Introducing Kikuchat: The Self-hosted Team Chat Solution • Hacker News Board

Re: Introducing Kikuchat: The Self-hosted Team Chat Solution

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Post by foobarbazetc » Thu, Sep 08, 2011, 2:23 AM UTC

j_baker wrote: post #13

vlucas wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same reason people use Campfire and Hipchat?

I'd like to point out that this doesn't answer my question. I mean, you're not selling Campfire or Hipchat are you?

I think you're vastly underestimating the market for this software.

If it's even almost as good as Campfire or Hipchat, people will buy it because most companies don't want their employees communicating via third party services where shit is archived.

I've been looking for something like this for a while now. I won't use Campfire or Hipchat due to the reasons outlined above (and I don't trust 37s or Hipchat to know how to secure their customer data), and I don't want to use Hipchat's shitty AIR apps.

TL;DR: This product deserves to exist. :)

Re: Introducing Kikuchat: The Self-hosted Team Chat Solution

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Post by haro » Fri, Sep 09, 2011, 4:51 PM UTC

foobarbazetc wrote: post #21

j_baker wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd like to point out that this doesn't answer my question. I mean, you're not selling Campfire or Hipchat are you?

I think you're vastly underestimating the market for this software. If it's even almost as good as Campfire or Hipchat, people will buy it because most companies don't want their employees communicating via third party services where shit is archived. I've been looking for something like this for a while now. I won't use Campfire or Hipchat due to the reasons outlined above (and I don't trust 37s or Hipchat to know h…

100% agreement. I think there is a huge market for this, I hate Air apps, and the main thing that bothers me is manually managing users in Campfire. Haven't dug in enough yet, but if Kiku has some LDAP/AD integration... specifically CAS integration, then I'm interested.

Re: Introducing Kikuchat: The Self-hosted Team Chat Solution

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Post by pstadler » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 12:47 PM UTC

mgkimsal wrote: post #11

mtogo wrote: post #7

It makes me sad that people are reinventing the IRC and XMPP wheel, and doing it poorly. Want your own version of this, with a bit less effort, but free? 1. Install an XMPP server $ sudo apt-get install prosody 2. Install a web frontent There are dozens. Here's one for example: http://amiadogroup.github.com/candy/ 3. Congratulations, you just saved yourself $199.

Ummm... I just tried the 'candy' demo - there's no options for file sharing from the candy interface. Maybe there are in others, but I'd have to go test/try out there - this one says it does it already.

You could easily write a plugin which enables file sharing.