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Re: Show HN: Sameroom.io

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Post by azsharapov » Wed, Apr 08, 2015, 5:36 PM UTC

Qwl wrote: post #19

azsharapov wrote: post #18

This tool has been helping me connecting public gitter channel to my Kato room, to stay up to date. Gitter seems very slow for me (yet).

What do you mean by slow -- performance?

I mean UI mainly. UI performance, yes.

Re: Show HN: Sameroom.io

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Post by Qwl » Wed, Apr 08, 2015, 5:36 PM UTC

alexschiff wrote: post #17

I wonder how important (and difficult) it's going to be to have a desktop app for this. Everyone I know that uses Slack, Hipchat, etc. has the desktop app. Do you plan to offer one / is that possible?

Definitely no apps.

Our goal is to be the plumbing that connects other apps/services. We think the main value here is the possibility to use whatever app/service you like best to communicate with other teams.

Re: Show HN: Sameroom.io

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Post by zawaideh » Wed, Apr 08, 2015, 5:37 PM UTC

Qwl wrote: post #16

zawaideh wrote: post #15

Just going to your site, the value is not immediately clear. One possible thing to consider: Have a public chat room on the homepage connecting some sample chat rooms. Allow users to jump to the rooms in different services.

We're thinking something like a video might be a better approach... Public chatrooms immediately face the graffiti issue.

Graffiti could be interesting ;)

Re: Show HN: Sameroom.io

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Post by Qwl » Wed, Apr 08, 2015, 5:37 PM UTC

Qwl wrote: post #22

alexschiff wrote: post #17

I wonder how important (and difficult) it's going to be to have a desktop app for this. Everyone I know that uses Slack, Hipchat, etc. has the desktop app. Do you plan to offer one / is that possible?

Definitely no apps. Our goal is to be the plumbing that connects other apps/services. We think the main value here is the possibility to use whatever app/service you like best to communicate with other teams.

Obviously we've got a ways to go to support more platforms. (And some platforms have a ways to go with API development)

Re: Show HN: Sameroom.io

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Post by courington » Wed, Apr 08, 2015, 5:40 PM UTC

can i connect my IRC behind a vpn with a service outside of the vpn?

Re: Show HN: Sameroom.io

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Post by Qwl » Wed, Apr 08, 2015, 5:42 PM UTC

courington wrote: post #25

can i connect my IRC behind a vpn with a service outside of the vpn?

No, sameroom wouldn't be able to access your IRC servers behind the firewall. (Which is probably a good thing!)

Re: Show HN: Sameroom.io

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Post by lomowin » Wed, Apr 08, 2015, 5:42 PM UTC

I don't get it. Why it's not clickable?

Re: Show HN: Sameroom.io

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Post by minimal_o » Wed, Apr 08, 2015, 5:48 PM UTC

sweet! i'm looking forward to trying this out since i'd really like to be able to connect my Kato rooms to my clients that insist on using Skype or that are already committed to other services like Slack.

Re: Show HN: Sameroom.io

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Post by bennyjoseph » Wed, Apr 08, 2015, 6:01 PM UTC

I work at a large company and have been surprised at all the different communication tools used across teams. This is a super helpful tool to help fix that because I think its hopeless to think that everyone will get on the same tool.

Re: Show HN: Sameroom.io

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Post by elpeper » Wed, Apr 08, 2015, 6:14 PM UTC

Pretty sweet way to provide the infrastructure necessary to communicate across teams using different chat services.