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Point taken! Guess I was a bit too exciting about being on the frontpage of HN, that's like a dream come true, hehe :-)

Yeah, it's either 35 bugs or 35 bucks per month, the choice is yours :-)

Glad that you ask! Let me explain. In fact, "automatically" is actually a bit misleading. The correct term must be "half-automatically", because everything triggered within ChatGrape still requires your confirmation. (If not, we'd be flooded with false-positives.) Think about tagging on Facebook, specifically, writing a status update and tagging a page of a friend. If you start typing his / her name, Facebook will add a drop down menu and suggest the name(s) - you can select it or choose to ignore it - and the drop down will disappear again. This said, if you were to type, "No, 11am is not good for me. [first drop down with calendar event suggestion, which you simply ignore and go on typing] let's meet around noon tomorrow?" [second drop down with calendar event suggestion, which you confirm, and thus send me a calendar event invite]. Does this make sense?

Hi kajarya! Well, for once, we're only displaying a discount for committing yourself for 12 months, that's fair, wouldn't you agree? Furthermore, neither Slack nor Hipchat are available for fee if you want to use it at its full potential.

Most importantly, with ChatGrape we're going beyond of simply providing a chat based communication solution. On ChatGpape, we're offering a smart engine that automatically triggers workflows based on your communication, such as, let's meet at 2pm tomorrow - automatically adds a calendar event.

There's more than that, of course, but the essence is that we're running a quite extensive engine in the background to make your team's communication easier and more efficient, and that takes up actual processing power.

Finally, considering that our aim to to save you time that you can use better on building your own baby, instead of wasting time searching for documents you ant to share and issues you want to reference - the average startup using ChatGrape has access to all the features for around 35 bugs per month, which is really a reasonable price, don't you think?

Hi natch, thanks for pointing this out! We set out initially with compiling a small survey of the tools that are most widely used among startups, since we figured they're the ones who're most likely to become Early Adopters. Doing this, we saw that most (some 90 something per cent) where using GitHub, DropBox and Google Drive, so we set out to add these first. However, we're of course always trying to figure out what our potential users might be most interested in so we're asking everyone what their favorite integrations would be - hence the feedback box during the sign up process. We've already identified a dozen tools and services we need to integrate with (Trello, for instance, will go live early next week) and we're working full time on adding as many as possibly as soon as possible. If you'd like to, I'd be happy to personally notify you once JIRA is live?

I wrote a small summary of the areas of technology where we're adding innovations to the topic of team communication or chat based communication. Check it out and let me know if you have further questions, I'd be happy to answer! Cheerio, Leo (ChatGrape.com)

Thanks for pointing that out, that should say before the 1st of October! I'll make sure to change it asap.

Cheers,

Leo (ChatGrape)

Hey guys,

Leo from ChatGrape here. We're focusing on two areas of innovation, to add a certain level of intelligence to chat based team communication:

1. Deep Service Integrations: Our integrations of tools and services like Gmail, GitHub etc function on a much more integrated level than what has previously been achieved. For instance, on ChatGrape, all your issues (GitHub) and files (Google Drive / DropBox) are available within the chat, thanks to a smart auto complete that attaches or references all your documents - right as you type.

2. Speech Act Detection (Natural Language Processing): This is all about the triggering of workflows based on normal, "day to day" communications. For example, if I were to write, "Hey Tobi, let's meet up tomorrow at 2pm to discuss the front end issue!" three things will happen: First, you'll be notified, second a calendar event will be added to your Google Calendar and third, the topic or issue will be automatically referenced or attached.

Natural language processing within ChatGrape goes much further, anyhow, and is a topic where our engineering team has gained many years of experience with previous projects.

We're using to make communication simpler and more efficient, whilst not disrupting your normal flow of conversation. (Another example of this is to automatically detect and mark whether / or questions, and mark them as such.)

ChatGrape went live in an Early Access Phase (Pre-Beta) phase about six weeks ago and not nearly everything of what'll ultimately make ChatGrape the first smart communication solution for teams is fully operational or even deployed yet.

However, what I wrote above will give you guys a better idea of it is that sets ChatGrape apart from all existing solutions like Slack or Hipchat.

I'm looking forward to your feedback and questions and I'm always available via lf@ubergrape.com! And we'd of course be happy about you guys joining our Early Access Phase to provide further feedback.

The biggest differentiator is that ChatGrape integrates (and attaches) all your issues, files and documents automatically as you type. We call this Deep Service Integration. This way, you'll never again lose time searching for documents or issues you're trying to reference ;)

sounds interesting.. but doesn't Flowdock do that too? We're using it with our team and it integrates seamlessly with GitHub and much more.

nice. could get used to this!