It's got a beautiful landing page, but I don't understand the key benefits over Slack.
Has any of the reasons for building it changed since you started the project in 2012?
Has any of the reasons for building it changed since you started the project in 2012?
Also probably good if your company has to adhere to certain data security legislations keeping the instance firewalled and not giving data to Slack.
Everybody's first complaint is that history isn't preserved with Slack's free tier, but in practice it tends to enforce that those things should be in something more permanent and organized than chat.
We keep mostly everything in-house, but team communication was the hardest part, as we wanted something that defaulted to end-to-end encryption. Surprisingly hard to beat Wire.com.
Ended up going with an XMPP server with OMEMO for encryption, and Jitsi Meet for video.
I gradually stopped working on it as I got busier in both work and life. Part of me regrets not spinning it off as a company, especially after seeing RocketChat take off over the last couple years (we inspired them!).