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by mrjn 3y ago
Talking as an engineer who learnt management by building a startup: Do things. But also, make them visible. I remember my days at Google (first job). I used to just build and build... and had a hard time trying to convey why what I was buil
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by mrjn 3y ago
Thanks! We'll be brainstorming ways of making user presence felt, while keeping it clean.
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by mrjn 3y ago
It's really about choice. In Struct, you can create custom feeds, which can filter threads by channels / users/ tags, etc. You have that choice. In Slack, every one of these entities (and permutations for DMs) stands alone. I
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by mrjn 3y ago
app.struct.ai works very well as website. I use both the website and the desktop app simultaneously often.
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by mrjn 3y ago
You might have found a loophole, ser. Enjoy the exploit!
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by mrjn 3y ago
The Stack is this: - Go - Postgres - OpenAI (biggest bill producer is this) - React / Next.JS - Loops.so for Emails - Imgproxy for handling images - Microsoft E5 for embeddings (not OpenAI) - Typesense for Search (also a user of Struct
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by mrjn 3y ago
Good points. Let me try and address those. 1. Channels for Struct are just groups of people. You engage with a channel, just like you'd engage with a user. You start a thread, and then mention users or channels to define access for tha
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by mrjn 3y ago
Yeah, good point. We have data from orgs who're using Struct. Short story: It's significantly cheaper compared to Slack. Struct charges 9.97 per month. And we only charge for AI usage, not number of users or threads or chats. Base
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by mrjn 3y ago
Yeah, that's what we're going to focus on next. Identify the top 5-10 integrations to build. Would love to learn what integrations you use, and in what capacity. Based on my interactions, it's really only a few integrations t
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by mrjn 3y ago
Thanks! Kudos to Jason (OP). One of the best designers I've had a privilege to work with.
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by mrjn 3y ago
I'm biased. But, hear me out. We're a team of 3, and we think it's way more useful than Slack would have been. As mentioned elsewhere, Struct is replacing two chat platforms (team and community), a task management system, a C
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by mrjn 3y ago
You could create a focused custom feed. For example, I have one for "tasks assigned to me". That's what I set to when I'm focused working. That's the beauty right -- you can control and filter what you see. As oppos
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by mrjn 3y ago
Yeah. We now pick up chats from channels in Slack, and convert them into threads. Somepoint we'd do the same for Discord too. Chats in channels are too diverse to act like threads. Jury is out on how good those threads look.
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by mrjn 3y ago
Founder here. TLDR: AI word is overthrown these days, sorry about that. But, what makes Struct different isn't AI. It's feeds and threads. Longer version: The AI in Struct is, IMO, a balanced approach. Struct is different, not bec
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by mrjn 3y ago
Founder here. Struct is designed for both teams and communities. Because the problems affecting Slack and Discord are the same. We already have a bunch of community features, like publicly indexable knowledge base from threads, public-to-in
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by mrjn 3y ago
Founder here. Jason (OP) and I think about this a lot. The balance of cluttering everyone's names on the left panel, v/s making it feel like you're in the same room as these people. If you look at feed based platforms, they t
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by mrjn 3y ago
Manish, founder here. We intend to keep Struct running. Struct is built with a small of 3: Backend, Designer and Frontend. It's not that capital intensive. We have a roadmap of features that we're excited to get to, combining bo
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by mrjn 3y ago
Founder of Struct here. I looked at Zulip before starting Struct. And I'm sorry -- I don't think it's the same. Threads in Zulip are really sub-channels, and the idea of a unified feed like "All Threads" doesn'
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by mrjn 3y ago
Thanks, techdragon for helping us identify and fix this issue.
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by mrjn 3y ago
Good point. Actually, you can join our Struct org: https://chat.struct.ai/join/DXVTmseDdBkeA6mG Chat there!
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by mrjn 3y ago
Manish, founder here. On Discord, the bot only picks up Discord threads, not the chats in a channel. Could that be it? Unless there's some issue with sync.
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by mrjn 3y ago
Can you send that via reddit, please? j/k
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by mrjn 3y ago
Struct.AI | Founding Frontend Engineer | 120K - 180K / year + 1%-2.5% equity | San Francisco, Remote (US timezone) Chat platforms today are inherently broken. Slack and Discord, the most commonly used chat platforms, while useful for r
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by mrjn 3y ago
Author here. I was looking for a Docker-based server, which can expose a simple endpoint to generate vector embeddings for documents. The solution needs to deal with lengthy documents that exceed the 512-token limit enforced by E5 models. S
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Tesla's $300M AI Cluster Is Going Live(tomshardware.com)
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We implemented serverless full-text search in Rust(grafbase.com)
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Show HN: Automate complicated manual business processes(tooljet.com)
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by mrjn 3y ago
We use Typesense for vector search as well for Struct.ai in production, it works amazingly. I'm surprised the original post doesn't benchmark Typesense.
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The pianist who dared to challenge Beethoven to a musical duel(classicfm.com)
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by mrjn 3y ago
Witnessed first-hand in SF. A cyclist was standing on a zebra crossing waiting to make a left turn (waiting for cars coming from the right to cross over). A car comes from right, makes a left turn (into the same street that the cyclist is a

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