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Shopify is acquiring the Threads team

15 points by potench 2y ago

jsheard 2y ago
For clarity that's Threads (the Slack clone), not Threads (the Twitter clone)
- richbell 2y ago
  https://threads.com/ https://threads.com/
- solardev 2y ago
  Thanks for the clarification. I thought it was Thread, the IoT home automation protocol and that they were moving into Alexa-like features or something. So many different technologies with the same name :(
monksy 2y ago
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willsmith72 2y ago
i'd never heard of threads.com, but now can't even see their landing page. it's just about the acquisition. good luck googling it too what was threads.com?
- codetrotter 2y ago
  Here is a snapshot of threads.com from a few months ago: https://archive.is/mWdxZ https://archive.is/mWdxZ It says: > Threads is a workplace communications tool. > Designed for teams of... and then: > Threads are made up of blocks, arranged to organize ideas. > In 4 easy steps, we'll show you how to use them to share updates, meeting notes, plans, documents, announcements, questions, and presentations. Further down are some images of a workplace messenger that looks like somewhere between an email client and Slack.
- threeseed 2y ago
  It was a clone of Slack: https://framerusercontent.com/images/gtX6DuzLQKg1ObGx4vz6jlNLs.png https://framerusercontent.com/images/gtX6DuzLQKg1ObGx4vz6jlN...
codetrotter 2y ago
For a moment I thought it was about the Instagram Threads team, and I thought surely not. Then I saw that the tweet mentioned Instagram Threads when skim reading and I was confused. But no. This is about a startup named Threads that was approached by Instagram for the domain Threads.com that this startup owned. And this startup ultimately got aquired by Shopify.
- deleted 2y ago
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- sshine 2y ago
  Without this context, I simply did not understand the post. There are too many products called threads.
mostlysimilar 2y ago
Interesting, I wonder if Threads was a Rails app.
- gordon_freeman 2y ago
  I know Shopify founder is a big fan of Rails and RoR framework from a documentary [1] So does not surprise if he is doing this as an acqui-hire to get more quality RoR Devs to join Shopify! [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDKUEXBF3B4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDKUEXBF3B4
  - willsmith72 2y ago
    are they not all-in on remix/js now? or is the backend side all still rails?
    - solardev 2y ago
      Does Remix come close to Rails in terms of dealing with things like auth and databases and such?
      - willsmith72 2y ago
        well it depends.. remix is just the compiler, your backend is just whatever node/cloudflare/whatever framework/libraries you want. so no, it's nothing like rails in the batteries-included sense, but if someone built their server using node previously, it's the exact same using remix

15 points by potench 2y ago

jsheard 2y ago

For clarity that's Threads (the Slack clone), not Threads (the Twitter clone)

richbell 2y ago
https://threads.com/ https://threads.com/
solardev 2y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I thought it was Thread, the IoT home automation protocol and that they were moving into Alexa-like features or something. So many different technologies with the same name :(

monksy 2y ago

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willsmith72 2y ago

i'd never heard of threads.com, but now can't even see their landing page. it's just about the acquisition. good luck googling it too what was threads.com?

codetrotter 2y ago
Here is a snapshot of threads.com from a few months ago: https://archive.is/mWdxZ https://archive.is/mWdxZ It says: > Threads is a workplace communications tool. > Designed for teams of... and then: > Threads are made up of blocks, arranged to organize ideas. > In 4 easy steps, we'll show you how to use them to share updates, meeting notes, plans, documents, announcements, questions, and presentations. Further down are some images of a workplace messenger that looks like somewhere between an email client and Slack.
threeseed 2y ago
It was a clone of Slack: https://framerusercontent.com/images/gtX6DuzLQKg1ObGx4vz6jlNLs.png https://framerusercontent.com/images/gtX6DuzLQKg1ObGx4vz6jlN...

codetrotter 2y ago

For a moment I thought it was about the Instagram Threads team, and I thought surely not. Then I saw that the tweet mentioned Instagram Threads when skim reading and I was confused. But no. This is about a startup named Threads that was approached by Instagram for the domain Threads.com that this startup owned. And this startup ultimately got aquired by Shopify.

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sshine 2y ago
Without this context, I simply did not understand the post. There are too many products called threads.

mostlysimilar 2y ago

Interesting, I wonder if Threads was a Rails app.

gordon_freeman 2y ago
I know Shopify founder is a big fan of Rails and RoR framework from a documentary [1] So does not surprise if he is doing this as an acqui-hire to get more quality RoR Devs to join Shopify! [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDKUEXBF3B4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDKUEXBF3B4
- willsmith72 2y ago
  are they not all-in on remix/js now? or is the backend side all still rails?
  - solardev 2y ago
    Does Remix come close to Rails in terms of dealing with things like auth and databases and such?
    - willsmith72 2y ago
      well it depends.. remix is just the compiler, your backend is just whatever node/cloudflare/whatever framework/libraries you want. so no, it's nothing like rails in the batteries-included sense, but if someone built their server using node previously, it's the exact same using remix