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Show HN: Lechat – team chat for developers
- aren55555 14y agoLike the pricing page. Simple.
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- aeontech 14y agoLooks clean and simple. What's your backend infrastructure? Didn't see much technical detail in the FAQ :)
- lechat 14y agoThanks! Erlang + websockets + Postgres
- aeontech 14y agoWhat are you using for full-text search, anything unusual or just postgres built-in search?
- lomowin 14y agoI can also see nginx from http headers.
- lechat 14y agoTrue. nginx as well.
- ajacksified 14y agoNeat. My friends and I switched from ejabberd to Prosody[1], a Lua XMPP server; Lua is quite a bit easier to use than Erlang (unless you are already an Erlang grandwizard), so writing new plugins is a breeze with prosody. Of course, ejabberd already has a lot of plugins written, so lots of benefits there as well. Good luck! Hosted xmpp could be executed really well. [1] http://prosody.im/ http://prosody.im/
- luiperd 14y agoNice. I was at first very confused about the support room chat, thought it was just a page to help you get started. Turns out it's a support chat for the app. Very nice though.
- mapleoin 14y agoStill no features that I don't have in IRC+emacs. Except for the code highlighter/formatting which is ok, but not enough.
- lechat 14y agoWhat about search + multiple chat windows on same screen?
- mapleoin 14y agoI can search an emacs IRC buffer (it's just like searching a text file) or if I want to search everything I can just grep in my logs directory and get search results in emacs which I can then grep some more or easily copy paste to another buffer where I have a file open or a colleague who I'm chatting with. For multiple windows, I can split my emacs in however many windows I want horizontally and vertically and switch around with whatever key bindings I want.
- lomowin 14y agoonly problem with that is to find someone else who knows what emacs and irc are and how to use it, but anyone can use web-app or mobile-app.
- grishick 14y agoword
- grishick 14y agowe even have our marketing guy use lechat. Try making your marketing use emacs ;)
- shurane 14y agoThe finance team at appnexus use ipython internally to scrape files, create aggregates, etc. I dunno, it's just about teaching them about it at the right level. Don't swamp them with thousands of details, and don't leave them without a lifeline to call upon. Although this is assuming they want to be competent.
- citricsquid 14y agoThe fake names are disconcerting for a product that will handle sensitive information (chats). (edit: unless 2 co-founders are genuinely named Bob Smith and John Doe, in which case maybe consider changing your names :p)
- lechat 14y agoSorry. We'll put up our real names soon. We're legit though, I swear!
- lechat 14y agoI kind of wish those were our real names, would be awesome.
- trumbitta2 14y agoTheese guys are really serious about ninjitzu. See Robert Smith here: http://www.whois.com/whois/lechat.im http://www.whois.com/whois/lechat.im
- aeontech 14y agobtw, I recommend you change the code font-face order of Monaco,Menlo,Consolas,"Courier New",monospace; to Menlo,Consolas,Monaco,"Courier New",monospace; this way the nicer system-specific fonts will actually work, right now everything gets rendered in Monaco since it's universally available, and the nicer fonts are never used. Also, maybe pick a more contrasting scheme for the syntax highlighting in code, right now it's very nearly indistinguishable from plaintext...
- lebski88 14y agoAre your chat logs encrypted and suitably protected? Losing your chat logs could be very damaging for a company - knowing that logs are safe is a required feature for us.
- zhenya_k 14y agoWe're a team of five (two work remotely) at Citybot -- Lechat works very well for us. History is always there, no ridiculous kissing smiley faces (hello Skype), no ridiculous out of sync notifications that are months old (hello Skype). We've been beta testing it for about a month and it's been making our lives easier and communication clearer. The support is right on. The speed with which the Lechat team adds useful features is phenomenal. Never at expense of quality. Would love to see the native clients, and they say they're coming soon. I absolutely totally recommend it. Try it out!
- avree 14y agoDoes this work with XMPP? Also, any chance of Pivotal Tracker integration? I've tried HipChat, Jaconda, Hall, Skype, etc... still trying to find something that works well for our team at Getaround.
- lechat 14y agoHi there. We'll integrate with Pivotal Tracker - we're sort of implementing integrations on demand.
- lechat 14y agoDoes not work with XMPP. We're opting for high-quality native clients for everything (coming soon).
- avree 14y agoBut you're chat for developers! You're never going to be able to offer the level of customization people get out of Adium/Messages/their chat client of choice. Facebook took this approach with Facebook Chat but eventually offered XMPP. Curious to hear what value you think the native client approach would offer.
- grishick 14y agoWe have a distributed team of 4 engineers in 3 different locations. We have been using lechat.im for the last month and it has improved the information flow dramatically. Before lechat.im we tried hangouts, Skype and gTalk and those all fall short of the features that matter for a distributed team. Things that I love about lechat: search, SVN and git hooks (checking go into a separate room as messages), notifications, chat history.
- scottmagdalein 14y agoLove the pricing page.
- demandingdata 14y agoany plans to let us own our data - as in a hosted offering? The idea of my teams chats being owned only by me appeals
- lechat 14y agoYeah, we're working on an appliance version of the product.
- thesharp 14y agoGuys, make a twitter account so we can easily catch on with the updates.
- lechat 14y agohttp://twitter.com/lechat_im http://twitter.com/lechat_im We'll link to it from the site soon.
- shatlovsky 14y agoGreat job, guys! Lechat is surprisingly powerful despite its lightweight and simple ui.
- spovzner 14y agoWe've been using lechat for the last few weeks and we are very happy with it. The UI is simple and clean. Fast history search is the killer feature for us. A number of nice UI details really show that this chat was developed by developers for developers.
- darwinwidjaja 14y agoLooks cool, let me try it with our distributed team (shanghai and bangalore) - 7 people team.