Do you have any plans for self-hosting or E2EE?
I'm part of a group working on a similar knowledge wiki product that's open-source and self hostable, you might find it interesting: https://github.com/outline/outline
Launch HN: Slite (YC W18) – Note App for Teams
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Re: Launch HN: Slite (YC W18) – Note App for Teams
#22Looking at this page, https://slite.com/use-cases , I feel like this kind of product is an anti-pattern. The reason that it's hard to find things in slack or docs is because these apps do not well understand the underlying structure of the data and so are relegated to either full-text search, or some sort of naive clustering algorithm. Although Slack has made some advances here - such as adding context-specific butto…
That's a super interesting point and I fully agree those examples are not well suited for all teams, especially not for larger ones.
I still think having all the information compartmentalized is a waste of time. The integrations that we are developing aim at solving this : Slite will integrate with your github documentation and your Greenhouse pipe so that the members that need the information but don't use the tool everyday (typical in an hiring process) can see the information while those whom it's the job will keep using it as usual.
Re: Launch HN: Slite (YC W18) – Note App for Teams
#23Another note app? I get that this is a massive problem space but with dropbox, notion, google and loads of other companies working on the exact same thing.... I have a hard time understanding why Y Combinator accepts companies like these. Either way, excited to try it out; sounds like you've put a lot of BS&T into this.
Indeed, why would investors throw money at another note app? Data, is my guess. Existing note apps perhaps don't collect, package, and act on (sell) that data as well as they could. I would not be surprised if that's a major component of any new company that just looks to be re-hashing existing companies. Their "new" approach is an improved UI, and massive data collection.
Short answer : absolutely not, you can have a look at our privacy policy here : https://slite.com/privacy.
On the why investors would fund us, I think the "note" aspect of it is misleading: it's simply giving an ease of use to our users, but the core of slite is the team aspect of it, and our will is to solve knowledge sharing in teams. While this is not solved, clearly investors will fund projects like Slite.
Re: Launch HN: Slite (YC W18) – Note App for Teams
#24Another note app? I get that this is a massive problem space but with dropbox, notion, google and loads of other companies working on the exact same thing.... I have a hard time understanding why Y Combinator accepts companies like these. Either way, excited to try it out; sounds like you've put a lot of BS&T into this.
Another note app ...... with 4000 teams using the product
Re: Launch HN: Slite (YC W18) – Note App for Teams
#25Your templates feature is useful and seems to be missing in most notes apps I've looked at. We are looking for a tool to create our playbooks in and then track the execution of instances of those plays. For example, a "onboarding playbook" can be cloned for each instance of a hire.
Similarly, we and many other companies have their own custom project lifecycle which would be a useful template to be able to create and track for each project.
Re: Launch HN: Slite (YC W18) – Note App for Teams
#26Congrats Chris ! So many things achieved since last year. I'm impressed. Keep it up !
Re: Launch HN: Slite (YC W18) – Note App for Teams
#27I like the concept. IMO, the keys are going to be 1.) Showing how you differ from Slack 2.)simplifying, I'm already overwhelmed but I get what you are trying to do. and 3.)Ubiquity of the templates. Make it easy to make, clone, share, track them.
Edit: A few small quips. Audit how you use the word public. That's going to scare people. I assume you mean make the channel read/write for other members of my slite, not the public at large.
Someone else had this idea in the comments, I would also second the motion that adding controlled fields (select from drop down) could help with templates.
Good luck!
Re: Launch HN: Slite (YC W18) – Note App for Teams
#28Congrats Chris! Look forward to trying it. But as of now, I’m getting this error. {"data":null,"errors":{"message":"Cannot destructure property `MAILCHIMP_API_KEY` of 'undefined' or 'null'."}}
Super sorry about that, we'll fix that asap! This is an issue normaly just on the mobile site, you can give it a try on the desktop in the meantime
It's fixed, again sorry about that!
Re: Launch HN: Slite (YC W18) – Note App for Teams
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indeed, why would investors throw money at another note app? Data, is my guess. Existing note apps perhaps don't collect, package, and act on (sell) that data as well as they could. I would not be surprised if that's a major component of any new company that just looks to be re-hashing existing companies. Their "new" approach is an improved UI, and massive data collection.
Short answer : absolutely not, you can have a look at our privacy policy here : https://slite.com/privacy . On the why investors would fund us, I think the "note" aspect of it is misleading: it's simply giving an ease of use to our users, but the core of slite is the team aspect of it, and our will is to solve knowledge sharing in teams. While this is not solved, clearly investors will fund projects like Slite.
Sure enough looks like your privacy policy explicitly states that 3rd parties aren't going to be receiving our PERSONAL data. Thanks for the clarification. I think that covers one's worries about personal (identifiable data).
My point was more about data that is no longer personal. Couldn't you for example still collect and run analytics on user data, which you could sell to 3rd parties as generalized "hey people are talking about your product X"?
For instance maybe you track discussions about specific tools in the tech industry... Let's take IDEs as an example. You could build a portfolio of useful data to Microsoft about the sentiment toward their Visual Studio system.
I'm not saying you guys ARE doing that, I was just attempting to answer the question of why investors might opt to jump into this (crowded) space. I have no problem with that kind of data collection btw. It's the personal stuff I don't like :) . Whether you're collecting non-personal data doesn't really matter as long as you're not selling identifiable info (which your privacy policy clearly states you are not).
Re: Launch HN: Slite (YC W18) – Note App for Teams
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