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

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Post by WesleyJohnson »

mrjn wrote: post #129
WesleyJohnson wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We switched from Slack to Teams because we were going all in on Office 365 and Teams is included.... so why pay for Slack? But, honestly, we don't use a lot of the integrations, except for maybe the Sharepoint access when adding attachments which is, admittedly, pretty nice. We also don't use Threads in Teams. Things got lost trying to jump back and forth between the "Chat" tab and the "Teams" tab. So now, we just cr…

Perhaps a good start would be to create a Struct org, for communicating within the team? We'd surely look into Teams integration at some point. Though, I'm not sure how many takers would be there for Teams/Struct integration. My perception is that Teams users tend to be medium-to-large businesses who are tied to Microsoft Office, and would be very hard to sell to. I might be wrong.

I'm sure you're probably spot on. Going to take a deeper look at Struct regardless; it's intriguing.

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

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Post by smt88 »

mrjn wrote: post #93
smt88 wrote: post #88

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But I don't currently use Slack as a task manager and don't want an unstructured task manager with no due dates or tags.

Yup. That's the point I'm making. Slack is used as ephemeral messaging system, a knowledge void. Struct aims to proves that more is possible.

Gmail threads can also be task managers. That doesn't mean they're the right UI for it.

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

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Post by d1sxeyes »

vatican_banker wrote: post #55

Countless tools have promised to highlight "what's worth my attention". None of them have worked for me or my team. What's different on Struct? A few questions I jotted down while watching the video on Struct's landing page: 1. the concept of channels seems to be important on Struct as channels are the starting point of threads/feeds. Could you clarify the concept of channels on Struct? Is it just a concept to group…

The problem is that everyone wants to screen their calls but no one wants _their_ call screened.

People will keep finding ways to steal your attention if they want it (starting new threads, etc).

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

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Post by stevenicr »

Like the home page - like the animated graphics.

Like that you have a section on privacy, quite confused about the statement there though.. like, "you'll only see results from threads you're authorized to view"

So it sounds privacy is a main thing.. but the gist of this tool is that it pushed chat data to openai servers? and I;m assuming it's not a self hosting option, it's a saas on your servers?

I would look more into how it actually does whatever if I didn't see the privacy issues, there was a self hosted system to connect with a self hosted llm or something.

c 2023 in footer

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

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Post by xp84 »

I haven’t had the chance to try yet, but trying to use slack in a fully remote company means I’m very frustrated in keeping up with what’s important, and remembering in which room or 5-person ad hoc DM some discussion took place in.

So I hope this is good, and I hope Salesforce (slack) backs a big money truck up to your houses to make you an offer you can’t refuse, because I specifically need this slack thing you mentioned and I don’t think they’re that friendly to third-party tools (as in clients). So I worry that if something is to fix Slack, it’ll have to have connections in-house.

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

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Post by mrjn »

Charon77 wrote: post #136

While I think this has promises, how can I convince my big corpo that uses slack to switch? Are there any slow rollout plan so people can try and see if they like it?

https://struct.ai/struct-for-slack would allow individuals to use Struct as an interface to Slack, without the whole team having to switch in one go.

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

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Post by mrjn »

stevenicr wrote: post #134

Like the home page - like the animated graphics. Like that you have a section on privacy, quite confused about the statement there though.. like, "you'll only see results from threads you're authorized to view" So it sounds privacy is a main thing.. but the gist of this tool is that it pushed chat data to openai servers? and I;m assuming it's not a self hosting option, it's a saas on your servers? I would look more i…

OpenAI has strict privacy rules in place. Being on a business account, any of the data that we send to OpenAI wouldn't be used for training.

It's a SaaS. Over the next few months, we'll be going through the SOC2 compliance process.

Will update the footer, thanks for catching.

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