If your brand new Uber-for-X needs great user-to-user chat (like Uber itself recently added), consider adding TalkJS within the same day. https://talkjs.com
That said, I was looking for something very similar to talkjs and am going to try it out thanks to your post. So for me it was very useful and would like to ask you some follow-up questions off of hn.
on one hand, who am i to arbitrate relevance? on the other hand, i really think you're pushing it.
"HyperTrack of messaging" -- you are using "HyperTrack" here, the proper noun, as an analogy for "SaaS". TalkJS is "SaaS of messaging". and i think "hey i have a SaaS product too!" is too broad to be contextual.
a similar scenario would be an employee of Stripe posting in this thread, promoting Stripe. sure they could argue it is relevant. i'd argue they are trying a little too hard to make it so.
forgive me if i've missed something.
That said, there's more commonalities between HyperTrack and TalkJS than just that we're both SaaS - both products help you build a marketplace type platform faster. HyperTrack makes it easy to build location sharing between your users, we make it easy to build message sending between your users. Most SaaS products, even most chat products, don't have that dynamic. You can't use Intercom or Slack to build user-to-user messaging on your platform, just like you can't use Google Maps or Mapbox to (easily) build realtime location sharing on your platform.
About your Stripe example: I agree about Stripe in general, but as a matter of fact their Stripe Connect product happens to be a miraculously great fit, becaue it's a service for user to user payments. HyperTrack + Stripe Connect + TalkJS means you can have a functional Uber with all bells and whistles in just a few days.
I felt it was on-topic because this article isn't just about HyperTrack, it's about building an "Uber for X" in a single day.
ps - TalkJS website is awesome. triggers my retro feelies
ps - Thanks!