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Show HN: AsyncGo: topic-based async discussions for teams

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Hey HN, I’ve been working on AsyncGo for a year now and it has reached a usable state for real teams. It is a place to have thoughtful async conversations around a topic, broader than an issue or epic, and longer lived (and more discoverable) than a Slack chat. Our goal is to help teams avoid meetings and do more async.

We haven’t found product market fit yet and so looking for any feedback on the product, marketing, or anything really. Thanks in advance!

How does it compare to a forum, such as a discourse instance?

A forum has a topic thread that can be nice for having a discussion, but we pair that discussion thread with an artifact (a documented decision or other outcome) that everyone collaborates on during the discussion.

It's relatively bare-bones when it comes to that artifact for now, but once we find more users we want to work with them to make a series of custom artifact types that really support that collaborate, async way of working.

I see. So you want to go deeper into the workflow, to become something like a issue tracker or a ticketing system?

Something like that, you could say a ticketing system for decisions and that wouldn’t be too far off.

Tickets are good for work items, and we are trying to build something like that but for larger discussion topics that have a decision at the end.

We use it to build the product itself, and we use GitHub issues to track features we are going to build, AsyncGo for discussions we need to have, and don’t use Slack at all.. just Google Chat for rare quick pings. We have a few discussion threads going in AsyncGo at a time, and it’s nicer than chat because you have a persistent context, a clear due date, and can engage with the topic when you want to focus on it instead of as they happen in Slack.

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