If you want Claude AI on your phone, you now have two real options: Claude Code Channels Anthropic's official integration and Telechat an open-source…
If you want Claude AI on your phone, you now have two real options: Claude Code Channels (Anthropic's official integration) and Telechat (an open-source, self-hosted alternative). Both solve the same problem — getting Claude into your messaging apps — but they make fundamentally different architectural choices.
This is an honest comparison. I built Telechat, so I'm biased, but I'll be upfront about where Channels is the better choice.
The quick version
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Claude Code Channels
Hey HN, I built Telechat — a self-hosted Claude AI bot that runs on your machine and connects to Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, and…
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I wanted my local AI coding workflow to keep working from the chat app I actually use, without changing Claude Code or Codex.
