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Building an open-source Slack replacement

2 pointsby morajabi4 months ago

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morajabi4 months ago
We&#x27;ve been developing a native work chat app that fixes the shortcomings of existing chat apps for work, called Inline (inline.chat).<p>It&#x27;s still pre-alpha but we decided to open-source our client apps as we don&#x27;t like to build in silence.<p>Also, we wanted to build more trust with the community maybe it helps to show we don&#x27;t want to be yet another chat app that builds hype, gets acquired and shuts down.<p>I realize it&#x27;s extremely hard to make a native chat app for multiple platforms, but we constantly hit web app limits building our previous web-based chat app. We&#x27;ll be making native apps for Android (Kotlin), Web and Windows (Swift) after the macOS&#x2F;iOS apps hit a baseline of features.