Novu Connect lets any AI agent have two-way conversations across Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, Telegram, and email without building each channel integration yourself. Bring your own agent logic, model, or code. Novu handles the communication layer: delivery, identity resolution, threading, routing, and channel-specific formatting, so your agent can reach users where they already work.
Dima covered the what. Let me cover why it matters.
The agents people are building no longer just answer questions in a chat box. They send approvals, ask follow-ups, escalate, and report back. For any of that to work, the agent has to reach a real human on the channel that human actually uses, hold the thread, and pick the conversation back up when they reply. That last mile is where most agents stall, and fail to deliver value.
Novu Connect is that last mile. Connecting Agents to Humans on every channel. And it runs on infrastructure teams already trust in production, with SOC 2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001. Not a brand-new unknown stack, the proven one, now two-way.
Easiest way to feel it: open the terminal you already have Claude in and prompt Add an agent to my app https://novu.co/agents.md. A timer starts, and under 60 seconds later your agent is talking on Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, Telegram, or email. Then message it back and watch it hold the thread.
We built this for you. Tell us what is missing, we are listening all day. 🙌
Congrats on the launch. The piece I'd want to understand before adopting a notifications layer is failure semantics: when a downstream provider (email/SMS/push) is degraded, does Novu retry with backoff and fall back to the next channel automatically, or is that orchestration something I define per workflow? Dedupe across channels is the other one — stopping a user getting the same alert by email AND push.
Strong launch. The hardest part of agent UX is meeting users inside existing workflows; Slack/Teams/email threading + identity resolution is exactly the unglamorous glue. Curious how you handle conversation state when the same user jumps channels?
Excited to try it. What's the free tier look like for someone just experimenting?
Emil here, I work on the marketing side at Novu.
The founders have already covered the what and the why, so I'll just add the one thing that made this click for me.
For months, we kept saying "connect agents to channels." But the longer I sat with it, the more I realized connecting a channel is the easy part.
The hard, unglamorous part is keeping one conversation coherent when a user starts on Slack, replies from WhatsApp, and finishes over email. For the agent, it should be a single thread. Same memory, same context. That continuity is the whole point, and it is genuinely hard to build.
The moment it stopped being a slide and became real for me was watching an agent go live on an actual channel in about two minutes, no API key, no plumbing.
If you're building agents, I'd love for you to try it and tell me where it surprises you or where it breaks.
So, which channel would you put your agent on first?
Incredible launch, team Novu! 🚀 'Bring your own brain, Novu handles the voice' is the perfect line. It’s awesome to see a trusted open-source notification stack evolve into a robust two-way conversational layer for AI. Bookmarking this for my next build!
This solves a real pain for us honestly, can I see delivery status, like did the human actually get it?
Congrats on the launch! 🚀
The "-second rule for terminal-to-channel connectivity is a huge win for developer velocity. Running npx novu connect to bridge agents with Slack or WhatsApp that quickly sounds like a dream for anyone building in the AI agent space right now.
Can't wait to see how this simplifies multi-channel notifications! Just curious, how do you handle the auth/handshake for the more walled garden channels like WhatsApp within that minute?
Good luck today!
Just tried the Claude prompt. Mind = blown. What’s the latency like on WhatsApp replies?
Congrats! 🙌
Love the idea of ACI, it solves a real pain point of building and doing all hassle with the integrations layer, which is a huge distraction where at the end you want just to ship the agent quickly.
I will be definitely using it for my side projects to create, automate, research, part of the work I do manualy. And I am waiting for the scheduling support!😊
I am curious what others have alredy build on top of this?
Standard text is fine but interactive elements like slack buttons or whataap quicl replyes really drive engagmetns for bots, can our agents pass intereactive ui payloads through Novo connect ?
This solves a real pain for us honestly - can I see delivery status, like did the human actually get it?
Damn this is clean😎
How do I manage audit logs and see what my agent actually sent?
Is there any hope of integrating with Linkedin chat messaging? either corporate or personal?
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Dima, CTO and co-founder of Novu.
For four years we've built the open-source notification infrastructure that 40k+ developers use to reach their users across Slack, email, push, and more everyday. Then AI agents arrived and we kept hitting the same wall: agents got incredibly good at thinking, but they still cannot properly communicate to the people they work for. Every channel has its own webhooks, identity model, and threading, so you rebuild the same plumbing for Slack, then Teams, then WhatsApp. It is weeks of work that has nothing to do with your agent.
So we built Novu Connect.
It gives your agent a voice across multiple through unified API. We are naming this layer ACI, Agent Communication Infrastructure. MCP connected agents to tools. A2A connected agents to each other. ACI connects agents to people.
The line we will not cross: we never run your agents brain. Bring Claude Managed Agent or your custom code with AI SDK/Langchain, and Novu just carries the conversation.
Pro tip, try it without leaving your terminal: open the terminal where you already have Claude running and prompt it: Add an agent to my app https://novu.co/agents.md. No account needed, try it out.
I'll be in the comments all day. Would love your honest, technical feedback. 🙏
About Novu Connect on Product Hunt
“Ship agents where your users already work”
Novu Connect launched on Product Hunt on June 15th, 2026 and earned 266 upvotes and 44 comments, earning #1 Product of the Day. Novu Connect lets any AI agent have two-way conversations across Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, Telegram, and email without building each channel integration yourself. Bring your own agent logic, model, or code. Novu handles the communication layer: delivery, identity resolution, threading, routing, and channel-specific formatting, so your agent can reach users where they already work.
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Hi everyone, I'm Tomer, co-founder at Novu.
Dima covered the what. Let me cover why it matters.
The agents people are building no longer just answer questions in a chat box. They send approvals, ask follow-ups, escalate, and report back. For any of that to work, the agent has to reach a real human on the channel that human actually uses, hold the thread, and pick the conversation back up when they reply. That last mile is where most agents stall, and fail to deliver value.
Novu Connect is that last mile. Connecting Agents to Humans on every channel. And it runs on infrastructure teams already trust in production, with SOC 2, HIPAA, and ISO 27001. Not a brand-new unknown stack, the proven one, now two-way.
Easiest way to feel it: open the terminal you already have Claude in and prompt Add an agent to my app https://novu.co/agents.md. A timer starts, and under 60 seconds later your agent is talking on Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, Telegram, or email. Then message it back and watch it hold the thread.
We built this for you. Tell us what is missing, we are listening all day. 🙌