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by nyconyco 2889 days ago
Hey all here,

So I observe that lots of team chat users seem lost and don't what to do anymore.

The problem with alternative Open Source team chats attempts is that they are just another silo, or walled garden. Instances do not talk to each other. A private island cannot join continent. Even within the same organisations plenty of incompatible team chats are used competitively, fragmenting the workforces.

We propose to fix all that with Nayego: https://nayego.net/ Nayego is an open source team chat under development, that has a world-class UX, and that is federated/decentralised/federated like email.

Nayego wishes to address the organisations that are open and extended, where teams are working together with other internal teams, and with partners, customers, providers, but also freelancers, and remote and home office workers.

Nayego is and will remain free/open source and open standard (XMPP, SIP, WebRTC). If you wish to register to the preview, please go to: https://nayego.net/ We will do our best.

3 comments

Echoing Promarged, the world class UX claim had me searching for screenshots, not having any was a major turn-off.
I understand.

A complete and comprehensive UX is not seen in a few screenshots...

You have several potential customers here telling you what they expect to see on a landing page when considering your product. If you’re this stubborn about listening to non-customers who are telling you exactly how to get them into your sales funnel, it gives the impression you would care less about their needs and suggestions regarding the product itself once they become customers.

Listen to your ideal customers, then regurgitate it back to them. If screenshots are not enough, how about a video? Discuss the pain points you’re solving, and show how you solve them. Maybe embed a chat session on the page and let me chat with a bot to feel why it’s better, but do something so I take your product seriously.

No, but you can get a good idea of it. If your UX is as "world class" as you claim then I would expect you'd want to show it off as a main selling point.

Giving me nothing but a bunch of marketing fluff on the home page makes me immediately lose interest.

Sounds nice, too bad there are no screenshots so I can't see what does it look like without giving my e-mail.

Does it run on an open protocol? (Maybe HTTP or XMPP based?)

That is right, I "exchange" screenshots against feedback, on a live interaction...

Yes, it runs on XMPP and SIP and WebRTC, and obviously HTTPS (because what does not?).

Your landing page takes five hundred years to load.

If you cannot do well such a simple thing as landing page, how do you have any courage to promote your actual product, which is much, much more complex than a single page?

If anything, all your marketing pamphlets are now working against you, not increasing confidence in your product, but rather decreasing it.

Perhaps you should do your best first, then hijack threads with shameful self-promotion?

Yes, you are right, thanks for noticing and reporting, the landing page is slow these days, because under load, you guessed ;-)