DerKobe

On the point "how this platform compares to others": Think of it as a combination of single-Slack-channel/WhatsApp-Group-Chat on the one side and a EtherPad/Doodle/DropBox on the other side.

Separate noisy chat from writing down facts and stuff you would like to be able to access later on (try this in a WhatsApp-Chat or Slack-channel).

I will try to give you a very brief summary for your points. If you need anything else, just ask a follow up.

- Profitability: We have plans for paid features which are not yet available at this point (kind of micro transactions per jaypad).

- Digital Sustainability (Guaranteeing that the user can use it in the future): To be honest, none. This product is still in beta and as long as it has no sustainable funding it will not have the other one too.

- Interop with other platforms: None at the moment, but we have plans that users can write their own modules for the clipboard side of the jaypad which will open a whole new universe of interop with other things (kind of like Slack-Bots with GUI).

- Privacy: You have the link you have access. It's that simple. But one of the planed paid features is privacy related (no access without invitation, read/write restrictions, private areas, etc.).

To be honest, I don't know either. We wanted to try this type of authentication because of the quick-onboarding style.

Oh! Thanks for pointing out. Not shure if it's a "large" typo ... I didn't write "rezorzs" ;-)

Hmm strange. I just tried with Safari 13.04 and it worked for me. Which version do you use?

I liked Google Wave a lot and it is partly inspired by it.

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Haven't really got time to clean it up but here it goes :-) https://github.com/DerKobe/fridge

Ok, but first I have to clean it up a bit :-) I get back to you.

Spoiler: The state is stored in a GenServer.

I really think you didn't get the point of this. 1. you do not need an account to use it 2. it's all in one place (facts/polls and communication)

We like to call it the smallest project management tool in the world because it is a simple solution to help with planning or setting up:

- your next side project - a weekend trip - a bachelor party - a startup - …

We just ended our closed beta phase and we are looking forward to your feedback and thoughts.

I honestly didn't knew about that. And the hamming distance being 1 is spooky.

We call it "micro social networks". Every network is like a single Slack channel (but open) you can share because it's reachable via an url. You can create those networks on any topic you like. And if you want to engage other people just post in on Twitter or Facebook or send it around via email. You can also use it like a Whatsapp group with friends.

Yeah exactly :) I just gave it a little HN look and feel. Hope you like it.

Full disclosure: I posted the app (back then version 1.0) on HN a few months ago. It haven't had much attention so I changed quite a bit about how it works (1.0: website based channels => 2.0 topic based channels connected to multiple websites). I'm aware that browser extensions are still not that attractive. Because of this and because how the 2.0 version works, I'm working on a site-integratable version (like Disqus) for single channels. The difference to Disqus is that the channels can be integrated into multiple sites and therefor form a connection between those sites.

The whole thing is still very early and I would be glad to hear some thoughts on this or what use cases you come up with.

Btw the backend is written in Elixir/Phoenix which is just a blast and you should try it out if you're a web developer :-)

Looks good! Will try it out!

This is simply a shame since leaving Dublin over money (besides making a shitload of it either way) is just uninspiring.

Don't get me wrong, the evenings were great because Dublins night live is great. The intentions behind the Night Summit might be good but I can't talk to anyone in a disco. At the end it worked out for us because we talked to really cool people and had a great time at Dublin's pubs.

Yes, totally. We were three guys and it was really packed. But I was glad that we were at the town square. From all the halls there was the most free space.

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I'm a huge fan of JetBrains' 0xDBE, but nothing can replace knowing your command line magic. Very nice guide!

Usually yes, but we are in talks with companies which will use the software to provide customer support, help desk support, and/or for conversational commerce. Additionally we are working on some single user features integrated into the client. All this will help to lift the project over the problem of having not enough users at first.

That's because it always takes some kind of "celebrity" to raise awareness :-) It's good for you that you are aware of this but a lot of people (sadly) aren't.

I think it heavily depends on your product. If you have something that can be used by a single person (or small group) without a million others to use it, too, than you're IMHO default alive (Slack, Trello, ...). I think as a rule of thumb if you have to first get traction and then be able to monetize than you're default dead. Instagram's social component was default dead but the feature where you can alter your photos was default alive and that pulled them through.

Been there. It was a death spiral. The investors (which where customers, too) always wanted more features (of which not half of them made sense) so the directive given was just throw something at them that remotely resembles that requested feature to get the money. In the end the product was very unappealing and way too complex to sell to anyone else than this particular investor/customer. And as I heard recently they hired two more sales people in order to fix that. So what I'm trying to say is that not only you have to make sure your code base has a certain level of quality (fsloth's point) but this goes also for the product.

Thank you for your honest feedback. Maybe I chose my words a little poorly:

We have actually talked not only to potential users (a lot) but potential customers (a lot as well) to validate the basic need of enhanced website communication possibilities before we went on the build Talk About Jack. The need for chat communication especially in eCommerce (as well as general customer support) is growing and continually demanded by online customers (of our potential customers).

And yes you're right: people are mean on the internet. We have some (not yet implemented) ideas to handle this issue as well, but we wanted to give people a chance first.

Thank you for sharing your advice and experience with us. We will keep it at heart and greatly appreciate you taking the time to look into our product and the idea behind it.

Oh, sorry! The post started out as a Show HN for the chat system I build, but then I decided to make a few adjustments and thought the Elixir topic is share worthy ... and then I forgot to change the type of the post.

Definitely!

If you have worked with Rails in the past (like me) then the Phoenix website is perfectly fine: http://www.phoenixframework.org/docs/overview

Even if you do not know Rails you should give it a shot. But if it somehow does not fit your needs please come back and let me know. I'm sure there's something out there.

But do you think it is in any way possible to collect money from parents in order to be able to provide an improvement in education? ... I have to say I as a parent wouldn't like it, but if the schools are simply not able to do it who else is left?