One Gateway, Every Chat Platform — How OpenClaw Unifies Messaging

If you've ever built a chatbot, you know the pattern: pick a platform, read its API docs, write an integration, deploy it. Then your team asks for the same bot on another platform. So you write another integration. Then another. Before long, you have three separate bot deployments, three sets of credentials, three slightly different codebases handling the same logic with platform-specific quirks. The bot on Telegram can do things the Slack bot can't. The Discord version has bugs the WhatsApp version doesn't. Updates require deploying to multiple services.