Re:Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup?
by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @01:30PM
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While Slack - if you pay for it - permanently stores all communications and makes it archivable, it's also ephemeral and anything said more than a day ago is effectively gone. They do have an AI summary tool to catch up though, if you pay for it, which is alright.
Re:Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup?
by andrei_says_ on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @08:52PM
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To me the difference is in the affordances and mental model.
Basecamp - groups all communication, assets, participants, tasks in a project space. I open the project which establishes context for everything and everyone. This predefined context makes short efficient communication very powerful.
It’s incredibly simple and sophisticated at the same time - allowing grouping activity by people projects tasks etc.
The ephemeral nature of chat-centered systems makes me incredibly nervous about missing things or being unable to find them.
Encourages grouping people by projects, with all communication on a project being public.
All activity on a project listed in one place.
Catching up with work takes minimal effort, including when someone goes on vacation or leaves the team. All it takes is skimming through the project.
Slack is built around chat with high has its limitations when applied to the context of a longer term project.