Jack Dorsey’s Buzz is INSANE (FREE!)

**Julian Goldie** (0:00)
Today, we're going to be testing Buzz from Jack Dorsey. So this is a new open source project, you can see it right here, and it's built on something called Nostra. So it's kind of like a way to have your own version of Slack. And we're going to be testing this out, seeing how it performs. So you can chat with teammates, specialized agents in one shared place. You can get access at buzz.xyz, and you can either get the app, or you can open up the GitHub repo, which you can see right here. So to get started, we'll need Docker and Hermit. We can either set this up manually, or what I prefer to do is actually just run it through Claude. So let's go into Claude Desktop. And we'll say set this up. They're just going to switch to Opus 5 there. Whilst it's setting up, let's talk through what are the benefits, how does it work, et cetera. So what you can see here is it kind of looks like Slack. You've got like these channels, like design, engineering, whatever you want. And then you can tag in different agents to get stuff done. So I suppose you can give each one a specialty.
Then you can spin up a room as well. It also looks like you can comment on different files and that sort of thing. So you could comment on a video that's shared via Buzz. There's a desktop app for it as well. So let's try the desktop app whilst we're setting up the open source project. We can download that here, install it, and then we can open that. We can either choose to use Cloud Code or Codec. So I'm going to go with Cloud Code. You could install both of them as well if you wanted to. So you could have GPT 5.6 working with Cloud Code. That could actually be pretty cool. Let's do both. So the good thing, it looks like as well, is that you don't have to use an API key for this. So you can either use Cloud Code, or you can use Codec using your existing subscriptions, and then just go straight into it. And one of the best things about this, probably that you can give access to AI with your team. So your team can use the AI that you set up as well, which is kind of difficult with Hermes or OpenClaw.
This might make it easier, but let's test it out, see how it goes. It will just ask you to sign in. So you can see here, Cloud Code is ready, but for Codec, you have to sign in. Those are both ready now, took a couple of minutes. Then you can select your default. So I'm going to go with Cloud Code as a default harness to use. And from here, we can either join a community, create a community, or if we already have one, we can go with that. So I'm just going to create a new one. I sign in here. You just got to create a code, which from here, we just need to set up the community. They will interact with our AI agents with. We're going to create a username, we've got the team ready to go, squad loaded up, and here it is. So it really does look like Slack, doesn't it? This is crazy. Let's have a look. If we create a new channel here, we're just going to go with something basic. For example, let's see what we could create or what we've joined. I have search or create a channel. Let's create a channel here, and we'll call this content-ideas. You can switch between the channel type, so if it's ongoing or temporary, and whether it's publicly available or private. So let's just go with public for now. Create the channel. There we go. All right. So we can now invite our team to it if we want to. We can just add people, or we can click on create an agent, and we can choose where we want to select our existing agents here, Fizz, Honey or Bumble, or we can create a new agent, and we can give it a custom purpose. So let's just try the default now. We'll add all three like so. Let's try this out. So if we tag in Fizz, and we say, hey, come up with some content ideas around OpenClaw for today, then you can see it marks the notification. It's got the speech balloon.
It's a little bit like OpenClaw or Hermes, where it can just interact directly on whatever community you have, whether that's Slack or Discord, but it seems way easier to set up. And also this is pretty cool app. And then also the CLI hasn't cost us anything extra, because we've already got that loaded. We've already got GPT 5.6 with Codex, and we have Claude Code as well. Now the agent, it looks like it actually looked through my local files on OpenClaw, so you can see that at the bottom, and it should be coming up with content ideas. Also, because it's got Codex, it should be able to create images as well. Well, we'll test that out in a second. Let's see if it can. So we've got a reply on that now. Let's have a look, switch off those notifications. That's how you get distracted, my friends. And then you can see here, it's come up with a bunch of ideas.