Show HN: Messy: a self-hostable messaging platform

Category: infrastructure

Tags: messaging, self-hosted, notification-platform

Score: 6.8/10 (Innovation: 5, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

Messy is an open-source, self-hostable messaging platform that unifies email, SMS, WhatsApp, and push notifications through a single API, with additional features like campaigns, drip automation, a shared inbox, chat widget, and social publishing. It is interesting because it packs the functionality of multiple services into one integrated stack (Rails + Postgres + React) while avoiding Redis by leveraging Postgres for background jobs and websockets, and it includes an MCP server for AI agent integration.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, full-stack devs

Repository: https://github.com/erip-me/messy · Ruby · NOASSERTION · 1 stars

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