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Slack is extremely expensive for large "community" chat rooms. If you could handle a several-thousand user room and offer full functionality for a fraction of S
by empressplay 11y ago
Slack is extremely expensive for large "community" chat rooms. If you could handle a several-thousand user room and offer full functionality for a fraction of Slack's price you might have something that could get some traction.
- amelius 11y agoCould you describe a usecase for that?
- danielrmay 11y agoLet's see: - Large open source projects - MOOCs with many students (Taken from discussion of this post from yesterday): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9754626 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9754626
- ex3ndr 11y agoYeah! I saw this post today and we thinking about building something for communities. May be some app for easy find right group chat (Android global group, hacker news group, SF Local Tech group, etc...). May be someone know such apps? I try to find it, but no one tries to implement this.
- rorykoehler 11y agoI was going to suggest contacting freecodecamp.com and seeing if they would like to partner with you to develop a product that suits their use case.
- amelius 11y agoWhy would latency be a practical issue on such a platform? It sounds to me that this use-case is more like a public forum than a chatting solution.
- jensnockert 11y agoUser groups, open source communities, game clans, etc.
- jorangreef 11y agoSlack is also not exactly just chat. It's actually a whole eco system of features and polish that would be hard to replicate.
- bdcravens 11y agoVery true, but for some, it is just chat (in the same sense that Github isn't just a source code repo or Freshbooks isn't just invoicing - there will always be a subset of those users that don't know or care about non-core features)
- danellis 11y agoWhat would the user experience of several thousand people in a room be? If a significant number are talking, it would be a stream impossible to keep up with, but it makes no sense to arbitrarily choose users to partition into different channels or rooms.
- jimktrains2 11y agoThere are freenode channels with 1,700 or more people in them. It works because most people don't talk most of the time, they're listening or just waiting for someone to ping them about something specific.