I don't understand what improvement this app is bringing. All he says is that he's disappointed in Campfire. There are more people in the comments here saying Campfire needs to be superseded. Why?<p>My business uses Campfire in place of an office and it works great. We make heavy use of the api to generate notifications of completed work (like a passively updated Yammer).<p>It's so important to me though, that I could easily be convinced to switch. But nobody seems to be able to say why I would want to. Even in the comments here, there are people talking about Mibbit and Shoptalkapp without saying why.
To provide some context, Marc is the guy behind the Create Your Own Programming Language e-book/screencast discussed recently on HN: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=813133" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=813133</a>
I congratulate him for starting his own thing, but it's going to be very hard to get me to leave my google apps group chat. Transcripts are saved and searchable alongside my email. I do wish they'd support xmpp persistent rooms though.
I guess I'm either getting old or just have a different mindset. I think of chat as as enormous distraction to getting work done. I am one of those people who disables intrusive alerts from email and anything else that might lurk in the system tray and interrupt me. I check my email a couple of times a day, and generally sign off of chat services if I want to concentrate. Good luck to you though; clearly a lot of people have a different view on this.
It goes without saying and I'm sure you already know it, but it's so important that it needs to be said (again):<p>Get something out there, sooner rather than later.<p>Many of us have been there. We want to make something so good that we just want to add "one more thing" before we release. Next thing you know, it's a year later and we wonder where the time went. I imagine you guys are just too saavy to let that happen. Good luck!