Hi everyone. I've spent a big chunk of my life on apps like slack/discord/fb groups/whatsapp groups/telegram groups and i hate that they get useless after basically more than 50 people join them (tons of channels and red notifications bubbles and just the best people and content getting lost in the message stream, to the point i have to mute/archive them all).
so i'm launching a new desktop and mobile app to make the legacy apps obsolete for myself and for anyone else who resonates with my experience.
i come from the 3rd world and have spent most of my teenage years and all of my twenties trying to earn the right to move to a location with high talent density, and in the meantime i've heavily depended on these apps for giving myself and others like me an equal opportunity to be surrounded with the brightest people in my areas of interests, make authentic friendships and exchange knowledge and build competence *in spite of our location*.
in the process i've become really opinionated and insightful about why and how these apps fail, fallen in love with this problem/product space and business case and just gone all out to build a superior product that doesn't feel like the modern day cubicle or freaking yahoo messenger.
integral is new, and this is the public beta version. we could wait til feb to launch for more features to be available but we're launching it early to get some early adopters/clients to build this with/for and also to 10x luck.
on a high level, the app has 2 types of features and roadmaps: 1. communication features (posting/commenting/direct messaging etc.) and 2. knowledge/relationship transfer features.
communication features are ready enough that i migrated a paid founder community that i run from slack to integral.
knowledge/relationship transfer features are work in progress and i'm building them throughout nov and dec. also releasing our mobile app in Jan 2025.
thank you for your attention and support, i appreciate you.
Best of luck guys. Doing an awseome job with the very lean team, Looking forward to the beta access to the platform
Excited to try this as Slack has pretty much become unaffordable/unusable without paying and discord seems to be too noisy/overwhelming to use
Kudos to the team @sinamerajii @sahilypatel, excited to explore the potential of this platform in the community. 🚀 Keep building
There needs to be an alternative to slack and discord for communities and I just think that Integral might be it!
Congratulations on the launch!🚀
Looks super interesting & simple to use. Can’t wait to try it out!
I see something great at the brink of its inception @sahilypatel . Keep killing @sinamerajii @sahilypatel
Congrats on the launch Sahil and Sina.
One feedback I can share by watching the video is having a summary of the group chats so that even if Im not actively involved in the group, I can still have context of the discussion without having to read multiple threads.
Google chat does this and I think its pretty useful.
Congratulations on the launch @sinamerajii and @sahilypatel! The design looks sleek and clean. The delight is already there.
Hey Sina, congrats on the launch mate. I have a question:
1) what is the user story for integral?
We’re a team of 5, so I don’t think this is for us, but I’m very curious about the journey and objective of this product.
I’m in favor of anyone challenging incumbent products that have not innovated in some time - or as you are doing here, building for an important use case - that’s communities!
Congrats Sina excited to see this out in the world, need more intentional communities and tooling to support them!
