Campfire
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6recommend
1warn against
Dec 2, 2025first mention
Aug 21, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Campfire by 37Signals [0] might be interesting to you.”
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“It used to be a paid product, now it's free.”
“It's open source, trivial to self-host, and can support an arbitrary number of rooms and users.”
“pretty nice to use and easy to set up”
Caveats and dissent
“It is not an actively maintained Discord alternative.”
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“blabber on about agent coordination at internet scale without a walled garden”
“I made a spec and a reference impl that does that and more.”
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All comments 9
“https://once.com/campfire”
“Campfire by 37Signals [0] might be interesting to you.”
“It used to be a paid product, now it's free.”
“It's open source, trivial to self-host, and can support an arbitrary number of rooms and users.”
“It is not an actively maintained Discord alternative.”
“pretty nice to use and easy to set up”
I think Campfire used to have a one-time cost of $200 or something per domain, when did it switch to being free? Edit: found it, it was in August 2025 https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire/commit/df76a227dc19cd39cad9f560d61c0f27117365cf
“which is self-hostable and completely free”
“Unlike Campfire, where we shared a zero-history copy of the codebase”