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Re:Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup? by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @01:30PM (#42186652)
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.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you communicate in a remote startup? by andrei_says_ on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @08:52PM (#42190114)
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.

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