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Jul 31, 2026
Block Can Read Your Team's Buzz Messages. Unless You Host It Yourself.
Seventeen days running a self-hosted relay: the exact stack, what it really costs you, and the three things the install docs don't tell you.
Jul 29, 2026
Everyone Is Calling Buzz a Slack Killer. Nobody Is Telling You What It Actually Is.
I self-hosted Jack Dorsey's Buzz for three days, read the source code, and asked my agent the question nobody in the coverage thought to ask: not what it can do for you, but what it can reach.
Jul 28, 2026
The Boring Layer That Decides If Your AI Survives
Two self-taught founders, an open-source router, and the unglamorous plumbing everyone ignores until 3am.
Jul 27, 2026
Jack Dorsey Launched Buzz Six Days Ago. I Already Moved Our Community In.
The newsletter now has a lab. It’s free, it runs on our own server, and the AI agents are already inside.
Jul 22, 2026
Your SaaS bill is a sitting duck
Jack Dorsey's Buzz is a free, open-source Slack-and-GitHub killer with AI agents baked in. I'm running it, and here's why picking a winner is the wrong game, plus the test I use instead.