Kaiwa
Productivity
team chat client
SHOW HN2015
How HN took it
14 positive, 36 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 13 critical, out of 64 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Idea: 9 for, 4 againstExecution: 3 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 2 againstDesign: 0 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Welcomed as a self-hostable, open-source Slack alternative
From 3 comments
In my opinion, it doesn't matter if it looks like Slack. What matters is that I can deploy it on an existing infrastructure and still have control over the service instead of…
LaSombra on HNI for one welcome slack competitors, self-hostable, open sources ones especially.
est on HNGreat Work! This is exactly what I was looking for to deploy on my work, We are still stick on IBM chat, and this will blow people out of Water.
xfalcox on HN
Open source apps promoting open protocols is good
From 1 comment
Great to see open source apps promoting open protocols - made me sad to see FB and Google moving away from it
juliendsv-mbm on HN
Deploy-to-DigitalOcean button is useful
From 1 comment
The click to deploy on Digital Ocean is pretty cool.
ape4 on HN
Objections
UI looks like a copy of Slack
From 3 comments
The UI feels like a 1 to 1 copy of the Slack client, or is Slacks UI so common now copying it is just using the Chat-UI standard?
simondelacourt on HNLooks just like Slack.
laex on HNWhat's so original about the Slack ui? It's channels on the left and conversation on the right. A lot of irc clients look this way.
Touche on HN
XMPP is dated and hard to work with; no push notifications on mobile
From 2 comments
What prevents me from adopting XMPP for my team is the lack of push notifications to my phone. I don't want to have an app constantly maintain a connection and slowly drain my…
datr on HNI've been working with XMPP and a number of XMPP daemons. A couple years later I'm not a fan.
lasermike026 on HN
No end-to-end encryption like OTR
From 2 comments
No mention of OTR. :-( When your client is a Web app on a trusted server (i.e. OTR key on the server), you could avoid multi-client issues by having only that on XMPP client that…
hsivonen on HNI'm curious how E2E encryption (OTR e.g.) could be implemented with a client like this (preferably without having the keys leaked all over the place), it's the only interesting…
creshal on HN
Maker's sister products raise concerns about the team
From 1 comment
Note that the same team also offer a Trello clone and an Evernote clone. Draw your own conclusions. http://digicoop.io/products
goodmachine on HN
Requests
Webhooks / Slack-style integrations
From 2 comments
Is there any chance we will see webhooks in a future release? (ie. slack integration)
davidchua on HNWe are working on integrating Hubot first and we'll look into webhooks after.
emixam on HN
Mobile client support
From 1 comment
Is there a good mobile client to use with a xmpp serveR?
mosselman on HN
Custom server IP addresses in mobile clients
From 1 comment
Also Conversations doesnt allow for customer server IP address so it's unusable for me. Yaxim does which is why I will have to stay with it. Custom IP server addresses are…
drcross on HN
Questions
Does it work with ejabberd?
From 1 comment
We haven't tried but it should work with any server that supports WebSockets.
emixam on HN
Can it chat with Google Talk users?
From 1 comment
You will first need an XMPP account but then you can add GTalk users to your roster and chat with them.
emixam on HN
Is LDAP optional?
From 1 comment
LDAP is already optional. You can remove the "ldap" section from the config file and just launch the client.
emixam on HN
Alternatives named
Let's Chat
From 1 comment
Check out http://sdelements.github.io/lets-chat/
Synergyse on HN
Candy
From 1 comment
There's Candy: http://candy-chat.github.io/candy/
pstadler on HN
Matrix
From 1 comment
There's also http://matrix.org ; though it's not going down the RFC route (at the moment at least). </blatant self-promotion> There seems to be this general assumption at the…
jkire on HN
irssi with screen and ssh
From 1 comment
screen + ssh + irssi (+ bitlbee, if you need xmpp) > any web based solution. Why? Because I can see it on my phone and on my laptop, and it's as lightweight and simple as a `ssh…
nickysielicki on HN
HipChat Server
From 1 comment
HipChat does this: https://www.hipchat.com/server
flxfxp on HN