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Alpine
All your work in one place: docs, tasks, chat, AI and more
344 followers
All your work in one place: docs, tasks, chat, AI and more
344 followers
Alpine brings docs, tasks, and chat together in one app. See updates from across your company with an algorithmic feed. Work alongside AI agents that have complete context of everything you’re doing. Use alongside your current tools or replace them entirely.
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@calebmer Congrats! Excited to check this out!
@calebmer This looks great! I can definitely see Alpine replacing our Slack + Notion combo to keep docs closer to real-time convos. Have you considered a freemium or personal (founder?) plan based on usage? That was a real game changer for Notion’s go-to-market and can help teams dip their toes in before committing. I see that Alpine is clearly team-focused — but productivity tools struggle to overcome habit inertia, so having a low-barrier “foot in the door” tier could help adoption. Cheers!
Curious how you think about reducing context switching when everything lives in one surface.
Do you optimize more for capture speed or later organization?
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@dmitry_petrakov there’s a bunch of little things we can do because we own all the tools that you can’t if you have separate apps.
• To link a doc from chat @ mention
• Then that link has the docs name without being a big ugly link
• When you click on the doc you get a fully interactive preview in window without opening a new app or stopping you from what you’re doing
It’s simple but that flow is just not possible with Slack + Notion.
Other examples:
• cmd-k searches across everything and gives you an interactive preview. You can copy, make edits, close search without switching away from what you were doing
• Did a chat message come in while you were planning your day in the tasks product? You can open a little preview window, respond, and continue working on tasks
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As for capture speed vs later organization, we optimize 100% for capture speed and don’t ask you to organize AT ALL. Work is chaotic and constantly changing. Your organization system that worked last quarter may not make sense this quarter. Computers are also very good today at finding + organizing information. So you just create and the computer surfaces stuff for you when you need it (through feed and search mostly). We do have tools for organization but they’re optional.
@calebmer This makes a lot of sense – especially the “don’t ask users to organize at all” part.
What resonates for me is that you’re treating capture as cheap and reversible, and structure as something the system can apply later when it’s actually useful.
That separation between thinking-in-motion and sense-making feels like the real DX win here. Thanks for the detailed explanation.
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@dmitry_petrakov I also responded to the first part of your question via screenshare on X to help visualize how it works! https://x.com/calebmer/status/2011129707043942736?s=20
Will have to talk about capture more on too :)
Hey Caleb! I have been wondering about a tool like that for a big while!
How can I move all the data, documents and stuff that I have in slack, Notion to Alpine?
Thanks!
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@danimirror send us an email contact@alpine.inc and we’ll get you sorted
The motivation behind this resonates. Switching tools constantly is exhausting, even when each tool is “best in class.”
Curious what internal constraint guided your design decisions the most while building Alpine.
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@shreya_chaurasia19 Great question. We knew we wanted to build a multi-product tool. We also knew we wanted to be simple, clean, and easy to use. If you're not careful, those two forces are at odds! So we started by thinking about "what's the system?" How do we have a company with 10+ products under one roof that doesn't lose it's simplicity. That ends up feeling more like OS design at times than traditional product design lol. Our answer: focus on our "universal" interfaces, the interfaces which span every product. Today that's feed, search, and inbox. Those are where we expect people to spend most of their time. They should be designed in such a way to not give any one product preferential treatment since that'll break down as we scale to more functionality.
This looks absolutely beautiful. Where would you say the design inspiration came from?
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@campak This may sound silly but the design evolved walking backwards from this one feature in the screen pictured below. This is our document product with a cover. Our cover feature uses a computational art program to generate unique art for every document (we want to offer more of these art programs over time not just this blobby one). Document cover features in tools like Notion let you select an Unsplash image which are often completely unrelated from the document's content and don't support the content, instead they distract from it. Instead our cover feature creates visual depth and lends authority to important documents.
So I knew I wanted this cover feature. To really make the feature sing we needed a clean see through app chrome. You'll see in the image how even your company logo in the top left corner lets the art show through (though you can set a background if that's not on-brand for you).
That decision to place everything on a white background and use spacing to visually group sections eventually bled its way into the rest of the product.
This looks really compelling, especially the idea of having everything in one place with shared context for AI.
One question though: a lot of critical information in teams still lives outside tools — phone calls, meetings, quick verbal decisions. Is that “spoken” knowledge brought back into Alpine so it doesn’t get lost?
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@ddu The next product want to build is meeting notetaker (ala Granola) and long long term (5 years?) we want a video conferencing tool too. That's a lot of spoken data in Alpine then. As for verbal decisions we'll have to see how AI hardware develops and how to integrate that in too.
Do you have integrations? Would I be able to use the tool alongside my company's existing tool stack (Slack, Linear, Notion, GitHub) for private productivity?
Didn't find docs on your web page to check for myself.
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@sven_bendel we're actively working on integrations. Out of the four you mentioned which integration is the most important and how would you expect it to work?
@calebmerHard to say. I guess, having live previews (embeddings) of links to Slack messages, Linear tasks, GitHub PRs and Notion pages would be a good start.