Have you seen what is happening with Slack now? It's down for hours. Doesn't it teach businesses that the crucial instant messaging should be self-hosted for privacy & independence on 3rd party? Why would businesses use your hosted product instead of e.g. open source Nextcloud Talk, Element.io or Mattermost on their own server?
Show HN: Emdash – Slack/Zoom alternative for distributed team collaboration
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Re: Show HN: Emdash – Slack/Zoom alternative for distributed team collaboration
#22Have you seen what is happening with Slack now? It's down for hours. Doesn't it teach businesses that the crucial instant messaging should be self-hosted for privacy & independence on 3rd party? Why would businesses use your hosted product instead of e.g. open source Nextcloud Talk, Element.io or Mattermost on their own server?
Absolutely. If your team has the expertise and bandwidth, self-hosting Mattermost or similar tools makes a ton of sense. We may even explore a self-hosted version of emdash in the future.
That said, most customers tell us they’d rather focus their resources on their core business vs manage every tool themselves. Even those who’ve tried self-hosting haven’t necessarily seen better uptime vs Slack.
Re: Show HN: Emdash – Slack/Zoom alternative for distributed team collaboration
#23Great to see more competition in this space - I'm currently on Slack and not happy about it. Here's hoping Emdash can fill the void left by Workplace and get some momentum to put pressure on Slack. It's much needed
> I'm currently on Slack and not happy about it Yeah I heard that Slack is taking a breather this morning...
Heh, yeah that happened right after I made the post above. Fate, it would seem, has a sense of irony :-)
Re: Show HN: Emdash – Slack/Zoom alternative for distributed team collaboration
#24Really cool. Awesome product from a solid team!
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#25I should introduce the rest of the crew. We're a team of builders who have worked together for the better part of the last decade. Neville and I were early engineers on Facebook Ads. Neville later founded Rimeto, which was acquired by Slack. Fred has held various roles driving growth and was an early employee at Facebook, Doordash, and Rimeto. Nick jumped into startups right out of college, joining Rimeto and now div…
pz, what a great username :)
Re: Show HN: Emdash – Slack/Zoom alternative for distributed team collaboration
#26Really like the self-documentation of what the team is working on through the auto summarization and share-out of meeting. Strongly believe in "communication is the job" at tech companies, and with this it doesn't have to feel like a chore.
Thank you for the feedback. That’s exactly the idea. We see it as "write once, share everywhere." Conversations, meetings, and decisions can generate useful context, and having summaries automatically show up right where people are already working saves time down the road.
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#27Very cool -- feels like teams are in "app overload" now with too much context switching. This looks pretty seamless and agree with others -- the summarization is a really nice feature.
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#28One note I have about your pricing page is that you don't explain what a startup or small to midsize team actually is. I would also much rather have a set pricing scheme immediately with a 60-90 day trial period similar to how slack works.
Hi, Fred here – I’m one of the founding team members. Thanks for the comment. First, to the question about team sizes. We view "Startups" as generally teams with Regarding pricing, we haven’t finalized it yet because we’ve prioritized understanding how teams actually use emdash—what works, what doesn’t, and where we should focus. Pricing is important, and we want to get it right. Typical usage patterns, evolving AI a…
"We haven't figured out pricing" sounds like a big turnoff for anyone seriously considering this who wants self service.
Just pick something that's a no brainier for people to try, change it later if you have to. Your biggest risk right now is people walk without giving the product real consideration. Lack of clarity on pricing will do that for a lot of people, even though you are offering a free trial.
Re: Show HN: Emdash – Slack/Zoom alternative for distributed team collaboration
#29Great to see more competition in this space - I'm currently on Slack and not happy about it. Here's hoping Emdash can fill the void left by Workplace and get some momentum to put pressure on Slack. It's much needed
Same here! Slack is… fine. The one catch for Emdash for me is that we are hybrid (3 days in office) and use Zoom Rooms for our conference room are pretty happy with it.
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#30Good luck, the sales cycles for large enterprise to switch from zoom/slack are super long... and I'm sure now that salesforce owns slack they're gonna be giving bundle discounts which will make it even harder to switch.
I'll also note, I've yet to work for a place that would even consider paying for the teams pro stuff, and I haven't seen it at any of our clients either, so I'm really curious to know see how big the market is for this