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Leaving my job & starting my own thing
- stanleydrew 17y agoI congratulate him for starting his own thing, but it's going to be very hard to get me to leave my google apps group chat. Transcripts are saved and searchable alongside my email. I do wish they'd support xmpp persistent rooms though.
- swombat 17y agoSounds good. I signed up. Campfire deserves to be superseded. Somehow I always thought Mibbit would be the one to do it, but I guess not.
- kevindication 17y agoI found mibbit painful to use. It was just easier to fire up x-chat. A winner here needs to be as easy as possible.
- axod 17y agoIf you have time to list a few (Either here or email tech@mibbit.com) I'd be interested in what you found painful.
- axod 17y agoI think Mibbit has a few more users than Campfire ;) So in quite a lot of ways, I believe it has superseded Campfire. That said, still plenty more to be done... Nice to have more entrants to the 'webchat' space in any event :D PS. Latex support is cool! http://www.mibbit.com/tex.png http://www.mibbit.com/tex.png
- mrshoe 17y agoWe agree, and we think http://shoptalkapp.com http://shoptalkapp.com will be the one to do it. ;)
- sachinag 17y agoWhy? (Remember, I'm a business guy, not a tech genius. It seems to work fine enough with the logs.)
- swombat 17y agoIt's not a user-centric app. For example, since it charges for storage, it provides no way to quickly scan the logs and remove large attachments. It's missing a lot of features which would make it more useful, such as some sort of way to flag people. When you have a few people on a channel, if you want someone to get a specific message, it's not possible to ensure that with the current campfire.
- edw519 17y agoIt goes without saying and I'm sure you already know it, but it's so important that it needs to be said (again): Get something out there, sooner rather than later. Many of us have been there. We want to make something so good that we just want to add "one more thing" before we release. Next thing you know, it's a year later and we wonder where the time went. I imagine you guys are just too saavy to let that happen. Good luck!
- charlesju 17y agoFree startup idea for you: IRC as a service.
- petercooper 17y agoTo provide some context, Marc is the guy behind the Create Your Own Programming Language e-book/screencast discussed recently on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=813133 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=813133
- akmiller 17y agoSeems like, when it comes to group chat, Google Wave is going to be the 800lb gorilla in the room.
- tonystubblebine 17y agoI don't understand what improvement this app is bringing. All he says is that he's disappointed in Campfire. There are more people in the comments here saying Campfire needs to be superseded. Why? My business uses Campfire in place of an office and it works great. We make heavy use of the api to generate notifications of completed work (like a passively updated Yammer). It's so important to me though, that I could easily be convinced to switch. But nobody seems to be able to say why I would want to. Even in the comments here, there are people talking about Mibbit and Shoptalkapp without saying why.
- axod 17y agoHi, I wrote Mibbit. For me, last time I used campfire, it was pretty minimalist. That's great if 'chat' is all you need, but it seems like there's a ton of different use cases, and an absolute TON of feature suggestions. A lot of it may also come down to taste. Some people like minimalism, some don't. >> "There are more people in the comments here saying Campfire needs to be superseded. Why?" everything needs superseding at some point, it's how things improve. Surely. Unless they are actively superseding themselves with new versions. You can't really stand still. Is campfire still being developed and improved upon? Is it really the best it can be? What features did they add in the last month? There's certainly space for a lot of webchat apps, and I'm skeptical that campfire is 'the best webchat can be' (And neither is Mibbit for that matter). I can't speak for the other webchat developers, but in my case, working on mibbit is just plain fun. It's somewhere I can think up fun new features and plug them in. Like the recent addition of flags/timezones in the user list (patent pending) so you know where/when people are. And (after seeing an example on HN ;) the addition of LaTeX rendering).
- tonystubblebine 17y agoThat's a great story for all of the entrepreneurs that read HN, including me, but I was asking as a potential customer. So far the customer story for all three of these products has been pretty weak. I read the comments and I visited the sites. The thing that stood out for me most was that all three products think Campfire is bad. If I don't think that, does that mean your products aren't for me? I'm not trying to cause an argument, but wanted to give some honest feedback, that you guys could work on the customer pitch.
- ams6110 17y agoI guess I'm either getting old or just have a different mindset. I think of chat as as enormous distraction to getting work done. I am one of those people who disables intrusive alerts from email and anything else that might lurk in the system tray and interrupt me. I check my email a couple of times a day, and generally sign off of chat services if I want to concentrate. Good luck to you though; clearly a lot of people have a different view on this.