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Show HN: a new team chat web/irc tool
- Nickste 14y agoI tried to register with a .co.za (South Africa) domain name and it caused the following error: not a valid email address? Looking forward to seeing the product!
- nic-ferrier 14y agoThat should be fixed.
- RossM 14y agoDoesn't appear to be live yet (the confirmation email says they'll send a message when they are).
- xeroxmalf 14y agoJust a heads up: you haven't set a page header/name yet!
- grannyg00se 14y agoThere's also an extra closing div tag in there.
- nic-ferrier 14y agoawww man. templating. thanks for catching.
- tommi 14y agoImages are not clickable for full resolution.
- nic-ferrier 14y agothey are now.
- zaargy 14y agoLove the idea! About time someone did this. What's the tech stack like?
- nic-ferrier 14y agoIt's all emacslisp. Including the webserver (it's elnode). So there is an irc bouncer written in elisp tightly integrated with the elnode webapp. The bouncer uses a modified rcirc (built into emacs) to connect to the irc servers. The robot framework is also written in emacslisp. The irc servers are ngircd and the webserver is nginx.
- JoelMcCracken 14y agoBomb-diggity. I saw your gravatar and immediately thought "Omy is this an el-node projet!?" Sweet.
- nic-ferrier 14y agoI'm kinda surprised that people haven't picked up on that bit and asked questions. You'd have thought hackers would be interested in that bit :-)
- jlf 14y agoCongratulations, Nic, on what is likely the world's first Emacs-hosted startup! For those who don't know, teamchat is implemented in Emacs Lisp using Nic's elnode (async web server) and shoesoff (IRC bouncer) libraries, among others.
- math0ne 14y agonice, big elisp fan!
- nic-ferrier 14y agoThanks jlf! You guys at #emacs have helped this happen. An awesome community.
- richtaur 14y agoI built something like this (a long time ago) for my own purposes. So did a startup we're working with! That says there might be a need for it, but on the downside it's really simple to build, so competition can spring up very quickly.
- nic-ferrier 14y agoit's simple to build a simple one... but the more polished takes more time. Why not just offload that work to someone else? That's our view anyway. We've chatted to some potential clients and other companies running their operations this way.
- jvandenbroeck 14y agoThere are very nice solutions out there already, Microsoft Lync & IBM Sametime.
- jiggy2011 14y agoMinor point: It would be nice to be able to click those screenshots and get bigger versions. It's currently very difficult to see what the application looks like.
- zaargy 14y agoThere are some bigger screenshots on the about page.
- nic-ferrier 14y agoBigger ones now provided.
- steverb 14y agoWell, that was deflating. Sent out the link to several co-workers (since we are looking for this sort of tool right now) and then we all get the "We'll let you know when we go live" email. So thanks for making me look like an idiot.
- nic-ferrier 14y agoI'll try and prioritize your teams access. Send us an email or hit me up directly on twitter: http://twitter.com/nicferrier http://twitter.com/nicferrier
- rocky1138 14y agoThis^. Did the exact same :S
- nic-ferrier 14y agoIf you ping me on twitter I'll make sure you're prioritized. We are obviously wanted teams to try this to tell us what is good and what isn't. So if you're a team we want you basically.
- georgespencer 14y agoI would be really excited to try this. Is it live yet? I always think it's better to save Show HN posts for products that we can actually play with. Looking forward to seeing this in any case.
- nic-ferrier 14y agoI know... I know. I prefer that too. The trouble is this is for teams, you kinda have to have a team. We wanted to gauge interest so we've done it this way. If we can we'll go live for collections of people (if there are 2 or 3 people from the same company email domain) this week or next.
- steverb 14y agoCan you please make it clear on the register page that there is no publicly available product yet? I had three guys from my team sign up so we could test it out, and only after signing up did we find out that it's not live yet.
- nic-ferrier 14y agowill do. I'll also try and make sure you get prioritized for go live.
- mej10 14y agoCan you publish your numbers afterward? Or just whether you thought it was worth it? (Or something along those lines) I have seen this strategy recommended to gauge interest, but have always been wary of doing it myself (for exactly this reason: people being like "wtf? this isn't real?"). It is probably one of those things that should be done, even if it makes you uncomfortable.
- nic-ferrier 14y agoThat's basically it. We've worked on this for quite a while and I reckon we could just keep going... This way we can gauge interest and prioritize teams who sign up. And yes. I will publish results later in the week.
- stephen_mcd 14y agoI'm about a day away from releasing Gnotty, which is a similar tool but open source: https://github.com/stephenmcd/gnotty https://github.com/stephenmcd/gnotty Mobile-friendly IRC web client, private rooms, and bots with commands/webhooks.
- nic-ferrier 14y agoI'm not going to advertize it that much (because I don't want to support people that way yet) but all the code behind teamchat.net is freely available on github.
- stephen_mcd 14y agoAwesome :-)
- mglukhovsky 14y agoI was just about to try setting up Gnotty for our IRC channel based on the repo, can't wait to see what you'll be releasing.
- stephen_mcd 14y agoWhat's in the GitHub repo is entirely it - I'm just working on a blog post to announce it, so you can get started right now.
- mars 14y agokind of similar to grove: https://grove.io https://grove.io
- mars 14y agoi think what could really make the difference is the video chat feature though. if properly implemented...does it work fluently?
- nic-ferrier 14y agoYes. We're veterans of previous video startups. This is video meeting done right. It's not a big part of the product but it is important coz it means you don't need skype or hangout or whatever in addition to this.
- plaguuuuuu 14y agoI'm looking to write an open source app with basically similar video chat functionality. Could I ask what's the best way of implementing this? I'm guessing WebRTC would be the way to go... once it is released at least
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- qwesko 14y agowww.mebeam.com/chat_team
- nic-ferrier 14y agoyeah. there are loads of alternative video chat apps. that's not the point of teamchat.