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Beam: Simple sharing across your organization

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64 pointsconnorsears15 comments

Looks handy for large orgs and would fit well integrated with similar social-network-style internal comms tools.

Off topic: Can't recommend such a divisive topic as the demo splash for the webapp interface. The last thing you want is potential users coming to your website and getting turned off because they are on one or another side of a topical debate.

I know it's cheeky but honestly just emanating the idea of "NFTs for pictures of food" into the world hit me in a way I don't want to be hit.

> The last thing you want is potential users coming to your website and getting turned off because they are on one or another side of a topical debate.

When I read this I had to do a double-take that I missed something. What divisive topic?? Oh it's NFTs. Who cares.

I don't know. If we shitposted about NFTs in our corporate blog and any potential customers were offended, then... seems fine to me? I can think of infinite worse topical things to post.

Aside, we've turned away potential customers that are too tied with crypto as we do not want to be associated broadly with that space.

Congratulations.

Love this internal communication tool! It uses my favorite stack Next.js + NextAuth + PlanetScale + Prisma, so I couldn't help it but make a video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMrH444Bvw4

It's a quick code and deploy walkthrough

Ah, another naming conflict with the entire BEAM VM distributed ecosystem ( erlang, elixir, et al., )

An, another naming conflict with the BEAM streaming platform.

( which was itself also in naming conflict before it became mixer and was subsequently shuttered )

I honestly dont get it.

Is it a tool that allows you to communicate one to many within an organization?

Seems like that already has a large number of solutions with huge user bases.

What is the magic dust that makes this interesting to adopt?

Just another [mini]blogging setup. Idk why wordpress + rss would be worse

I haven't gotten too far into this article, but I've long thought it would be a good idea if people had their "stuff" on devices they control, then they "subscribe" themselves into networks. You choose what's visible, and every other joiner of that network sees it as part of their "wall" (or whatever other display there might be).

[time passes]

And now that I've read it, yeah, this is getting closer. You could have an app you can write in, centralized in your stuff (Syncthing style, maybe), then everything that's tagged e.g. "work" is made available on what here is a Slack puller, but could be anything.

This is a good move by Intel, they need to catch up to AMD in the embedded and automotive markets.

Tesla making the move from Intel to AMD SOCs wasn't a good look for them.

agreed.

I believe you meant your comment to be in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30441513

Offtopic but there is a strange bug on this website when browsing to another article through the "previous" and "next" buttons at the bottom of the page. The displayed title changes as expected but the content doesn't.

I was able to see the same content titled as "Beam..." then "Announcing Vitess 13" when switching to previous. And when switching tab and back, the page was displaying "Beam..." but the content was about Vitess 13.

This should be fixed now :)

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