Hi, we wanted to show you a little something, so here it is.<p>We suggest you also read the manifesto[0] we wrote, telling more about our mission on this project.<p>[0] <a href="https://kwak.io/blog" rel="nofollow">https://kwak.io/blog</a>
This looks exactly like Shout[1]. This seems to be an IRC channel, and you have a web interface (using Shout) hosted on your domain, with some of Shout's features removed so that people can't use it to connect to other IRC servers. And you aren't giving any credit to Shout.<p>*EDIT: My apologies, I totally jumped the gun there. I didn't see the "?" at the bottom, which states that that's exactly what this is. I still think that you could give a little more credit to them, though. In my opinion, this is more than just "based" on Shout, as your credits say.<p>[1]:<a href="http://shout-irc.com/" rel="nofollow">http://shout-irc.com/</a>
As I chat with one of the founders, If I had to describe the service I would write something like:<p>"kwak.io: a discussion-based (channels), real-time (chat) platform (server)"<p>which forme it sounds like: server + chat + channels === 'IRC'<p>Nowdays we have plenty of modern alternatives to good-old IRC: Slack, Gitter, Hipchat. So I asked where does kwak.io fits in?<p>For me it's a fun but unclear experiment. According to their manifesto (<a href="https://medium.com/@kwak.io/kwak-s-manifesto-14c69104e70" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@kwak.io/kwak-s-manifesto-14c69104e70</a>) I get the "IRC communication style" part, but I'm not totally clear how will they achieve the "mixed with modern social features" part.
Very nice start! Dope logo.<p>Good idea to go MVP and get it out in the world and get some learning going. Of course the down side to MVCs is the user doesn't know it's MVC — some comments might reflect that ;)<p>Looking forward to seeing where you take this IRC-esq revival!
Very nice. The UI feels slightly slower (more sluggish) than web IRC chats. The ability to enable audio on messages or @mentions (in settings) is a good addition. But how does kwak want/expect people to use this? www.kwak.io just has 4 hashtags and jumps me straight into a chatroom. Either I am missing something or there's nothing more to this "Show HN" than literally showing it?
This is IRC. Also the interface is the same of the Shout IRC client: <a href="http://shout-irc.com/" rel="nofollow">http://shout-irc.com/</a>