Show HN: Open-source conversational platform and unified messaging APIs

It looks like Mixin is an open source cryptocurrency wallet that also has peer to peer chat and a desktop version. So the only common points I see is that both projects are Open Source and use chat as an interface.

The topic you mentioned above comes from our pricing page for the Airy Enterprise Edition and is about an additional (!) and fully optional conversational data store for archiving conversations and to provide for conversational analytics use cases. We currently only offer this additional streaming option for enterprise customers with large amounts of conversational data by leveraging data lakes on economic cloud storage solutions like AWS S3. We strongly recommend to activate server-side encryption for this storage option.

Here's a blog post we wrote about the relevant topic of utilizing data lakes as a long-term solution to store conversational data: https://blog.airy.co/introducing-data-lakes-for-conversation...

If you have further suggestions how to improve privacy features in the interest of all users, we are of course happy to discuss them.

Airy has a more centralized approach from the perspective of a single organization. We want to give organizations an easy way to access all conversational data across their entire organization in a structured form and help them to utilize it, e.g. to train smarter machine learning models in the interest of their customers.

This is reflected in our mission of structuring the world's conversational data to power the future of customer experiences.

As communication is core to every business, we strongly believe every company should own their conversations and utilize their conversational data in the best possible way, taking the interest and privacy of their customers into consideration.

We believe there is a unique opportunity now in the market to create an open source conversational stack and we would like to contribute to it with something we are good at and have a lot of experience in. Our goal is to create an open standard for the processing and storing of conversational data which is why we went open source.

This situation is perfectly suited from our perspective for an open core pricing model where we will continue to give away our Airy open source core platform for free under an Apache 2.0 license and sell additional enterprise licenses for optional features like advanced routing capabilities, team management, advanced storage and analytics solutions on top to enterprises that have additional requirements and more organizational complexity to deal with. Enterprises can run Airy Core + Airy Enterprise in their own private cloud or even on premise for privacy sensitive industries like banking, insurance or healthcare.

For business teams that want the full power of a conversational platform like Airy, but can't or don't want to dedicate engineering resources on their end, we also offer a fully managed Airy Cloud solution on the side. Because each Airy instance is fully independent, we can even offer this service in any region in case the relevant customer has preferences e.g. to store their conversational data exclusively in the EU or in a specific country or data center.