Struct

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298points
134comments
#208of 3,515 in 2024
Top 6%of 2024 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

24 positive, 51 neutral or asking, 6 mixed, 20 critical, out of 101 comments about the project. Thread score -0.07.

Idea: 11 for, 13 againstDesign: 3 for, 1 againstPricing: 3 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 3 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Clean design and landing page

    From 2 comments
    • That's one of the best landing pages I've seen recently. Congratulations on the launch!
      vishnumohandas on HN
    • This is killer. Love the idea of focused threads while still having channels. Really like the design of everything, too. Only question: long-term plans? Before I commit a lot of…
      rglover on HN
  • Thread-first approach seen as better than Slack

    From 2 comments
    • Nice, a culmination of everything I hate about Slack and Teams in a single product!
      albru123 on HN
    • This product is way better than Slack IMO! We have so much information lost in Slack and hard to summarize the key insights with so much data dump! Kudos Struct team, what an…
      maxwell201922 on HN
  • Transparent pricing

    From 2 comments

Objections

  • Unified All Threads feed seen as distracting

    From 2 comments
    • > unified feed like "All Threads" I don't understand why I'd need or want this. I saw it in the video and was horrified. Multiple feeds updating as I'm watching them is just too…
      smt88 on HN
    • > We’re forced into clicking through multiple channels just to catch up on our team’s latest updates. Combine this with the always-growing list of new channels, and information…
      stevage on HN
  • Sending chat data to OpenAI raises privacy concerns

    From 2 comments
    • Like the home page - like the animated graphics. Like that you have a section on privacy, quite confused about the statement there though.. like, "you'll only see results from…
      stevenicr on HN
    • 1. OpenAI and the whole baggage of training on company data should be optional. Titles and summaries might not be that important and could be provided by the user. 2. Never ever…
      WA on HN
  • Missing Slack integrations and bot API make switching hard

    From 3 comments
    • Something that has always stopped us from migrating away from Slack is the integrations. We have 10s of integrations on Slack and those are a pain to migrate. Any thoughts or…
      muralimadhu on HN
    • Looks great, but hard to make the swap from slack without apps/bots/api. I'm sure you thought about it, but a slack-compatible bot api will probably really help with adoption.
      danr4 on HN
    • Slack's chat interface feels fine to me. What would prevent me from switching off Slack is losing my Slack integrations/the Slack developer APIs. How does Struct address this?
      marcap7702 on HN
  • Reads like a forum rebrand with AI buzzword

    From 1 comment
    • Congrats for your product ! BTW: I'm old enough to remember the "forums' days"... and actually, it really seemed to me that you just rediscovered forum (you know... threads that…
      olivierduval on HN

Requests

  • Slack-compatible bot API and integrations

    From 2 comments
    • Looks great, but hard to make the swap from slack without apps/bots/api. I'm sure you thought about it, but a slack-compatible bot api will probably really help with adoption.
      danr4 on HN
    • Something that has always stopped us from migrating away from Slack is the integrations. We have 10s of integrations on Slack and those are a pain to migrate. Any thoughts or…
      muralimadhu on HN
  • Web client

    From 1 comment
  • Self-hosting or bring-your-own model

    From 2 comments
    • I really like the UI, it's exactly how I use and share notes within my colleges for years with my current system. Is there anyway that I can bring my own model ( integrating with…
      nXqd on HN
    • Like the home page - like the animated graphics. Like that you have a section on privacy, quite confused about the statement there though.. like, "you'll only see results from…
      stevenicr on HN
  • Thread forking across chats

    From 1 comment
    • > You can also select a bunch of chats in a thread and fork them into a new thread. We'd maintain links between threads. Coming soon. Just want to chime in and say this is an…
      grncdr on HN

Questions

  • Long-term plans and funding

    From 1 comment
    • This is killer. Love the idea of focused threads while still having channels. Really like the design of everything, too. Only question: long-term plans? Before I commit a lot of…
      rglover on HN
  • How tags and channels work

    From 1 comment
    • Countless tools have promised to highlight "what's worth my attention". None of them have worked for me or my team. What's different on Struct? A few questions I jotted down…
      vatican_banker on HN
  • Whether it can be used for SSO and enterprise rollout

    From 1 comment
    • While I think this has promises, how can I convince my big corpo that uses slack to switch? Are there any slow rollout plan so people can try and see if they like it?
      Charon77 on HN

Alternatives named

  • Zulip

    From 2 comments
    • Can’t recommend enough Zulip. First-class topics, tools for organizing messages between streams & topics, open-source self-hostable, no engagement of ML out of the box (but…
      strogonoff on HN
    • I was about to say the same thing - I use Zulip at current employment - and after you get used to it it’s pretty great software that already solves all the problems struct aims…
      kikki on HN
  • Slack

    From 1 comment
    • This is one of the first Slack competitors that has caught my attention. I really think you're on to something here. I have one thought after watching the video (other than a…
      n42 on HN
  • Discord

    From 1 comment
    • This is awesome. Discord is the worst for trying to search and follow threads of information. Seems like I'm always answering the same questions over and over again.
      poorman on HN
  • Matrix

    From 1 comment
    • Couldn't it be a Matrix client ? Else, a new silo is born.
      maelito on HN

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