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Shopify is acquiring the Threads team
- tech234a 2y agoNote: this is not Instagram Threads
- your_challenger 2y agoHahah! I was confused too. Maybe now Meta can acquire the threads.com domain
- gpm 2y ago> It all started with the rise of Instagram Threads, which presented us with the opportunity to sell our domains. Sounds like yes lol
- wiradikusuma 2y agoMaybe Shopify can get ROI from the domain sale to Meta?
- xwolfi 2y agoBut what is it exactly?
- tech234a 2y ago"A Slack replacement, not a social app from Instagram" according to the login page (https://threads.com/login https://threads.com/login)
- gandalfgreybeer 2y agoThe fact that that disclaimer is on the login page itself sounds really problematic.
- scratchee 2y agoIt was billed as a slower paced Slack alternative. More forum and less IRC iirc.
- doubloon 2y agoso.. cotton threads?
- vehementi 2y agoJesus it even mentions Instagram Threads in it
- TruffleLabs 2y agoSurvey says: Sell threads.com to Meta
- scratchee 2y ago11 days to get your data out and into a new tool. Must’ve been a fire sale where Shopify wants no part of running or supporting the product.
- pinkmuffinere 2y agoEven after clicking around a bit, I still can’t tell what this “threads” is. Can anyone offer a summary?
- shawnz 2y agoThe login page is enlightening: > A Slack replacement, not a social app from Instagram
- nomilk 2y agoWish I noticed this before reading the whole announcement!
- Shadowmist 2y agoI wonder if Shopify bought the wrong one on accident.
- nomilk 2y agoThe title should be: 'Shopify is acquiring a Threads team'
- evancharles 2y ago"Threads is a Slack replacement designed for makers," from https://www.linkedin.com/company/threadsgroupinc/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/threadsgroupinc/
- fsckboy 2y ago"... and made by makers!"
- seizethecheese 2y agoTautology
- jdross 2y agoThreads must have had very little meaningful usage from customers to be able to shut down and delete all data within 2 weeks of the announcement with hardly a mention of how this might impact their userbase
- jslaby 2y agoYeah, I read that thinking it was Instagram Threads... and was confused to the cheery tone of the announcement.
- anonymousab 2y agoAccording to their Twitter posts, they have been working directly with their heavier users for a while longer to get them migrated off.
- KronisLV 2y ago> According to their Twitter posts, they have been working directly with their heavier users for a while longer to get them migrated off. Props to them, but this is why I have a dislike for cloud software. Companies wouldn't even need to do that in the first place, if they had just used self-hosted Mattermost or Rocket.Chat, or something else, since those are usually good enough for like 80% to 90% of the use cases anyways. Possibly with some other software thrown in the mix as well, like OpenProject.
- from-nibly 2y agoHeavy its a huge pain to set that up and maintain it though. Rocket chat, last time I checked required building your own android app and pushing it to the store.
- asnyder 2y agoNo need to build your own android app for rocket.chat. They have their own apps that work well with your own self-hosted instances out of the box. Mattermost previously had some weird thing in regards to your own app for native app notifications, but haven't seen the issue in the most recent versions.
- mgiampapa 2y agoWell, Meta paid 10m for fb.com (and had to promise not to ever get into farming), so I guess threads.com is probably worth the same ballpark to them. Edit, I'm remembering wrong, it was 8.5m.
- apitman 2y agoThat's one way to exit.
- alex_young 2y agoInteresting quote on that one: "The farm bureau has agreed to give us FB.com and we in return have agreed to not sell Farm subsidies." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-pays-85-million-for-fbcom-address/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-pays-85-million-for-fb...
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- amix 2y agoIf you are looking for an alternative that’s even more async than Threads, check out https://twist.com/ https://twist.com/ We (Doist) have been developing it since 2015.
- alberth 2y agoI love twist. It’s so underrated. More should check it out. Note: I’m not affiliated in any way.
- frogulis 2y agoGenuine question - what makes it "more async"? From what I can gather, it has no notification dots or "online" status. Is there also something inherent to the conversation structure that makes it "more async"?
- djbusby 2y agoFor even more async check out email - or even regular post!
- distalx 2y agoI remember using it at a startup around 2017-18. At the time, I thought it was just another tool they were experimenting with. But after moving on to another job, I found myself missing it.
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- alberth 2y agoWith Shopify shutting down threads so quickly, what’s the play here? Use the talent to build chat functionality, so that merchants can add that as a feature to their website?
- meiraleal 2y agoWhat talent? Luck? Whatever need Shopify has requested to chat they can develop easily
- paxys 2y agoI doubt there's a play. Shopify is just hiring a team of smart developers who have a track record of working well with each other, without needing to go through a long recruiting process.
- DancerOfFaran 2y agoLLM-based support chat probably. It's a pretty ripe opportunity to build something analogous to Amazon's support experience, especially when combined with Shop Pay. Putting payment provider, retailers, potentially suppliers, customers and documentation into a single conversational interface will be quite convenient for the end user.
- monetus 2y agoAnyone have a guess on how much they agreed to sell the domain to Meta for?
- sattoshi 2y agoThese acquihire posts read so cheery. Why? You’re killing a product that at least 1 person depended on. Why are you pretending that this is exciting for them?
- sentientslug 2y agoIt’s exciting for the people getting paid
- sattoshi 2y agoClearly, but who is the post for? Is it for their parents, or their customers? It reads like the former.
- egeozcan 2y agoThere was also an attempt on improving office communication from the makers of the Monica crm: https://www.officelife.io/ https://www.officelife.io/ It seems like they have also given up? I guess emails and excel are really enough for most.
- notpushkin 2y agohttps://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
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- ilrwbwrkhv 2y agoWhy is Shopify buying random companies? Their strategy seems off for a while.
- forthwall 2y agoInteresting how all data will be deleted within two weeks (June 18), that seems a bit fast. I guess it prevents rollerover costs for data store.
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoNot to be confused with Threads software that was in conflict with Meta when it started the Instagram-related Threads platform 7 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38072495 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38072495
- reustle 2y agoZuck is surely buying up the domain, and I’m sure those negotiations helped instigate this acquihire. Seems they didn’t have many customers anyway.