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Twist – Mindful Team Communication

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Re: Twist – Mindful Team Communication

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Post by jensenbox »

mistaken wrote: post #15

Hmm. It seems that these chat applications are more and more becoming like a polished webmail system. Now they've introduced threads, it's searchable forever, you can mail erm. I mean send messages to individuals or even groups. This new technology is amazing. Seriously there is nothing wrong with using e-mail (apart from the dated protocol) and for knowledge sharing your team is better of with some kind of wiki with…

I hate to say it but I concur... mostly.

The idea that is different here is that it is an invite only system - meaning no spam.

The first question that came up for me was 'who do I invite' - I had to think who in the team is an early adopter and would be receptive to trying something new. Then my next thought was to Hangouts them and tell them what I was doing so they did not see an invite for something unknown... then I thought... Why don't I just email them... and lastly... Why am I doing this again? I have already everything I need to talk to them... What is the advantage of this service?

As it stands, I get very little spam.

So what is the value prop?

Re: Twist – Mindful Team Communication

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Post by boundlessdreamz »

amix wrote: post #20

We are also launching an integration with Zapier today: https://zapier.com/zapbook/twist/ And we also have a very powerful API: https://api.twistapp.com/ And we are working on a lot more integrations.

Do you have support for webhooks. Couldn't find any information about that

Re: Twist – Mindful Team Communication

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Post by amix »

boundlessdreamz wrote: post #22
amix wrote: post #20

We are also launching an integration with Zapier today: https://zapier.com/zapbook/twist/ And we also have a very powerful API: https://api.twistapp.com/ And we are working on a lot more integrations.

Do you have support for webhooks. Couldn't find any information about that

Yes, we do. We implement the Resthooks spec. Please see this: https://api.twistapp.com/#integrations-rest-hooks

Re: Twist – Mindful Team Communication

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Post by boundlessdreamz »

amix wrote: post #23
boundlessdreamz wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you have support for webhooks. Couldn't find any information about that

Yes, we do. We implement the Resthooks spec. Please see this: https://api.twistapp.com/#integrations-rest-hooks

I meant incoming webhooks. These are outgoing webhooks.

Re: Twist – Mindful Team Communication

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Post by sametmax »

mmbleh wrote: post #6

Google Wave came out a few years too early...

Na the reason Google wave failed was that the idea was great but the realization sucked.

Most of my friend were unable to understand the UI. The thing was sloooooow. Trying to do anything meaningful would require a lot of tinkering.

Re: Twist – Mindful Team Communication

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Post by bgentry »

I'm really impressed by the attention to detail for a brand new product.

I know they spent a couple years getting to this point, but I can really appreciate the quick, well-designed iOS app, and the native, non-Chromium / non-Electron Mac app that only uses 35MB of RAM and has no noticeable idle CPU draw. It's such a stark contrast with Slack and most of today's pseudo-native apps.

Impressive launch!

Re: Twist – Mindful Team Communication

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Post by mdekkers »

again? this was on HN just recently, but now it is "mindful" - said it then, and will say it again, it looks like email, and find that the hassle of yet another communications tool not worth it in this case (basically email with a default "reply-to-all" permanently jammed in place).
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