[jokull]

They charge per seat so it gets expensive if you have lots of people that need access but are not full time support. That being said we never switched and are still paying! Good product. Surprised there isn’t more competition. Lots of SMB’s need this.

[rolleiflex]

There is! We do Aether Pro (https://aether.app), which is like Front, but focused on internal collaboration for engineering and product teams. We’ve found that it reduces the distraction overhead of engineering teams by quite a wide margin, because it removes a lot of pressure from Slack.

In our case what seems to be happening to people who use Aether Pro is that the important bits of discussion that needs to be preserved go into Aether with its email-like structured threads, and Slack becomes more of a water-cooler talk kind of space, which you can now safely check out from.

It personally removed lots of noise from our Riot instance which we use instead of Slack, for what its worth. Most of the work can happen without being mutexed into a Slack channel now. In the end, whatever makes your engineers more productive is what works.

[goatherders]

Love Aether. Really good way to manage distractions without missing anything important.

[FanaHOVA]

There's also https://www.dragapp.com/ doing something similar.

[franckl]

It looks very similar to Missive (missiveapp.com)