One of the product folks I worked with at Slack has also entered into this space--way faster than I have lol They seem to have gone the React/Electron route, though I haven't confirmed. Here's "Emdash", their take on modern collaboration for distributed teams: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4318... - ThreadSky

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jesselawson.dev • 2 days ago

One of the product folks I worked with at Slack has also entered into this space--way faster than I have lol They seem to have gone the React/Electron route, though I haven't confirmed.

Here's "Emdash", their take on modern collaboration for distributed teams:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43184362

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jesselawson.dev•2 days ago

This is great news for Teamlanes. As I shared in a comment there on HN, we need more options/competition in this space because it's dominated by the same four or five tired modalities of digital collaboration. Emdash appears oriented toward the existing enterprise market--and they look really slick!

jesselawson.dev•2 days ago

Teamlanes is taking a different approach entirely. The whole stack is built from scratch in Rust on top of tokio and hyper. The desktop client is built in Tauri (Rust). Where traditional startups are rapidly prototyping and adapting to prospective future customers (as they should), Teamlanes is not:

jesselawson.dev•2 days ago

I am highly opinionated about what I call the Core Communication & Collaboration Primitives (C3P) of a tool for digital collaboration among humans. I know the domain I am modelling, and I want it modeled as close to metal as possible. I'm trading time-to-market for core affordance experience.

jesselawson.dev•2 days ago

The fact is that the TAM is massive--but more importantly to me, the TAG (total addressable gap) left by a plurality of startups focusing efforts on enterprise customers leaves opinionated, stubborn people like me with an incredible opportunity to double-down on "excellence begins with the basics."

jesselawson.dev•2 days ago

So TL;DR: there's PLENTY of room here for options (or "competition" depending on how you want to participate). The more the merrier, I say--especially since it gives me a clear product to recommend to others for whom Teamlanes does not (and will not) solve their enterprise-grade needs.

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