IMHO, instead of 90-day memory loss, use an LRU eviction strategy.
Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss
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Re: Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss
#72Odd that your site would show macOS looking window for a product with an identical name to a major feature and app that’s been part of macOS since OS X[0]. You may run into some friction trying to launch native apps in the Apple ecosystem that cause confusion with something so fundamental to the system.
0 - https://support.apple.com/guide/imac/the-dock-apd4b7fb731f/m...
Re: Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss
#73Personally if I'm going to start from scratch/square one I would want to pick something with the MS Teams model of forcing everything to be a "post" with threaded comments. Too much of Slack is wading through a mix of back-and-forth comments, proper threads, and DMs trying to piece together latest updates
Re: Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss
#74I've been looking for something like this to coordinate volunteers. Per seat pricing makes it impossible for us to use any existing tool, so we stick to WhatsApp which is productivity hell. Well, there's one more hard requirement. We need the tool to work in Spanish. It's unbelievable how many apps refuse to localize their app, taking into account how easy it is too keep a good localized app in many languages. You're…
why not mattermost which is open source you can selfhost and is really really good.
Re: Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss
#75Since you are in the comments, I’ll just ask directly… Are you planning to enable a local only version of chat history and maybe an option for local first instancing? In my line of work Slack is basically a non-starter due to the off sight and non-employee managed nature of the storage/centralized transport and pass-through nature of their business model. I would love to be able to have something similar for my vario…
As an aside, have you looked at Zulip?
Re: Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss
#76I run a company that services 1,000+ clients on Slack, another 300+ on Teams, and a I wouldn't wish Teams on my worst enemy, so in that regard, I love Slack The thing I struggle with the most is how I'd move all of our core functionality from Slack. A lot of the people/teams that build these "Slack killers" I don't think have ever run Slack at scale How are you going to replace the 30+ in-house apps I've built that a…
Feels like the more important question is how are you going to do all these things when Slack cuts you off, or there is some new Slack policy that prevents it, or they increase their pricing by 1000% Haven’t you basically built your entire business on this singular proprietary platform they you have almost no control over?
> Haven’t you basically built your entire business on this singular proprietary platform they you have almost no control over?
Would adopting the OP put you in a different position?
Re: Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss
#77I've been looking for something like this to coordinate volunteers. Per seat pricing makes it impossible for us to use any existing tool, so we stick to WhatsApp which is productivity hell. Well, there's one more hard requirement. We need the tool to work in Spanish. It's unbelievable how many apps refuse to localize their app, taking into account how easy it is too keep a good localized app in many languages. You're…
why not mattermost which is open source you can selfhost and is really really good.
didn't mattermost recently make some changes to their license that put a bunch of features behind a paywall?
Re: Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss
#78Odd that your site would show macOS looking window for a product with an identical name to a major feature and app that’s been part of macOS since OS X[0]. You may run into some friction trying to launch native apps in the Apple ecosystem that cause confusion with something so fundamental to the system. 0 - https://support.apple.com/guide/imac/the-dock-apd4b7fb731f/m...
I'm gonna let you in on a secret... 99% of Mac users don't know what the Dock is called.
Re: Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss
#79This caught my eye:
> $50 /month
> $300/year if paid annually
I've never seen such a steep discount for annual payment. 50%!
Whereas this, under the "what we don't do":
> Feature circus
> Workflows, canvases, clips, huddles, lists... When did chat get this complicated?
This is not very believable. This new product doesn't have those things because they haven't had time to build them yet. They will. Because there will be users that want them. Maybe not every user wants every feature, but there's a reason they're there.
People want to integrate their entire company into their chat product, and that's all part of it.
Re: Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think you can ignore mobile, particularly wrt notifications. I'm not sure if the app stores are as aggressive in restricting wrapped apps as they used to be.
Mobile notifications are a must have for any Slack replacement. Lots of teams have centralized their on call alerts to Slack.
Don't this would be a problem. Mobile notifications are good with vapid/pwas nowadays