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Zulip

Open-source · self-hostable · replaces 1 SaaS tool on os-alt

zulip/zulip · alive · ★ 25.2k · last commit today · 2054 open issues

License: Apache-2.0

Good fit for Async teams that hate Slack's flat-channel firehose.

Weak at Cultural shift to topic-threaded chat is the actual blocker, not setup.

In a terminal? npx -y github:SolvoHQ/os-alt-cli slack prints the Slack comparison table including Zulip. how the CLI works →

Replaces these SaaS

  • Slack · Team chat

    Use the upstream `manage.py convert_slack_data` against a Slack export. Topic-threaded model means channels translate but conversations get re-bucketed; warn users that the topic discipline is a real change.

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