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Messenger. Right now it’s got group chat rooms. Super simple setup, no email required to register. You can create your own room or hop into one that’s already open.\n\nRoom owners can customize things like backgrounds and even cursors of their room. Users can format their messages with basic markdown like bold, italics, and color texts (kind of like the old Yahoo! days).\n\nI even brought back the classic Yahoo! Messenger emoticons because… well, why not?\n\nYou can try it out here: https:\u002F\u002Fbuzze",{"problem":46,"audience":47,"pricing":46,"motivation":53,"time_to_build":46,"stack":58,"openness":59,"stage":60,"team_size":59},null,{"value":48,"source":49,"evidence":50},"People nostalgic for Yahoo! Messenger","inferred",[51],{"id":52},"post",{"value":54,"source":55,"evidence":56},"Feeling nostalgic and wanting to recreate Yahoo! 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Might be helpful to have a few demo accounts",[143,150,157,168],{"value":144,"source":65,"evidence":145},"Escargot and Nina chat projects",[146],{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"43633056","navigate8310","This reminds me of these projects https:\u002F\u002Fescargot.chat\u002F and https:\u002F\u002Fnina.chat\u002F",{"value":151,"source":65,"evidence":152},"Retro AIM server",[153],{"id":154,"by":155,"text":156},"43634742","accrual","Also Retro AIM server, a reimplementation of the OSCAR login server in Golang! https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fmk6i\u002Fretro-aim-server",{"value":158,"source":65,"evidence":159},"Pidgin and Trillian",[160,164],{"id":161,"by":162,"text":163},"43642174","smusamashah","Reminds of Pidgin messanger which was the universal chat client (connects with msn, yahoo, google chat etc). 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