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Shopify is acquiring the Threads team

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For clarity that's Threads (the Slack clone), not Threads (the Twitter clone)

Thanks for the clarification. I thought it was Thread, the IoT home automation protocol and that they were moving into Alexa-like features or something. So many different technologies with the same name :(

https://threads.com/

Interesting, I wonder if Threads was a Rails app.

I know Shopify founder is a big fan of Rails and RoR framework from a documentary [1]

So does not surprise if he is doing this as an acqui-hire to get more quality RoR Devs to join Shopify!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDKUEXBF3B4

are they not all-in on remix/js now? or is the backend side all still rails?

Does Remix come close to Rails in terms of dealing with things like auth and databases and such?

well it depends.. remix is just the compiler, your backend is just whatever node/cloudflare/whatever framework/libraries you want. so no, it's nothing like rails in the batteries-included sense, but if someone built their server using node previously, it's the exact same using remix

i'd never heard of threads.com, but now can't even see their landing page. it's just about the acquisition. good luck googling it too

what was threads.com?

Here is a snapshot of threads.com from a few months ago:

https://archive.is/mWdxZ

It says:

> Threads is a workplace communications tool.

> Designed for teams of...

and then:

> Threads are made up of blocks, arranged to organize ideas.

> In 4 easy steps, we'll show you how to use them to share updates, meeting notes, plans, documents, announcements, questions, and presentations.

Further down are some images of a workplace messenger that looks like somewhere between an email client and Slack.

It was a clone of Slack:

https://framerusercontent.com/images/gtX6DuzLQKg1ObGx4vz6jlN...

For a moment I thought it was about the Instagram Threads team, and I thought surely not.

Then I saw that the tweet mentioned Instagram Threads when skim reading and I was confused.

But no. This is about a startup named Threads that was approached by Instagram for the domain Threads.com that this startup owned. And this startup ultimately got aquired by Shopify.

Without this context, I simply did not understand the post. There are too many products called threads.

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