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I think that our concept of operator transports and your API technology definitely have some parallels. We don't plan on marketing towards enterprise as we generally believe that they have money to burn on large sophisticated products like Smooch (or build it themselves).
We're taking it one step at a time, first build a good base, then figure out where to head from there. Again really appreciate you taking the time to comment and your feedback!
You're right in that the socket server is fairly easy to pull in using other tooling. Our focus at the moment is to just build a stable set of pieces that you can use to interact with your website visitor. The operator transports are where things will get interesting, connecting to other tools, etc. This is where connecting things like Pusher will shine, we hope.
Thanks again for the feedback!
Thanks for the feedback too, in complete honesty, it was a combination of we were interested in the language, and overheard it was good with concurrency... that was enough for us to give it a shot.
Edit: Also apologies for not answering your question re: email integration, its going to be one of the first major integrations we do!
We've thought about working with xmpp because it would allow us to cover a lot of things people use to connect with, and plan on building out an operator (our speak for the other end of a web visitor's conversation) for it!
One of the creators, this is the first project we've taken from inception to open source, and are working towards building a hosted service [0]. A big motivator for building it was the high costs associated with competitors like Intercom.io and Smooch
It mainly comprises of 3 code bases, the server[1], the client[2] and then an application[3] to speak to the client.
As always would love to hear feedback, good and bad! Also if you have any questions let me know :)
[0]: https://minimal.chat [1]: https://github.com/minimalchat/daemon [2]: https://github.com/minimalchat/client [3]: https://github.com/minimalchat/operator-app
I'm against all the fake news in Facebook et all but if we dont teach people to be good at detecting it we're just putting a bandaid over a broken bone so to speak. Am I being overly optimistic of society, that learning how to detect bullshit is better than doing the hard work for them?
1. https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/787781519951720449 2. https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/787781046519693316 3. https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/787777344740163584
Either way, I've gone ahead and paid for the year up front, please keep going, I thoroughly enjoy the articles!
After you do that it shows up in the address bar beside the SSL lock
"Secure proxy provided by SurfEasy Inc., an Opera company based in Canada. By using the service you accept the Terms of Service. VPN connects to other servers around the world so your connection speed might be affected."
My only gripe with it so far is the VPN is across all tabs, so I have to switch it off to access some of my office VPN sites
Defiantly thinking about doing something similar to this sometime soon!!
Such a great book for people who love math. The end of the book gets a little bit hairy with more complex subjects but it is a great story from Mr Frenkel of going from school to working on the Langlands Project - toted as the rosetta stone for math. Defiantly a must read for anyone who wants to get into mathematics as a career
If you're going to go to try to win, that's great.. but people shouldn't feel that there is some sort of responsibility to be there, and to give it your all. I have left hackathons because of other commitments, or I just got bored.
Considering going on one of their paid tiers