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I can give a basic example of why chat-based UI will not dominate.

Let's say I want to change a setting that uses a traditional radio button UI:

- Autoscale servers - Manual scale servers

It's much easier to discover, understand the options, and make a decision via a radio button UI than to ask for my options via chat. That would look like:

"I'm having load issues on my servers. Can you increase the server capacity?" "Sure! Do you want to autoscale or manual scale?" "What's the difference? Are those the only two options or are there more?" "There are only these 2 options. The difference is..."

That's just a worse UX.

Identity online should be optional. If you read comments on a news story about an upcoming election in your country, you should see some that are verifiably a human citizen from your country, separate from everything else. Pay attention to everything else at your discretion.

I think a web that is half identified and half anonymous would work well.

In organization chart data, there are people with cute names (John, Jane) and there are positions with descriptive names (Head of Product, Head of Sales).

People's responsibilities change but their cute name does not. But you might not know everyone's cute name, and you want to know who to talk to when something was sold that can't be fulfilled. So you look up Head of Sales in the org chart.

Perhaps having two names is what is needed as in organization charts.

I find it interesting how people always judge products based on their v1.

Yes it has flaws, but early adopters will put up with it, and future iterations will be much better. I think we need to ask ourselves whether, if some things improved, this is a good idea.

And I like it.

Together Software | Toronto, Canada or Vancouver, Canada | Full-Time, Hybrid-OK | https://togetherplatform.com Together Software helps large companies solve their pressing people problems (career development, skills, diversity) with mentorship programs. We pair relevant mentors and mentees within the company for career-building discussions, and provide reporting and insights to companies. We're hiring 3 engineers, and are growing >10% each month with a Series A around the corner.

Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/together/86c724e1-9337-487b-a79f-541e8...

Tech Stack: Javascript (React, Node, GCP)

If you have any questions reach out to me personally (nathan@ our website)

Together Software | Toronto, Canada or Remote (US Timezones) | Full-Time, Remote-OK | https://togetherplatform.com Together Software helps large companies solve their pressing people problems (career development, skills, diversity) with mentorship programs. We pair relevant mentors and mentees within the company for career-building discussions, and provide reporting and insights to companies.

We're hiring 2-3 engineers, and are growing >10% each month with a Series A around the corner.

Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/together/86c724e1-9337-487b-a79f-541e8...

Tech Stack: Javascript (React, Node, GCP)

If you have any questions reach out to me personally (nathan at togetherplatform dot com)

Thanks for your honest feedback, really helpful. We provide the 365 integration for any size of customer, our pricing page just reflects what typical asks are at each size. For example, many large companies want to kick off a quick pilot of 1-200 people before rolling out, and don't want to bother their IT team.

We provide a tiered pricing on usage. If you change your mind, don't hesitate to reach out and we'll sort your plan out.

Sharing this feedback with the team for our site.

Great question! Generally, this is a new category of software, and there are really few companies and approaches are different. Some that I could call out: - what workflow integrations are done (we try to be as professional-employee-friendly as possible with Outlook/GSuite integrations) - pricing models - UX design

Maybe a bit more color on the last one - there are tons of things you need to consider when dealing with relationships between professionals. How do you communicate unpairing people carefully? - just one example.

We strive every day to excel at this, and while I can't speak to exactly how other products work, that's what we differentiate on