[HN Gopher] Show HN: An open source alternative to some of Slack...
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Show HN: An open source alternative to some of Slack AI's premium
features
The official Slack AI product looks great, but with limited access
and add-on pricing, I decided to open-source the version I built.
Especially for all the communities on Slack that would have to
convert to paid and buy the upgrade to access the official SlackAI
product/add-on which is not going to be financially viable in most
cases. There's no plan to sell anything, just something I built as
a way to learn some new tools that I thought others might get use
out of. The repo is a ready-to-run slack app that provides thread
summaries and channel overviews on demand using OpenAI (heavy
lifting done by gpt-3.5-turbo and a touch of gpt-4) and some
standard NLP analysis. Anyone technical could easily swap in Claude
or Ollama (and i'd welcome the pull request, it's been on my to do
list!). There's a link in the readme to a blog post I wrote
sharing more about the how/why if you're interested. I'm a product
manager by day, so it's been fun to do some real coding again.
Author : meetbryce
Score : 57 points
Date : 2024-05-09 15:49 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| gliptic wrote:
| > I decided to open-source the version I built in September 2024.
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| I think this is the most impressive part!
| meetbryce wrote:
| oh no... my time travel secrets!
|
| i better fix that
| nadermx wrote:
| Why did you not show up to Hawking's time traveller party?
| meetbryce wrote:
| that's between me and steve
| tithe wrote:
| As far as "Show HN" goes, this is called "burying the lede".
| pants2 wrote:
| This is great, congrats on open-sourcing. The (now $20/user/mo
| we've been told) Slack AI is really not all that good in my
| experience, so it shouldn't be hard for you to do better by just
| spending a little extra $ in API credits.
|
| That said, the Slack API limits third party apps from accessing
| chat history of private messages, so any implementations like
| this are artificially limited. In addition, if you're hosting
| something for your company to use, it would realistically need to
| take into account user permissions to make sure the AI isn't
| sending them data they shouldn't have access to. That could be
| tricky to implement correctly.
| meetbryce wrote:
| thanks @pants2!
|
| oh wow. i should have guessed taking it off the pricing page
| meant the price went up, not down.
|
| this works in private channels, but not in DMs. i think that's
| okay given the likelihood of things getting to much for manual
| parsing in a 1:1 context.
|
| if you've got the time/inclination, I'm interested to hear more
| about what you're getting at with the permissions & access
| piece
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| Is Mattermost more flexible in this regard vs Slack?
| godelski wrote:
| Kinda off topic, but I know a lot of people here use keybase for
| verification, but don't they have a slack alternative that's both
| free and private? (Assuming zoom didn't kill either of those
| aspects) Anyone use it as an actual slack replacement?
| freeqaz wrote:
| Is anybody using Zoom as a Slack alternative? Or Keybase as an
| alternative? Or are you asking if there is something else?
|
| Perhaps I'm lacking context but I couldn't figure out your
| question and I'd like to help you find an answer!
| dewey wrote:
| Key base had a chat product (wouldn't call it a Slack
| competitor though)
| godelski wrote:
| A sibling comment responded to me saying that it was pretty
| much dead, but that I was thinking of this[0]. You'll notice
| it looks a lot like Slack and that there's full teams support
| with full E2EE. And unlike slack you keep your history and
| other stuff. But I guess it is Open Source so maybe someone
| could revive it?
|
| [0] https://book.keybase.io/chat
| meetbryce wrote:
| definitely off topic haha. i've got no idea though
| mdaniel wrote:
| I believe you're thinking of https://book.keybase.io/chat and
| its https://github.com/keybase/managed-bots#keybase-managed-
| bots friend but at least based on my experience on Android I
| can assure you that Keybase is dead. They DGAF, find another
| platform
| godelski wrote:
| Yeah that's kinda the impression I got but was hoping it
| wasn't or there was an alternative. Thanks.
|
| Is this one Open Source too? I wasn't sure which project it
| was under. But if it is then maybe someone else can revive it
| because I'd love to have a Slack alternative that is E2EE.
| tyre wrote:
| Today we tried installing Claude with Slack and were told that
| it's restricted to enterprise versions.
| meetbryce wrote:
| hopefully this being self hosted gets around that kind of
| restriction (at least for a while...)
| jedi4aiimpact wrote:
| Sounds like a solid value add. We have been thinking of
| integrating our system at ixcoach.com with slack. Will take a
| look.
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