EGEGreg·Nov 1, 2015
At Qbix (our company) we believe that there will be a platform for social apps the way that Wordpress is for blogs.
We just recently met with a VC who was impressed with our platform pitch, saying he hasn't seen something large in our space that's open source yet. Slack specifically came up as something that Andreessen Horowitz made a big bet on. I'm not going to say much (unless someone asks) except that:
* It's open source and on GitHub (http://github.com/EGreg/Platform)
* It is designed to put control back in people's and communities' hands. It should be installed by communities, or they can choose us to host, like wordpress.com does
* Each community can release its own client app, BUT you can also have client apps which provide a seamless experience ACROSS communities and let you do identity + connect with friends + get notifications
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across communities!
* This was not easy to build. It took us over four years.
We started before Diaspora* and we built an open platform on which app developers can build apps which communities can install, and which can aggregate social experiences across communities. The apps can be ANY social apps and the platform takes care of all the underlying details, including app versioning, user identities, "finding your friends" in each new community, registration/password stuff, email / mobile notifications, native app integration and caching, and much more.