Are there any startups these days that don't include words "features a beautiful, simple design"?
It's web 3.0's blink tag.
Hum
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Re: Hum
#52Here's an idea: when I visit your website, let me choose whether or not I want to watch a video. Don't just play a god damn video in the background. Too much emphasis on flashiness over substance.
Re: Hum
#53Hey all! Co-founder of HUM here, and happy to answer any questions you may have about it. We've been cranking away on this product for the better part of the past year and are very excited to be rolling it out over the coming weeks.
Is it mac only? I am poor and I cannot afford a mac :(
No. ;) There is a Mac desktop client but the app will be available on the web as well.
Re: Hum
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
You make some excellent points about using email in a support organization. To be fair though, Hum isn't designed to be used by employees in a call center. Instead, Hum addresses a much more fundamental shift in communication patterns that is already in full swing. Conversations are getting shorter and shorter, and more to the point. Most teens I know never check their email. Many of them don't even have email addres…
About a year ago I started making a point of sampling all of the teens I found myself in conversation with — family dinners, speaking at high schools, friends' siblings — and asking about their email usage patterns. While it's true that they don't use email as a primary communication medium (yet) it seems likely that this is because they also don't have jobs (yet) and that it's currently easier to talk to their frien…
Wait....there's a myth that "teens don't have email"? Who are the jackasses that perpetuate this garbage?
Re: Hum
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doesn't Facebook chat integrate with email in the exact same way?
No, because it only works with facebook... ?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't I open Gmail, send someone a message (@letshum.com or @facebook.com), and they receive it as a Hum or Facebook chat message? Then, they can reply to the message in their chat client as if it were a text, and it goes to my Gmail? That seems quite similar, and in both cases I can communicate using email, while my friend uses chat. This seems to be the underlying reason why both services give every user an email address, so I fail to see how this sets Hum apart from other chat apps.
Re: Hum
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is it mac only? I am poor and I cannot afford a mac :(
No. ;) There is a Mac desktop client but the app will be available on the web as well.
I am wondering you can release a windows client. Web is acceptable but not perfect (i.e. cannot provide notifications).
you can build it on .NET. Don't care about XP, FUCK THESE XP USERS.
Re: Hum
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, because it only works with facebook... ?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't I open Gmail, send someone a message (@letshum.com or @facebook.com), and they receive it as a Hum or Facebook chat message? Then, they can reply to the message in their chat client as if it were a text, and it goes to my Gmail? That seems quite similar, and in both cases I can communicate using email, while my friend uses chat. This seems to be the underlying reason why both servic…
Facebook has announced their intention to retire @facebook.com addresses, forwarding mail sent to them to the user's primary email address and making all chats involving @facebook.com addresses read only.
Re: Hum
#58Why are there so many negative comments? And most of these aren't even constructive criticisms. Do you have any suggestions to give the founding team? Any constructive criticism to offer? I'm sure they'd like to hear it. On the other hand, snide remarks provide hardly any value to anyone.
Looks like you're new around here. Welcome to HN, where the top comment for DropBox's launch was something along the lines of "this will never work".
Presumably the second highest rated comment was "less space than a nomad - lame" ...
Re: Hum
#59I wonder if the same idea can be adapted for online forums. Think - something like standard PhpBB, but with each thread being its own IRC channel with full archive. Has anyone seen anything like this done already?
Re: Hum
#60Why to use this over Flowdock? Flowdock: Group chat for teams. Integrates with GitHub, Jira, Trello.
www.flowdock.com