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team chat
SHOW HN2015
350points
90comments
#36of 2,565 in 2015
Top 2%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
15 positive, 18 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 7 critical, out of 42 comments about the project. Thread score +0.19.
Idea: 6 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 3 againstExecution: 1 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Open source and self-hosted, good for privacy and internal regulation
From 2 comments
Very nice work! And thanks so much for making it open source. Our company is always looking for an open-source solution that would let us move off of Hangouts, and this might…
Brendinooo on HNAwesome stuff @hhaidar! I'm sure a bunch of people will love the fact that logs and data exist on their servers. I'm sure it'll resolve some privacy/internal regulation concerns.…
onassar on HN
Easy one-click Heroku deploy
From 2 comments
+1 for the demo. If there's a 1click2heroku script for this, it will be golden~
ledzep2 on HNi like the auto heroku deploy. brilliant move by heroku. a note - in chrome canery the browser crushes after login.
sagivo on HN
Looks great and promising
From 2 comments
This looks great. Thanks for making it open-source. I've tried other self-hosted chat apps, but this one looks promising. IRC integration would be great. :) When I was…
alfg on HNThis looks amazing - I recently had to add chat functionality to a web service (self-hosted) and was very much surprised at the crappy options out there. I ended up going with…
misiti3780 on HN
Objections
Missing private/direct messages
From 2 comments
Very nice work! And thanks so much for making it open source. Our company is always looking for an open-source solution that would let us move off of Hangouts, and this might…
Brendinooo on HNThis is really great. Two big missing features preventing us from switching away from Slack are direct messages and mobile push notifications. The latter is hard to do: push is…
sinak on HN
Mobile push notifications hard with self-hosting
From 2 comments
This is really great. Two big missing features preventing us from switching away from Slack are direct messages and mobile push notifications. The latter is hard to do: push is…
sinak on HNThere are basically two options and they both suck. Either publish one app and distribute the push notification cert (terrible idea) or each hosted site needs it's own cert and…
thedufer on HN
Heroku deploy gave errors
From 1 comment
I just deployed to Heroku with the button and the home page gives me a "Moved temporarily". Later a 503 application error.
fiatjaf on HN
Looks too much like Slack
From 1 comment
This is great, good work. I just have one small quibble: did it HAVE to look identical to Slack? Branding and all, you know.
bovermyer on HN
Requests
Private/direct messages
From 2 comments
Very nice work! And thanks so much for making it open source. Our company is always looking for an open-source solution that would let us move off of Hangouts, and this might…
Brendinooo on HNThis is really great. Two big missing features preventing us from switching away from Slack are direct messages and mobile push notifications. The latter is hard to do: push is…
sinak on HN
IRC integration
From 2 comments
This looks great. Thanks for making it open-source. I've tried other self-hosted chat apps, but this one looks promising. IRC integration would be great. :) When I was…
alfg on HNIndeed very interesting open-source application! I agree IRC integration would be really nice, it's one of my favourite features on Slack, allowing me to communicate with my team…
cellover on HN
Search functionality
From 1 comment
Any plans for search functionality?
calebm on HN
Mobile push notifications
From 1 comment
This is really great. Two big missing features preventing us from switching away from Slack are direct messages and mobile push notifications. The latter is hard to do: push is…
sinak on HN
Questions
Can it connect with IRC clients
From 1 comment
I was about to say "come on, nothing beats IRC", but then I remembered how I always wanted IRC to have LDAP, XMPP, and a REST API. So... can I connect with my IRC client?
hughes on HN
Does it support markdown and syntax highlighting
From 1 comment
Could anyone tell me whether this supports markdown and whether it supports syntax highlighting? (kanban too if anyone knows). I tried reading on the respective github project…
mijoharas on HN
How avatars work (Gravatar)
From 1 comment
Is there a way to change user avatars? The screenshot has them but I can't find it in 0.3.2. BTW the wiki page for Docker references release/0.3.0, but you don't have that branch…
Poiesis on HN
Alternatives named
Kandan
From 1 comment
There is also Kandan App. https://github.com/kandanapp/kandan
qznc on HN
Gitter
From 1 comment
For github projects, I've been using http://gitter.im I've found the integration to be awesome and well thought-out.
smhx on HN
JabbR
From 1 comment
Something similar https://github.com/JabbR/JabbR
mandeepj on HN
Converse.js
From 1 comment
This looks amazing - I recently had to add chat functionality to a web service (self-hosted) and was very much surprised at the crappy options out there. I ended up going with…
misiti3780 on HN
Waartaa
From 1 comment
You can have a look at Waartaa - https://github.com/waartaa/waartaa
sayanchowdhury on HN