Couldn't it be a Matrix client ?
Else, a new silo is born.
Show HN: Struct – A Feed-Centric Chat Platform
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#112"Create a feed for your CEO's threads and stay in sync with your company's latest vision and goals. Jump in the conversation with the right answers and get that promotion you deserve. " This made me smile with a little sad smile, as i again and again understand it is not important what you do it's important who sees you doing that :)
Isn't that part of the tasks of a manager, making sure to be up to date with what your subs are doing?
It's really not in the interest of a company to incentivize employees to waste time on marketing themselves to their supervisors.
I see this very often, but I think it is just showing that most managers are not doing a good job in this regard.
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#113Looks super cool! Having a few issues with Win10:
i) Antivirus kept blocking the installer, so had to manually add an exception
ii) Can't log in using the desktop app. After creating an account using email and adding the code sent to my email I get an ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS.
Also a bit curious about the Windows app - seems to be running on Microsoft Edge? Why did you end up choosing Edge?
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#114This 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…
3 people is insanely lean for something that looks this polished.
Try and maintain that for as long as you can.
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#115Really cool and promising product, but why the .ai TLD? It feels like an unnecessary focus.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
yeah, you've hit it on the head – I think what I felt was missing in the demo was a feeling of presence. a hard thing to capture. anyways, awesome job and good luck!
Thanks! We'll be brainstorming ways of making user presence felt, while keeping it clean.
+1 for human presence. I agree with the commenter upthread that it feels off-puttingly impersonal. Show me the faces!
Otherwise, I totally get the problem you're trying to solve so I poked it and quite liked it.
As someone with 2091 years worth of Slack convos (and Slack wanting me to upgrade to export them) can you let me know how you handle imports and exports?
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks! We'll be brainstorming ways of making user presence felt, while keeping it clean.
+1 for human presence. I agree with the commenter upthread that it feels off-puttingly impersonal. Show me the faces! Otherwise, I totally get the problem you're trying to solve so I poked it and quite liked it. As someone with 2091 years worth of Slack convos (and Slack wanting me to upgrade to export them) can you let me know how you handle imports and exports?
You can install the Struct bot in Slack: https://struct.ai/install-slack -- This would by default pick up the last 3 months of conversations (we do this to decrease the unpaid load on GPT). You can ping us and we can help sync it from the beginning of whatever history Slack shows.
We don't have an exporter yet, but can surely put one together which provides a SQL / CSV formatted output (or whatever works best for users). We would never charge for exports.
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Real-time platforms cause interruptions, yes. But, that's where we are today with Slack. So, we're starting off from that point. Let's take real-time chat platforms, and reimagine how we can make them more efficient. More useful. Less noisy. That's the idea for Struct. The list of people we email is different from the list of people we chat with. In a team, that means, team comms happen on chat platform. And external…
Actually, I think that a real features for chat would be the ability to allow "different speeds": - some questions requires "urgent" answers (for example: missing info in a meeting) - some interactions may be processed "in the flow", during the day, when time is available - some interactions are "human noise", people just chatting Right now, with teams & others, everything may be "urgent" so you'll have to check and…
The reason Slack and Teams feels so "urgent", is because there's little going back to reply to an older conversation. Everything is so ephemeral on these platforms, that either you reply now, or it's a goner (slight exaggeration, but mostly true).
Struct's feed system is naturally designed to surface latest, unread conversations. So even if when I've been away for days, I just come back and go thread by thread, like cleaning an inbox. It's a lot smoother system, and you miss nothing.
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#119Looks super cool! Having a few issues with Win10: i) Antivirus kept blocking the installer, so had to manually add an exception ii) Can't log in using the desktop app. After creating an account using email and adding the code sent to my email I get an ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS. Also a bit curious about the Windows app - seems to be running on Microsoft Edge? Why did you end up choosing Edge?
It's built on Tauri, so it picks the system default browser I think. We had applied for getting an EV certificate for the Win desktop app, but it's taking time to get that process done for some weird reason.
I'll get the FE dev to look at the too many redirects issue. Seems strange. Does it open fine on your Edge browser: https://app.struct.ai?
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#120Really cool and promising product, but why the .ai TLD? It feels like an unnecessary focus.
Really wanted the .com domain, but that wasn't available. We got the .co domain, but .ai domain felt more right, given we're using AI, and now it's even part of the pricing model.
Hope to get that .com domain someday :-).