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SHOW HN2013
243points
109comments
#52of 1,739 in 2013
Top 3%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
21 positive, 22 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 18 critical, out of 64 comments about the project. Thread score +0.05.
Idea: 8 for, 4 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 7 againstExecution: 0 for, 6 againstDesign: 5 for, 1 againstPricing: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful for technical teams, chat tied to repos
From 3 comments
Signed up immediately. Very promising, especially if the history stays up there for anyone who joins the "repo" discussion later on. This could be really important for bigger…
aram on HNThis is awesome. I can see this being massively useful. Who wants to use GMail for a chat? Coming from someone who uses Github with a few people, this would be great. I'd even…
odonnellryan on HNI want to pay money for this. A chat service with built-in GitHub integration including issue and file referencing sounds like a fantastic tool for teams building using GitHub.…
rmccue on HN
Polished landing page design
From 2 comments
The landing page looks really slick. I was wondering, how did you create the design for it? I'm a programmer and my web design skills are limited to installing bootstrap, and I'm…
nnd on HNNice one! This is a great repurposing of your existing product.
timlindinct on HN
Objections
Requires read-only GitHub OAuth access for signup
From 3 comments
Looks pretty neat. I went to signup, but then noticed that they require commit access to my public repos. Why do you need this permission to integrate links to the code and…
conorgil145 on HNHm, "signing up" by providing read-only OAuth access to my GitHub account is... fascinating. :-) Very clever way to make signups easy, relevant to the interest you're trying to…
mfenniak on HNNot the parent, but I'm reluctant to give a website access to an account I care about just for a trial. If I know that I want to use your service, sure, but not if I just want to…
pseut on HN
Non-technical teammates would not use it
From 1 comment
Beautiful, but unfortunately it wouldn't be appropriate for my non-technical teammates, so I cannot see it beating out hipchat. I love the concept though and I can see this being…
buf on HN
Signup linked to Troupe account without consent
From 2 comments
So you're pushing my information between two different services. Both of which happen to be provided by the same organization. It's kinda convenient, but still does not feel…
stigi on HNPlease make it so we can delete our accounts. I signed in for gitter because I like what I read and wanted to be on the waiting list, but when I got the message saying about…
Killswitch on HN
Requests
FreeNode IRC integration
From 2 comments
(Edit: I initially thought this was _from_ GitHub. Apparently it's not, so please disregard the nagging below. It is a cool idea, but if GitHub did this, I'd have different…
fhd2 on HNThis would be the killer feature to add. Users should be able to communicate to freenode, and vice versa, while being able to do all of the management functions.
gault8121 on HN
Hubot integration
From 2 comments
Looks great, just needs some emojis and hubot integration and I'm sold!
andrewnez on HNAnother immediate signup. Would like to echo @davman's comment about showing the interest count. It would be interesting to watch the needle, so to speak. A +1 for Hubot…
j-hernandez on HN
Open source the code
From 2 comments
Will it be open source?
coherentpony on HNAny chance that Gitter will be on github so we can help out with it?
hoverbear on HN
Questions
Is it open source
From 2 comments
Is it open-sourced?
daGrevis on HNWill it be open source?
coherentpony on HN
What is the tech stack
From 1 comment
Great work! Could you share about what stack/technologies used to build it? Trying to learn how to choose the best platform for each solution.
JamesAdir on HN
Alternatives named
Kato
From 3 comments
Check out Kato, chat for Github is live http://kato.quora.com/Free-Kato-For-Open-GitHub-Repos
bbthorson on HNA wonderful chat service called Kato offers a very similar chat <=> github integration http://kato.quora.com/Free-Kato-For-Open-GitHub-Repos
cookrn on HNWe've already built this at Kato http://kato.quora.com/Free-Kato-For-Open-GitHub-Repos
bbthorson on HN
HipChat
From 2 comments
Beautiful, but unfortunately it wouldn't be appropriate for my non-technical teammates, so I cannot see it beating out hipchat. I love the concept though and I can see this being…
buf on HNHipChat also has a free tier (for teams of 5 or smaller). https://www.hipchat.com/pricing
graue on HN
IRC on FreeNode
From 2 comments
(Edit: I initially thought this was _from_ GitHub. Apparently it's not, so please disregard the nagging below. It is a cool idea, but if GitHub did this, I'd have different…
fhd2 on HNChat apps come and go... and there I am on IRC. I hang out with lots of people on github there. Why would I use this over IRC with the client of my choice? Build an IRC client…
dreamdu5t on HN