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Re: Show HN: Chat Simply – Group chat for everyone

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Post by nchapman » Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 7:14 PM UTC

trapper_jon wrote: post #10

@nchapman Looks very great. Could you reach out to me @ jonkotthoff@gmail.com? I have some feedback and may be able to get you some funding/business partnership.

Thanks will do!

Re: Show HN: Chat Simply – Group chat for everyone

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Post by johnernaut » Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 7:17 PM UTC

Awesome job guys! This interface is super sleek. Can I ask what's powering the back-end?

Re: Show HN: Chat Simply – Group chat for everyone

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Post by _zen » Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 9:04 PM UTC

Any interest in Linux? This looks like a Skype replacement, but our developers all have Ubuntu machines.

Re: Show HN: Chat Simply – Group chat for everyone

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Post by nchapman » Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 9:40 PM UTC

johnernaut wrote: post #12

Awesome job guys! This interface is super sleek. Can I ask what's powering the back-end?

Thanks! It's Backbone.js on the front-end (with lots of help from the amazing strophe.js), Rails for the REST API, node.js for lots of supporting services, ejabberd for XMPP, and MySQL for storage. It's one of those problems that seemed like it was going to be simple to solve and then wasn't (as usual) so there are quite a few moving parts to bring the whole experience together.

Re: Show HN: Chat Simply – Group chat for everyone

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Post by nchapman » Thu, Feb 20, 2014, 9:45 PM UTC

_zen wrote: post #13

Any interest in Linux? This looks like a Skype replacement, but our developers all have Ubuntu machines.

The good news is that it works great in the browser, so it should work really well in Ubuntu. We support desktop notifications in Chrome and Firefox. The desktop app is based on Chromium so it should be fairly trivial to get it working on Linux in the not too distant future.