Congrats on the launch - seems like a neat product. A few questions: 1) It seems like you iterated on a bunch of ideas that landed in this - what were some interesting features that the team was really interested in that you ended up killing? 2) What were the most non-intuitive hard technical challenges? 3) Have you successfully ended up having someone give up on Slack to use this?
1. Spatial canvas based browser (we called it Sail). Had people who loved it but their team refused to learn it. Spatial tools are just incredibly niche and difficult to get started (besides Google Maps).
2. Auto updating across Mac and Windows (in 2024!!). Google Omaha is hard to setup, Sparkle is jank on Windows. Throw in binary delta support and it's an oof.
3. Our team builds Muddy on Muddy and ditched Slack when product got stable. Few other beta users and their companies as well. Slack is super sticky and has some terrific workflows, but more "quality" conversations today happen natively in apps and almost all apps have commenting functionality. Just easier to talk next to the context. So a lot of Slack convo's become "where is X" and we think Muddy will stop the need for those questions all-together.
Yeah auto update on Windows is a mess. One way to get it is to use MSIX, in which case Windows will delta update your app for you, even when it's not running (Chrome style) but without the need for special servers. Unfortunately old Windows versions have a lot of bugs. My company sells a product that makes all that easy to deal with and works around the bugs but it was a hard slog to get it all working well.
Congrats @alexarena and team for launching 1.0! Been following this team for a while and really excited to see their launch. Curious how would you say this is different than retool? Also can you share more on where does the code actually run?
Thanks! On the differences between Retool: the output (customer support tools, admin dashboards, etc.) is pretty similar between both products, but _how_ those tools are built is really different.
Something like Retool gives you a drag-and-drop UI builder, Interval is made for backend devs and lets you create UIs directly in your backend code. So you don’t need to learn another drag-and-drop tool or frontend framework.
Re: where the code actually runs… this is another really cool component of Interval. We host the UI for you on interval.com but the actual backend code (including everything sensitive like your environment variables, business logic, etc.) runs on your infra and Interval can’t see it by design.
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Thanks! We're working on device support across the board, improved privacy scoring, and toying with the idea of adding Google's Perspective - https://www.perspectiveapi.com.
Apple Safari support in the future? Also, if I'm using a self-updating malware blocklist within extensions such as Ablock Plus, how would Apozy do better than that to prevent phishing?
The reason why we're better at that than an AdBlock is because we use a whitelist approach. When using a whitelist, all the newest sites and attacks are blocked by default. AdBlock will always be slightly behind on that. Additionally, AdBlock won't protect you from inputting your credentials into a phishing site if you somehow end up on a bad site. As a side benefit, since we don't scan the DOM, we don't slow anything down!
