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actor-platform
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actorapp / actor-platform · Archived

actor-platform

Actor Messaging platform

Communication & Social
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3Distinct people
5Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
3.3KGitHub stars
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What to know before exploring

What it is

Actor Messaging platform

GitHub

Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by month5 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-07-15 00:44:54 UTC to 2016-04-08 13:03:39 UTC.

0122015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsJul 20152015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsNov 20152015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsApr 2016

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jul 20152015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC211
Aug 20152015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20152015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20152015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20152015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20152015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Feb 20162016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Mar 20162016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Apr 20162016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

5 sources
ex3ndr·Feb 23, 2016
> You're the CEO of actor, right? Yes, my pleasure. > How do you position yourself against Telegram (according to the first Actor post that's where you're coming from) or other solutions? We are replacement for Jabber with powerful productivity-related apps on desktop and people-friendly mobile apps. We are completely open, high performant out of the box. Unlike Jabber we are not non-profit that helps us keep development of the platform, but our sources are completely open. > How are you planning to make money/to stay in business? Actor is already profitable company. A lot of people want to make their own messaging solution, integrate to existing systems, make some customizations and even solve email overflow or other communication issues in the big organizations (with 100k+ of employees). Server can handle millions of users just like Tel
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egram and people need it if they have resources to launch niche messaging app in some country, but don't want to spend years to build it (like we was). That's how we make money. We are lack of resources for landing page development - all forces used at our desktop/web app. If someone want to join us just email me) at steve (at) actor.im :) We are hope that we will clean up all sych stuff on the next stage of our product. > How easy is it to build/run a server? Almost just like apt-get install actor with required configuration: https://github.com/actorapp/actor-bootstrap/tree/master/docs... > Everytime federated messages come up, someone will mention matrix Yes. We talked to them. Actually we use matrix ideas in our s2s protocol drafts: https://github.com/actorapp/actor-platform/blob/master/docs/... One problem with matrix is that it is not considered as production ready, but actor is and already serve 100k's users on foreign instances and it is production ready. We will work on our draft and will then merge our ideas with matrix one.
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