to [http://localhost:4000](http://localhost:4000) (or whatever port you configured in the configuration file.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r5vna26rxavzyk5iuyqumdrg/bafkreie6pku6pbjlgwmtnu5qeyyq3cr3mbme7tw3d7xv5cc6eulrhytrdy)
June 24, 2026 at 3:39 PM
feeling cute might delete later
Two weeks ago I wrote about my development workflow for Chatto, and feedback has been fantastic. I'm particularly happy that it even made some of my AI hating friends go "okay, that's actually quite cool".
We need to write more about our actual work, and in less of a preachy AI-salesperson voice.
We need to write more about our actual work, and in less of a preachy AI-salesperson voice.
Chatto is Robots
Chatto is built with agentic engineering. Here's my workflow.
www.hmans.dev
August 2, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Two weeks ago I wrote about my development workflow for Chatto, and feedback has been fantastic. I'm particularly happy that it even made some of my AI hating friends go "okay, that's actually quite cool".
We need to write more about our actual work, and in less of a preachy AI-salesperson voice.
We need to write more about our actual work, and in less of a preachy AI-salesperson voice.