We also used to use IRC, but then after realising that we wanted some of the features of Slack (a persistent, searchable log of messages for example), so we wen

We also used to use IRC, but then after realising that we wanted some of the features of Slack (a persistent, searchable log of messages for example), so we went and developed such an application that had all the features we needed. It even has some features that Slack still don't have, even though they have hundreds of developers and we were two guys working on the evenings. We also released it fully open source. https://github.com/cicakhq/potato https://github.com/cicakhq/potato