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A pretty website, but I'm not entirely sure how this differs from a mailing list based on your landing page.

devoply 7y ago
Mailing list rebranded as Slack channels with a pretty UI similar to Slack is what it looks like to me. Is there a market for that, I am sure there is for people who are not familiar with mailing lists and prefer a web app interface similar to Slack for their mailing lists.
- jonathonf 7y ago
  Slack is essentially IRC rebranded with a pretty UI, so I'd say yes. Rebrand anything with a pretty UI and someone in an "office job" will want to use it...
  - azinman2 7y ago
    There are some pretty critical differences from IRC: - history (this is probably the biggest) - in-line replies - 3rd party integrations - gif/photos/files
    - giggles_giggles 7y ago
      It's funny to see 3rd party integrations listed when IRC was barely more than telnet and was stupid simple to interact with programmatically. I wrote my first IRC bot, from zero knowledge to functioning in the channel, in 45 minutes. Try to do THAT with the Slack Integrations API or whatever. And that was when I was still learning how to code!
      - ukz 7y ago
        Slack's webhook integration is super easy I got my bot up and running in a minute.
1as 7y ago
(I work at Consider) Two main things I'd call out. First, it's easy to find history. With a Consider group, you can see all of the history of all groups you're in, right there in the email client. So – a new engineer, say, on their first day in the company, can browse engineering@. (And they can see all the conversations the team have pinned there, almost like a super lightweight wiki.) Second, it's easy to browse groups you're _not_ a member of. So, that engineer can stop by design@, and take a sneak peak of what the design team are working on now and then, without having their inbox fill up with stuff they're not interested in. Some companies (notably Stripe) have built cool internal tools to approximate these benefits on top of Gmail and Google Groups. With Consider + Groups, you get everything combined in one place by default.
- GarethX 7y ago
  Any plans for a unified inbox? I’ve two email accounts and switching between them in Consider is a hassle.
  - 1as 7y ago
    We hear this a lot, and it's something I'm personally interested in. There are also a few tradeoffs and downsides involved in building it… but it's something we’re actively considering.
spc476 7y ago
Or even USENET, which used the same format at email.

Mailing list rebranded as Slack channels with a pretty UI similar to Slack is what it looks like to me. Is there a market for that, I am sure there is for people who are not familiar with mailing lists and prefer a web app interface similar to Slack for their mailing lists.

jonathonf 7y ago
Slack is essentially IRC rebranded with a pretty UI, so I'd say yes. Rebrand anything with a pretty UI and someone in an "office job" will want to use it...
- azinman2 7y ago
  There are some pretty critical differences from IRC: - history (this is probably the biggest) - in-line replies - 3rd party integrations - gif/photos/files
  - giggles_giggles 7y ago
    It's funny to see 3rd party integrations listed when IRC was barely more than telnet and was stupid simple to interact with programmatically. I wrote my first IRC bot, from zero knowledge to functioning in the channel, in 45 minutes. Try to do THAT with the Slack Integrations API or whatever. And that was when I was still learning how to code!
    - ukz 7y ago
      Slack's webhook integration is super easy I got my bot up and running in a minute.

1as 7y ago

(I work at Consider) Two main things I'd call out. First, it's easy to find history. With a Consider group, you can see all of the history of all groups you're in, right there in the email client. So – a new engineer, say, on their first day in the company, can browse engineering@. (And they can see all the conversations the team have pinned there, almost like a super lightweight wiki.) Second, it's easy to browse groups you're _not_ a member of. So, that engineer can stop by design@, and take a sneak peak of what the design team are working on now and then, without having their inbox fill up with stuff they're not interested in. Some companies (notably Stripe) have built cool internal tools to approximate these benefits on top of Gmail and Google Groups. With Consider + Groups, you get everything combined in one place by default.

GarethX 7y ago
Any plans for a unified inbox? I’ve two email accounts and switching between them in Consider is a hassle.
- 1as 7y ago
  We hear this a lot, and it's something I'm personally interested in. There are also a few tradeoffs and downsides involved in building it… but it's something we’re actively considering.

spc476 7y ago

Or even USENET, which used the same format at email.