Building AI Agents with Hot Dev

Hot Chat is a complete AI chat demo with a TeamAgent and a PersonalAgent running side by side. Built on hot-ai-agent 1.0.0, a new Hot package for building AI agents. Clone and run in 15 minutes.

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2026-04-30 • Curtis Summers, Founder

Hot Dev Is Now Open Source (Apache 2.0)

Hot Dev is now open source under Apache 2.0. The language, runtime, CLI, dashboard, and platform — why we did it, what's included, and what's next.

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2026-04-08 • Curtis Summers, Founder

Product Updates: Free Plan, Tasks, and Containers

Free cloud plan, long-running tasks, OCI containers, and packages for FFmpeg, Playwright, Whisper, Tesseract, and more.

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2026-02-23 • Curtis Summers, Founder

Product Updates: MCP, Domains, Webhooks, and More

Hot Dev product updates — MCP Services, Custom Domains, Service Keys, Webhooks, granular permissions, sessions, alerts, new packages, and UI improvements.

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2026-02-11 • Curtis Summers, Founder

Build an AI Slack Bot with Claude, GPT, Grok, & Gemini

How to build an AI Slack bot with Claude, GPT, Grok, & Gemini using Hot Dev. Step-by-step tutorial — multi-model AI, live model switching, and one-command deploy.

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2025-01-27 • Curtis Summers, Founder

Introducing Hot Dev

Hot Dev is a new way to build backend workflows with real-time observability, powerful AI integrations, and a simple syntax that gets out of your way.

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