Alternative to proprietary SaaS messaging, Mattermost brings team communication into one place making it searchable and accessible anywhere. Written in Golang & React and run as a production-ready Linux binary under an MIT license with either MySQL or Postgres
About Mattermost 1.0 on Product Hunt
“Open source Slack alternative”
Mattermost 1.0 launched on Product Hunt on October 14th, 2015 and earned 203 upvotes and 19 comments, placing #7 on the daily leaderboard. Alternative to proprietary SaaS messaging, Mattermost brings team communication into one place making it searchable and accessible anywhere. Written in Golang & React and run as a production-ready Linux binary under an MIT license with either MySQL or Postgres
On the analytics side, Mattermost 1.0 competes within Slack, Productivity, Messaging, Open Source and Tech — topics that collectively have 1.5M followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Mattermost 1.0 performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Mattermost 1.0?
Mattermost 1.0 was hunted by Noah Tovares. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Noah Tovares