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What's the best solution for communicating with ~10 people on a group project?

Not email... Slack is the obvious choice, but looking for something messaging related that's more temporary. Coordinating with a group of 10-15 people for a couple of weeks.
Niv DrorWriter/Social Editor @ProductHunt · Asked
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Slack

Be less busy. Real-time messaging, archiving & search.

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Bharath B LohrayPhD student at Texas Tech University · Written
Managed hosting, quick to setup and run.
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Antaratma Andrew BoonCaptain, UNA Inc. · Written
Works Fien for our team of 8.
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Luis E TorruellaSmartphone Owner · Written
It's fast and helps to organize the team. Also works well with third party apps.
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Circuit

Effortless team collaboration, everywhere

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Robert PoschenriederProduct Manager Circuit, Unify · Written
Robert Poschenrieder made this product
Brings messaging, file sharing and conferences with guests together. Since it is all browser based I think it fits your temporary need.
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Philipp BohnProduct lead, Circuit · Edited
Philipp Bohn made this product
very scalable, and powerful mobile apps (iOS, Android) #AMA
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Antonio SantosSocial Media Business Evangelist @Atos · Written
One of the few solutions that is compatible with accessibility requirements.
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WhatsApp

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Ayush Mittalbro @boombro, Founder RefR ✌ · Written
We have set up a Whatsapp group on a side to communicate within out little team. It works and everyone has it. Plus the web version in handy. I reckon it will be great for a couple of weeks.
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AngieFounder of YourApparel · Written
WhatsApp is great for groups.
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Angela L. BrancoPR stuff & tech enthusiast. · Written
Other than Slack, this is probably your best bet in terms of ease of use and team accessibility.
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Discord

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Arthur GuiotDevelopper · Written
Even if Discord is for gamers, it's easy to use and has a modern chat and has also great voice support (I mean that the quality is very very good and there is almost no latency (~10ms for me))
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Telegram Messenger

Whatsapp-esque messaging app but open, cloudbased, encrypted

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Mathias ElmoseEducational Developer · Written
Easy to invite people via a link and you can share files as large as 1.5gb. And they just added video chat.
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Asana

The task management tool, completely redesigned

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Kyle HessFintech Product Manager · Written
Maybe Asana? It would make your communication a bit more focused on tasks (which would probably be good for 15 people!), and the free tier would work fine for you.
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BPlan4Uwww.bplan4u.co.uk · Written
This is a great "to-do" list that can be shared with everyone. you can @ people in your tasks or add them as a follower too. You have your own list and others can create their own (so you don't see everything in one hit, only tasks assigned to you). You can also create groups you can all share to :)
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Wire

Great conversations. Built for mobile, tablets, & desktop.

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Mathias ElmoseEducational Developer · Written
Secure with video chat and screen share. Also I find the drawing on pictures very useful for feedback on design.
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Zoho Cliq

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Manivannan RMember Technical Staff, Zoho Corporation · Written
New to market.. Lots of new features
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Google Docs

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Kunal BhatiaCo-founder & Design Lead @SlidesUp · Written
If you want to have structured communication, having thing organized in Google Docs, especially Sheets, is awesome. When you mention someone in a comment, they get notified. You can also set up the mention as creating a task. I've used this on several recent projects and events I've hosted. It's a low friction, asynchronous way of getting things done!
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Facebook Messenger

Facebook's standalone Messenger for the web

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Nick Abouzeid🕴Social & Growth Intern @ProductHunt · Written
Easy to use, and the event feature works as an efficient way to remind people of when/where they should be at all times (if you go through the trouble of setting them up)!
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Mattermost

Open source, on-premises, Slack alternative

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Bharath B LohrayPhD student at Texas Tech University · Written
Opensource, selfhosted
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Flock

Real-time team messenger tool

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Setal PatelWritten
Used it for a personal project with 7 users. While the basic one-one chat and group messaging was great, what really helped us was inbuilt video calling, to-do lists, notes, and file management. They have a bunch of 3rd party apps as well, but we didn't have a use for them. And it works across platforms, which is always nice.
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Rocket.Chat

Your own open source Slack-like chat

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Adriano CahetéUX Designer & FrontEnd Developer · Written
It's like a Slack, but it's open source and self hosted. You can start a RC installation fast with a Digital Ocean Droplet.
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Facebook Groups

This app gives you a dedicated space for you and your groups

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Mohammed RafyCommunity Manager at DoSelect, Inc · Written
Since almost every one of us uses FB it makes sense to create a group where everyone is already present.
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Glip

Real-Time Team Productivity

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John WangDirector, Platform Products, RingCentral · Edited
Like Slack for chat but well suited for group projects with integrated tasks, calendars, etc. Free with great UX.
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Rich PetersonInnovator · Written
I like the simplicity of Glip. Always a breeze to onboard team members to the platform + it's free for most.
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JIRA Software

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Omer MoladCo-founder and CEO @ Vervoe · Written
I know this seems a bit left field compared to say Slack, but using Jira will add a lot of structure because you can assign tasks to each person. Live communication can still be facilitated using the comments function in each task. You'll know where you're up to on every tasks and be able to easily monitor progress.
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BeeCanvas

Collect and share media visually

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Raymond HongCEO and Co-Founder of Osiris Systems · Written
All kinds of collaborative efforts become centralized in a single workspace, rather than having a suite of separate tools.
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Weekdone 3

Turning you into a superhero at work

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Jüri KaljundiCo-founder, Weekdone · Written
Jüri Kaljundi made this product
Weekdone allows you to move status updates online, save time from meetings and have your team move towards unified goals using OKRs - Objectives and Key Results.
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Mini Mammoth

Powerful research companion from Mammoth

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samAssistant Principal. Reader. Writer. · Written
Create boards, invite people, post notes, attach files, reference boards and people.
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BoostHQ

Your team's virtual workspace.

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RozBahramiDigital Media Manager, Skyprep · Written
I would suggest BoostHQ. It's a workspace for your team's documents, spreadsheets, videos, links, checklists, polls and discussions. You can not only communicate in the chat while working on an embedded google doc but also comment and have it always attached to a content piece so no conversation gets lost like it does in Slack. Highly recommend :)
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