Hello Product Hunt!
Over the many years I’ve spent building collaboration tools, I realized that many companies don’t get the full value from the team collaboration tools out there. Maybe because you have coworkers who don’t want to use anything other than email, you work with other departments and companies, or you collaborate with a lot of your customers. Getting everybody to use and stick with something new is really hard.
So we embarked on a journey to build a modern team messaging app powered by email.
With Redkix you can collaborate in channels with other Redkix users for a real-time experience, as well as include non-Redkix users who can participate via email so no one is left out.
We’ve also integrated your existing inbox so you can manage all your conversations in one place: Email, channels, and DMs. That means you can do things like take any email and move it instantly to a channel to talk it over.
Our mission is to enable people to collaborate without friction. Work with co-workers, customers, clients, partners - literally anyone - to form a productive team (whatever team means to you).
Today we’re excited to open up our public beta to all of you on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android (Reach out to me at oudi@redkix.com and I’ll get you in a private beta of Android!).
Right now Redkix supports Gsuite, Office365, and Exchange email accounts. It’s not perfect yet, but we decided we would rather get your feedback instead of trying to get it to a perfect state on our own 🤘.
@redkix@oudiantebi@ashley_mw congrats on the release. The compelling aspect here is the integration of email in the realtime chat workflow.
Coming from Red Hat I often struggled with keeping up with IRC and mailing list logs at scale. So I can see the value there quite clearly, and the "rooms" aspect with email fallback looks quite graceful.
Two questions that come to mind are:
1. Are there other features that you feel make Redkix stand above the likes of Mattermost or Slack or even IRC in terms of core features? Or directions you can talk about in your roadmap that diverges from those experiences (e.g. there's definitely room for multiple players here, but how so)?
2. Like many growing startups we've consolidated heavily on Slack as our core platform at Corilla. We rely on it as our notification engine for our integrations ranging from GitHub Issue activity, customer activity (support, purchases, conditional actions), notifications of brand discussion, community, etc. What's your battle plan for dealing with just how sticky Slack is for companies like ours - as it's gone from comms tool to centralised platform?
@redkix@ashley_mw@davedri Thanks for the note David! on your first point I'd say this, what makes Redkix, especially Redkix channels different than other team messaging groups/places/channels, is the fact that we allow "out of network" users to participate in the conversation. This means that anyone can be included in a channel even if they have never signed up for Redkix.
Since I've been doing this for a long time, I learned that the #1 reason for these tools to not stick around in many cases is that you just need to convince everyone to join a new tool and if they don't you just end up getting drawn back into the one tool where everybody does participate - emails . Every future feature we will be adding to the product will respect that core model, whether it's video and voice or anything else will keep being inclusive. I hope this makes sense
as for your second point, we definitely see the huge value in adding integrations and are actively working on it. so stay tuned :)
would love to help if you decide to get your team on the product!
@redkix@ashley_mw@oudiantebi thanks for the insights. I could see this actually appealing to some of the open source projects that have fragmented between email purists and UX-hungry/design-oriented teams preferring centralised app experience.
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This is all I ever wanted in an app!
Finally a tool to collaborate & manage my emails, I'm in love! 🙌🙌🙌🙌
@redkix@oudiantebi yup sure :) I can't wait so downloaded a will give it a try. By the way, I got few feedbacks for you guys the app is crashing when I try to login before I signup and when I click login there isn't a way to go back to signup.
@redkix@sivaram636 can you send me a mail so I can connect you with our engineer directly?
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The main reason I never got to the Slack buzz is the lack of pure email integration. The need to get everyone on board with Slack. So this is a real game changer. Amazing work. Are you guys considering integrations with 3rd party services (trello etc..)?
@gazzer82 If you're using Missive and it does the job well for you I'd recommend you stay with it. In general I believe that people shouldn't switch for the sake of trying something new but rather try something new if you have a use case you're trying to solve and the current tool doesn't do the job.
Our focus is on team channel collaboration that can include email users that don't want to join a new tool and would rather stay in email. This is relevant for cases where you have team members not willing to ditch outlook / gmail, when you need to create a tight collaboration workflow with an external partner or even when you want to collaborate with customers.
In addition we make it easy to take an email and move it to a channel and make it part of the team collaboration flow. We're not focused so much on having a chat on an incoming email in the inbox.
I hope this helps.
@gazzer82 I wrote a post comparing the two products
https://missiveapp.com/redkix-vs...
Excerpt:
> One core precept of Missive is that the internal conversation you have with your team is different than the one you have with the outside world. It's not at the same level, it's faster and more transparent. Plus, the outside world speaks in emails, and as such, you should still be equipped with the best email tools.
> In Missive, everything external is emails, everything internal is chat. Both, merged in unified conversations.
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Any plans to offer something that is completely on-premise? I work at a financial institution. There is no way we would use something like this that isn't on our own network.
@grberk Hey Glenn, we do not plan to offer our service entirely on premise but we do have plans to offer a solution that is more hybrid for regulated industries. if you want to reach out directly to me oudi@redkix.com I'm happy to better understand what you are looking for and see if we might be a good fit. We are already working with large companies that have same needs. Thanks!
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