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Matrix bridges. I run my own matrix instance with bridges to the services I use (google messages, whatsapp, irc, discord; there are other bridges available) so I can use one client for all.
Thanks for sharing this. It sounds like a powerful setup, but I’m not very technical, so managing a Matrix instance feels a bit complex for my use case. I’ve also tried integrating Google Chat, but it hasn’t been possible due to recent changes in Google’s security policies, which makes it harder to rely on as a complete solution
I'm a bit late to the party but the stack I run is what Beeper uses. If you don't mind handing them your IMs it's exactly what they host and it works great (used it for a year before I decided to host my own things). They make you use their client but AFAIK beeper.com is really just a very fancy matrix instance so you could use probably any Matrix client.
As for managing an instance, see my recent comment about DB maintenance. There's nothing more to it than that as far as maintenance is concerned for just a few users instance. Then installing the bridges isn't hard because the docs are really good.