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Show HN: Communication platform for async remote teams (twist.com)

13 points by tm-guimaraes ↗ HN
Because there was a recent post about sync and async in remote work, I decided to show this tool.

Its UX decisions are tailored to async workflows, and they have really cool blogposts about async remote and UX details.

It’s from the same compony as TODOIST

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keikobadthebad
It seems to be doing the same thing as email + mailing list + modern web archive, but $5/mo/user if you want an archive longer than a month.
derekzhouzhen
There are several similar tools (slack with a twist) emerged in the last couple of years.

* quill.chat Slack but more social. bought by twitter and shut down. WTF?

* geneva.com. Slack with a feminine touch?

* twist.com. half way between email and slack?

sscarduzio
So basically it's Github without the code stuff? Is this targeted for the non code-enabled people?
justinlloyd
To be a positive voice in the comments, this looks intriguing. I agree with one of the comments, it looks like email + mailing list, but with lower friction to make it useful for quick messages, making it more chat-like. I think it might be worth giving it a whirl for a small team.

I also like the idea of it being more archival like. I've tried joining various discord servers for different areas of interest, e.g. computer vision and robotics, but it's just a flood of ephemeral noise. Do you know if they have public groups like discord?

annagrigoryan2
I don't see a major difference between slack and twist tbh. At least as of now.

"A noise-free inbox surfaces just what's relevant to you." how do you do this specifically? I see just a gif where a person is marking stuff, but how do you do this? Every communication provides some version of this, how are you different?

Also crossed "lurk on" on the landing page sounds so weird why the war on lurkers?

I guess every tool for remote work is bound to become some copy of slack eventually as bosses want more communication and there are trust issues with remote work.

Async communication tools should be focused on building healthy boundaries between work, 10,000 different topics that an employee can be tagged in and a boss who needs progress reports all the time.

Making slack with cleaner UI is not enough imo.