Dude Messaging Application is everything you love about Telegram — chats, groups, channels, voice & video, bots, stickers — packaged as a self-hosted, fully-brandable platform. Run it on your servers, change every pixel, own every byte.
We love Telegram. The speed, the channels, the bots, the stickers — it nailed the feel of a modern messenger. But Telegram is a product, not a platform you can shape. You can't host it. You can't rebrand it. You can't add the one feature your community is asking for.
Dude Messaging Application is our answer to that. Same beloved feature set, redesigned from scratch as a self-hostable, white-label platform with a real REST/streaming API and a real codebase you can extend. Built with care, shipped with love.
Side-by-side with the messengers your users already know. Dude isn't trying to be different — it's trying to be everything you love, but ownable.
It's not about the features (we matched them). It's about what you can do with the platform once you own it.
Logo, colors, typography, app icons, splash screens, push-notification sounds, sticker packs, email templates — every surface is yours.
Host on AWS, GCP, Azure, or your own metal. GDPR, HIPAA, SOC 2 — we ship the audit-ready playbooks.
Want crypto payments, ticketing, AI summarization, in-app commerce? We build it. The codebase is yours to extend forever.
Slack charges $7-15 per user per month. Dude charges you once. Scale to a million users without scaling the invoice.
No app store can ban your community. No vendor can change the rules. You're the platform now.
A real REST + streaming API and a bot SDK. CRM, payments, ERP, your custom backend — wire it all together.
If you've ever wished 'Telegram, but for our company / community / region' — you're our customer.
Country-specific messengers that follow local data laws and language norms.
A Slack alternative your IT team controls, with no per-seat ransom.
A Discord-style hub with your brand, your moderation rules, your monetization.
On-prem messaging with auditability and air-gap support.
A branded support inbox with bots, queues, and CRM hooks.
Plus the moderation, admin, and analytics tools you need to actually operate a messenger.
Direct chats, groups up to 200K members, broadcast channels with unlimited subscribers. Threads, replies, reactions.
Signal-protocol-based E2E for secret chats and group voice/video. Verified-only mode for sensitive workspaces.
Crystal-clear 1:1 calls, group calls up to 100 participants, screen-share, recording, noise suppression, and live transcripts.
Animated sticker packs, GIF search, custom emoji per workspace. Upload your own — set them as the default for your brand.
Bot SDK with inline keyboards, webhooks, slash commands. Full REST + streaming API. Build automations, integrate anything.
Native iOS & Android, modern web app, and Tauri-based desktop apps for macOS, Windows, and Linux — all in sync.
Drop in your logo, pick a color, ship. Or go deeper — fonts, animations, custom layouts, your domain, your stores.
Elixir/Phoenix for the messaging core (spiritual ancestor to WhatsApp). Postgres for persistence. Redis for hot state. Kafka for the audit log. Kubernetes for everything else. Deploys to your AWS/GCP/Azure account in a day.
No. Dude is an original codebase that takes inspiration from Telegram's feature set, design language, and feel — but every line is ours, written from scratch, with no Telegram code or trademarks.
Fully. We hand over a Terraform repo, Helm charts, and a runbook. You deploy to your AWS / GCP / Azure / bare metal. We do not phone home. You can air-gap it if you like.
We ship a Telegram chat-export importer for individuals, and a bridge bot for keeping cross-platform groups in sync during migration.
Yes — that's the point. You publish them under your own developer accounts. We provide the icons, splash screens, and store-listing templates. Or we publish for you.
Dude ships with a WebRTC SFU (LiveKit-compatible). Tested to 100-participant group calls. Larger meetings supported via an HLS broadcast tier.
You still have the full source code, the infrastructure, and the documentation. We don't hold any cloud keys, license keys, or kill-switches. You're free either way.
Free 30-minute discovery call. We'll scope your project, recommend a stack, and give a budget range — no commitment.