Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever

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Post by Multicomp » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 11:59 AM UTC

kevsim wrote: post #15

protoduction wrote: post #14

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Have you considered something like Discourse[0] for this usecase, or are you looking for something more minimal? I'm trying to understand the usecase better. [0]: https://www.discourse.org/

Hadn't really considered something like a forum TBH. We just want a place where people can come and give us feedback on our product, potentially in private so other teams can't see what they're saying. People often expose things they're working on or at the very least their way of working to us and that's not something they necessarily want open to the public. Slack is free which is really appealing. But it is a barr…

If you used something like topicbox, you might be able to get a workflow of "email feedback to private generated on demand email, have a private link to a no-login-for-customers web interface to follow that convo"?

Re: Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever

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Post by fredley » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 11:59 AM UTC

I put in my email address and hit 'sign up'. It cleared my email address so I had to put it in again. It then went to another screen where I had to put in a username, and my email address _again_!

Re: Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever

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Post by fredley » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 12:02 PM UTC

While I'd use this, how do I persuade (less privacy conscious) others to join this instead of a Facebook Group on the platform they're already on?

Re: Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever

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Post by erikfiala » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 1:02 PM UTC

Sorry everyone,

we had to go into a temporary maintenance mode right now, because we had too much load and we weren’t ready for it. We'll update you as soon as we're up and running again.

Btw, I'm reading all the feedback, and it's highly appreciated!

Re: Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever

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Post by charliebrownau » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 1:11 PM UTC

Everchat uses google, gstatic , cloudflare (Domains listed on ublock/noscript)

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Pass

Hard to go past IRC, old school forums and XMMP still in 2020

Re: Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever

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Post by chrismorgan » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 1:14 PM UTC

erikfiala wrote: post #34

Sorry everyone, we had to go into a temporary maintenance mode right now, because we had too much load and we weren’t ready for it. We'll update you as soon as we're up and running again. Btw, I'm reading all the feedback, and it's highly appreciated!

Is this why the entire site is not working? I’m just getting a blank screen once I run it in a JavaScript-enabled environment (without which I get “You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.”).

Re: Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever

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Post by Kudos » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 1:34 PM UTC

chrismorgan wrote: post #36

erikfiala wrote: post #34

Sorry everyone, we had to go into a temporary maintenance mode right now, because we had too much load and we weren’t ready for it. We'll update you as soon as we're up and running again. Btw, I'm reading all the feedback, and it's highly appreciated!

Is this why the entire site is not working? I’m just getting a blank screen once I run it in a JavaScript-enabled environment (without which I get “You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.”).

What do you imagine maintenance mode means exactly?

Re: Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever

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Post by pmontra » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 1:36 PM UTC

Did anybody try selling a service like this:

Your our own instance of Mattermost, Discord, or any well know service like those. We manage it for you on our servers, keep it running and up to date. You have admin access to the web app, not to the server. Pay per seat? You can get a db dump at any time and start it over somewhere else.

Basically it's what we get from Slack but we would really own the data. We must trust the service provider but those machines are already in somebody's else cloud, so not a big change.

Re: Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever

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Post by erikfiala » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 1:40 PM UTC

Kudos wrote: post #37

chrismorgan wrote: post #36

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Is this why the entire site is not working? I’m just getting a blank screen once I run it in a JavaScript-enabled environment (without which I get “You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.”).

What do you imagine maintenance mode means exactly?

Well we had to shut down, because of traffic we weren't ready for. :D Will probably be up in couple of days. Need to hotfix this.

Re: Show HN: Everchat 1.0 – Build your community in the fastest way ever

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Post by erikfiala » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 1:45 PM UTC

nextaccountic wrote: post #27

erikfiala wrote: post #21

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For now yes, but we want to take a different path later on. :)

Such as? I would like to hear about this! (Do you have it written in a blog post somewhere?)

we don't sorry - it's a lot to work on since we're just two guys working on this project :D

you can check out our PH post's last image, there are couple of things we're planning in the future https://www.producthunt.com/posts/everchat-1-0