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Re: Show HN: Struct – A Feed-Centric Chat Platform

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Post by iuffxguy »

strogonoff wrote: post #17

Can’t recommend enough Zulip. First-class topics, tools for organizing messages between streams & topics, open-source self-hostable, no engagement of ML out of the box (but probably possible thanks to Python plugin support), Vim-like keyboard shortcuts.

Looks cool, but unfortunately another company that treats single sign-on as a luxury feature, not a core security requirement by jacking the price way up to get SAML support. Companies really need to stop doing this.

Re: Show HN: Struct – A Feed-Centric Chat Platform

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Post by DanHulton »

God, I was interested in the pitch until "and AI".

I'm just so, so tired of LLMs and having to work around all the new and surprising ways they don't quite work the way they're supposed to. At the very least, when other programs don't work the way I want them to, I can usually get used to the issue or find a workaround sometimes. When something is AI-powered, I just have to kind of resign myself to the fact that sometimes it's just... not gonna do the thing. And usually in a new way that I have to develop a new workaround for, or sometimes there's just no workaround, it just sometimes doesn't work and you have to deal with that!

It's like I can never develop any sort of armour around the rushed or poor decisions and features I encounter, because it's fresh, interesting poor decisions, automated at scale!

Re: Show HN: Struct – A Feed-Centric Chat Platform

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Post by mrjn »

kikki wrote: post #19
strogonoff wrote: post #17

Can’t recommend enough Zulip. First-class topics, tools for organizing messages between streams & topics, open-source self-hostable, no engagement of ML out of the box (but probably possible thanks to Python plugin support), Vim-like keyboard shortcuts.

I was about to say the same thing - I use Zulip at current employment - and after you get used to it it’s pretty great software that already solves all the problems struct aims to (without the AI nonsense)

Founder of Struct here. I looked at Zulip before starting Struct. And I'm sorry -- I don't think it's the same. Threads in Zulip are really sub-channels, and the idea of a unified feed like "All Threads" doesn't exist -- at least, that was my perception of Zulip. And just looking at the site right now, it feels the same as before. I could be wrong.

Struct is different. It's a reimagination of what a chat platform would look like if you were to completely give up the idea of chats in a serial log of channels (IRC, Slack, Discord), and embrace threads and feeds whole-heartedly. When everything is a thread, the platform can work remarkably well for users.

Re: Show HN: Struct – A Feed-Centric Chat Platform

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Post by n42 »

This is one of the first Slack competitors that has caught my attention. I really think you're on to something here. I have one thought after watching the video (other than a generally positive feeling about it):

It feels, somehow, less personal. Where Slack rooms felt like digital _rooms_, this gave me the feeling of an office bulletin board. I'm imagining being a new employee at a company that is fully bought in on Struct, and somehow I feel like developing personal connections with my coworkers would be more difficult. I don't really get why, that's just my first impression from the demo.

Otherwise, as a currently funemployed but past SV eng leader, I would have loved to have had this at my last company while dealing with all of the communication chaos that entails.

Re: Show HN: Struct – A Feed-Centric Chat Platform

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Post by mrjn »

rglover wrote: post #25

This is killer. Love the idea of focused threads while still having channels. Really like the design of everything, too. Only question: long-term plans? Before I commit a lot of data to something like this it'd be good to know it's not a VC flip and dump.

Manish, founder here.

We intend to keep Struct running. Struct is built with a small of 3: Backend, Designer and Frontend. It's not that capital intensive.

We have a roadmap of features that we're excited to get to, combining both teams and community usecases:

- Enable audio / video calls, webinars. - Various spam control systems for community. - Improving the AI bot and recall, making it cheaper to run. - Index the docs shared on Struct, so AI can respond to questions from there as well (obv while maintaining access control) - the list goes on.

The thing is. What excites me about Struct is that, it combines a bunch of use cases for us.Struct is replacing two chat platforms (team and community), a task management system, a ChatGPT, my personal TODO list, a publicly indexable knowledge-base for us.

It's amazing what you can do when you can trust a system to not forget.

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