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- jqueryin 13y agoI'm having a hard time with the juxtaposition of upvotes to negative comment ratio. I was in the latter camp, ready to write a mini rant on "WTF another chat app?". I found it more interesting that people are expressing interest in this; demonstrating a complete polar opposite of the comments. Is this a situation of people upvoting because they abhor the idea?
- BryanB55 13y agoI upvoted because I like seeing new projects/apps on hackernews and this one appears as though they did put a good amount of time into building the site. Sure it's been done before but most things worth doing have been. Although I can't think of many problems that hipchat or flowdock do not solve. I'm curious to hear what others think is still an open web app market? Or what category of products can still be improved upon?
- jqueryin 13y agoIf you want to truly add value, find large businesses to help. They're riddled with old software and inefficient processes. It's highly feasible to write custom software applications that can save larger corporations millions of dollars with a minimal amount of development time. The hardest part is: 1) Getting them to recognize this. 2) Coaxing out the pain points. 3) Bypassing their bureaucracy (chain of command).
- wehadfun 13y agoHow do you find out what problems the business has?
- gutnor 13y agoLarge business also means supporting old stuff. You can stop dreaming of HTML5 and start coding stuff working in IE7. Also, weirdo DMZ, weirdo User Right, weirdo proxy settings, ... It is complicated, you have little clients that each represent a significant fraction of your revenue. They will pay well but drain your development team in pointless, unportable, customisations. Large businesses is not a sexy world and companies catering their need are similarly not sexy.
- frossie 13y agoPeople upvote it because it because (a) product beta launches are rightly HN fodder and (b) it saves the story in your account so it serves as a "I'm busy now I'll try this tonight".
- plg 13y agoanother one?
- Blahah 13y agoIs this solving some problem that Hipchat, Campfire, Slack, Kandan, Unison, etc. don't already solve?
- bhouston 13y agoAnd asana, flowdock, etc... I guess it is a massive market and thus there is a lot to go around.
- ballard 13y agoWe used to use hipchat (campfire clone) but it was hard to follow lengthy conversations and favorite details for later. Flowdock for our uses is a zillion times better and can integrate with basically anything. Asana is also amazing I wouldn't compete in either of the spaces because it's so competitive and the apps are better than they were 5 years ago. 10x better would require so much cash and time, for the possibility of not capturing enough market to be viable.
- debacle 13y agoThe problem with all of those services is a lack of a strong desktop client that isn't just their web app inside a browser container.
- untog 13y ago
- nnnnni 13y agoYet again. https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/ Also, does it annoy anyone else when they don't even put a small amount of text telling what a program/service does on the front page? I don't want to watch some video where people fawn over their great new service. I just want to quickly read what it does and move on (or sign up or download, whichever is appropriate).
- gkya 13y ago> Also, does it annoy anyone else when they don't even put a small amount of text telling what a program/service does on the front page? Annoys the heck out of me. Wish every front page was like YC's, or Deck networks (no sarcasm, quite serious). I do not know if most <whoever responsible for company website frontpage> are idiots, or is this what sells, and the idiot is me. edit: responsible for, not from.
- ballard 13y agoLaunching an app on HN? TL;DR <5 words
- rplnt 13y agoWhat do you mean? Isn't it clear? > Your files and messages. Always in sync. On all devices. Team communication is now a simple, common-sense thing. Make it yours.
- ballard 13y agoIt's clear after you spend 3 seconds on their site. There should be a demo or UI mockups without hitting play on a video (which shows no UI) so folks can see if it will work for them. It comes off that it is actual vaporware right now even if it's not.
- bronson 13y agoApple, Google, and Microsoft all promise this, as do a ton of smaller companies. So no, this buzzphrase doesn't differentiate fleep much at all. Apologies if I missed some subtle sarcasm. :) That said, their homepage seems passable to me. Maybe they added some content in the past few hours?
- kawsper 13y agoI like how Flowdock does this. Using threads (or flows) within the same chatroom have really helped our organisation communicate better. Our development team moved from Campfire to Hipchat, and then from Hipchat to Flowdock, afterwards we created rooms for the other departments as an expirement, and we couldn't be happier. No more URGENT emails, or direct interruptions, its all there in the chat.
- lnanek2 13y ago...i don't want another chat solution at this point. it doesn't matter what you offer me or do different.
- normloman 13y agoLot of time wasted reinventing the wheel.
- 0x420 13y agomy co-worker and i use kato.im for this kind of thing. fleep looks nice, but it doesn't highlight source code, which is kind of a deal breaker for us.
- livejamie 13y agoWe've been using Slack, you should check it out.
- adhipg 13y agoI don't see a point of trying it out unless there's a pricing model described - and I can't find any on their site.
- extesy 13y agoIt's free while in beta: https://fleep.io/faq https://fleep.io/faq
- untog 13y agoYou use it when it's in beta, get the team used to it, build workflow around it... then find out how much it costs? No thanks.
- dwightgunning 13y agoDefinitely a turn off with anything that has a steep learning curve or high switching costs. I.e. pretty much everything in productivity and communication.
- devilirium 13y agoFeels like Google Wave.
- lerouxb 13y agoHow does this compete with poot and fweeep? (sorry)
- hengheng 13y agoCan I host it?
- explorigin 13y agoThis! There are so many of these things but "Can I host it?" Is the one thing that I don't know of a solution that allows it. Seems like we need an open source one.
- klaruz 13y agoI just posted a similar comment above. It seems like the time is right for an open source advanced chat server. Maybe there already is one, I just don't know of it yet.
- joshstrange 13y agoI've never used it but it looks like it might be what you are looking for: https://github.com/kandanapp/kandan https://github.com/kandanapp/kandan
- hengheng 13y agoVery cool, I'm looking into this. Thanks!
- hengheng 13y agoCan I host it?
- TomiHiltunen 13y agoWhat about Flowdock?
- netcan 13y agoThis seems like a potentially useful app but I don't see how I get started using it. I don't want to start inviting everyone I know. I still need Skype, Basecamp and email running while I work as well. I still need whatsapp, viber, Facebook & Google hangouts on my phone + sms and regular calling on my phone. Everyone seems to have a different way of contacting me. If this could be an sms or email client or if it could pull in 2-3 of those services I might start using it. Seems nicer than most of them. For now I'm just hoping I don't have 2-3 people that want to fleep me instead of Skype. I have enough places I can accidentally overlook a bit of text from someone I know.
- ithinkso 13y agoLittle bit offtopic: recently every startup website I've seen here looks almost exactly the same, especially those with .io domain. Is there some kind of a template or technology that is being used to fastly develop those or is this just a trend?If it is could someone link to some resources about how to create those? Thanks.
- goblin89 13y agoI'd also ask about those videos—they tend to be quite neat. I wonder which studios do that (are there many?) and for how much approximately.
- sssilver 13y ago+1, does anyone know what software is primarily used to produce this kind of videos?
- goblin89 13y agoI asked a friend, he says they can be using Adobe After Effects (his preference) or Final Cut Pro. I was surprised, but apparently these tools are fit to do this kind of animation. The narrative can be a more difficult part, unless the video involves much custom graphics (this one appears to do a decent job reusing a few primitives). By narrative I mean not just the voice, which I was told is often done by outsourcing to studios out there, but the script in general. Just my 2 cents, maybe someone can give more info.
- abjorn 13y ago...or you could just use IRC
- livejamie 13y agoWe've been using Slack at work and we haven't turned back.
- ElCapitanMarkla 13y agoWe just started using Slack a couple of weeks ago. Pretty good so far