A seamless way to pull in all communications from all the services I’m on:
20+ Slack Groups
10+ Telegram Groups and Conversations
30+ WhatsApp Converstions
20+ Signal Conversations
50+ SMS Converstations
Email
LinkedIn
Keybase
Discord
SwapCard
Patron
Whatever else I’m missing...
Perhaps there’s already something like this, but I’m hesitant because it seems overwhelming and likely that it means I have yet another service to check...
Eh, I did some work for the director who started Shift and I know the owner of the parent company (Shift is one in their family of products).
If there is demand for Shift (at least 10 people will use it), I can probably get a deal, and we can fund it through the infrastructure fund or something (modulo some sort of conflict of interest thing on my end).
Just so you know, you can think of Shift like tabs in chrome, but the tabs are accounts from all of your various apps, Slacks, and you can run multiple accounts, and it should be setup pretty smoothly.
It’s not a panacea but if it something like a “one-stop shop” is what you need, Shift could work.
it uses a lot of RAM and I don’t think it supports SMS
Yup, it’s built in Electron (or a related backend, they changed it a few times), which is cross platform and so is ram hungry. I think it’s pretty smooth on any modern machine.
By the way, Shift and Redbrick are great people, pretty much the best culture you can get in tech.
As a follow up to this: the open-source community has since released Ferdium, a free desktop app that makes it much easier to view your services all in one place.
Downside: it’s 6€ per month if you want to add an infinite amount of services. The free version only covers three.
I personally have not used it but the people I know who use it seem to be quite happy with it. If you have any concerns about privacy: sorry I can’t help you there because I don’t use it and have therefore not looked into how it works :)
A seamless way to pull in all communications from all the services I’m on:
20+ Slack Groups
10+ Telegram Groups and Conversations
30+ WhatsApp Converstions
20+ Signal Conversations
50+ SMS Converstations
Email
LinkedIn
Keybase
Discord
SwapCard
Patron
Whatever else I’m missing...
Perhaps there’s already something like this, but I’m hesitant because it seems overwhelming and likely that it means I have yet another service to check...
A friend uses https://tryshift.com/
Downsides: it’s $99.99 per year, it uses a lot of RAM and I don’t think it supports SMS
Eh, I did some work for the director who started Shift and I know the owner of the parent company (Shift is one in their family of products).
If there is demand for Shift (at least 10 people will use it), I can probably get a deal, and we can fund it through the infrastructure fund or something (modulo some sort of conflict of interest thing on my end).
Just so you know, you can think of Shift like tabs in chrome, but the tabs are accounts from all of your various apps, Slacks, and you can run multiple accounts, and it should be setup pretty smoothly.
It’s not a panacea but if it something like a “one-stop shop” is what you need, Shift could work.
Yup, it’s built in Electron (or a related backend, they changed it a few times), which is cross platform and so is ram hungry. I think it’s pretty smooth on any modern machine.
By the way, Shift and Redbrick are great people, pretty much the best culture you can get in tech.
I think “matrix” is the keyword you want to search?
...I think the matrix is already searching for me...
Hey @Alex Barnes,
As a follow up to this: the open-source community has since released Ferdium, a free desktop app that makes it much easier to view your services all in one place.
Not sure if it covers all of your needs but I think franz can cover quite a lot.
https://meetfranz.com/de/
Downside: it’s 6€ per month if you want to add an infinite amount of services. The free version only covers three.
I personally have not used it but the people I know who use it seem to be quite happy with it. If you have any concerns about privacy: sorry I can’t help you there because I don’t use it and have therefore not looked into how it works :)
Is Ferdi what you’re looking for?