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Re: Convore (YC W11) Wants To Be The Easiest Group Communication App Yet

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 6:29 PM UTC

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Re: Convore (YC W11) Wants To Be The Easiest Group Communication App Yet

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Post by tomjen3 » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 6:31 PM UTC

This seems useful, but there is no way to see what it does different than all of the other chat apps on the front page.

So I guess I will skip signing up for now.

Re: Convore (YC W11) Wants To Be The Easiest Group Communication App Yet

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Post by aaronblohowiak » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 6:32 PM UTC

tomjen3 wrote: post #12

This seems useful, but there is no way to see what it does different than all of the other chat apps on the front page. So I guess I will skip signing up for now.

It multiplexes rooms over groups. So, you join a group, and then people within that group create a "topic". Basically, it is like a realtime BBS with "starring", @replies, and "unread" tracking.

Re: Convore (YC W11) Wants To Be The Easiest Group Communication App Yet

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Post by daniel_levine » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 6:46 PM UTC

I've been using Convore for a bit over a week and it's great so far! Keep it up guys

Re: Convore (YC W11) Wants To Be The Easiest Group Communication App Yet

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Post by ryanb » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 6:52 PM UTC

The YC W11 class has been using Convore nonstop. It's pretty amazing.

Re: Convore (YC W11) Wants To Be The Easiest Group Communication App Yet

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Post by icey » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 6:58 PM UTC

Looks awesome, well done!

I created an entrepreneurship group here to test it out: https://convore.com/entrepreneurship/

Re: Convore (YC W11) Wants To Be The Easiest Group Communication App Yet

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Post by zx76 » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 6:59 PM UTC

simonw wrote: post #8

I've been hanging out on Convore for a few weeks and they're definitely on to something - it's entirely replaced Twitter as my online water cooler. In a way it's similar to IRC, but the ability to create new topics which have their own chatroom-style thread (while still being alerted to conversations elsewhere) means you can duck out and come back again a few days later and pick up the same conversation.

I agree the new features are really useful but would also argue that there is an Evaporative Cooling Effect (http://blog.bumblebeelabs.com/social-software-sundays-2-the-...) taking place - there is hardly any noise on Convore at present. Even with a carefully maintained follow list on twitter I still get so much noise in my stream that I no longer check it regularly.

Re: Convore (YC W11) Wants To Be The Easiest Group Communication App Yet

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Post by bretthellman » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 7:03 PM UTC

Fun design. Though, doesn't Facebook groups make group conversations like this a lot easier as using FB groups does not require having another tab open? Seems like FB has the social groups nailed. Very curious to hear convore's thoughts... And no, I don't work for FB.

Re: Convore (YC W11) Wants To Be The Easiest Group Communication App Yet

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Post by rkudeshi » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 7:05 PM UTC

Does it support file uploads, like Campfire?

Re: Convore (YC W11) Wants To Be The Easiest Group Communication App Yet

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Post by _grrr » Wed, Feb 09, 2011, 7:06 PM UTC

I wonder how they will monetize this? A white-label chat platform for websites that want a chat facility would be one option (StackOverflow rolled out chat recently, but this would have been a good candidate for them). Branded in-house chat for corporates would be another, especially those with distributed project teams that want to communicate around a project. I like the fact that the chat sessions are persistent and revolve around a topic - this makes them very useful in a project environment.