We’ve focused on making chat and video work together so distributed teams can stay aligned without drowning in information. You can try it here: https://emdash.io.
It frustrated us how easily important conversations would happen and then disappear. Slack never quite matched how we worked. Channels were too coarse which led to noisy notifications and broken search. Zoom meetings weren’t much better–unless someone took perfect notes (which rarely happened), video calls became black holes of lost knowledge.
We spent too much time trying to find the information we needed to do our jobs.
To address this, we’re testing a few concepts and would appreciate your feedback on the value of the following:
(1) Automatically record, summarize, and transcribe your team’s video chats. We store meeting content directly inside discussions to facilitate search and discovery.
(2) Make it easy to manage & organize conversations of varying scope. A chat between team members can be forked into a dedicated Discussion with its own audience permissions and subscription. Individual messages or entire Discussions can be moved after the fact. Conversations can evolve unpredictably, so having the right tools to keep them organized post-hoc was important to us.
(3) Improve search with AI and hierarchical information retrieval. We use LLMs to uncover insights, summarize content, and connect the dots across related discussions, meetings, and documents. You can ask questions like “What are the team’s priorities this week?” or “What did we decide to do with feature X?” and get back a generative response AND deep links into the original chats and meetings.
Try it out: https://emdash.io and tell us what you think!
Is it due to some (technical) reason that would require a monetary compensation to be profitable?
SSO has security benefits (on top of the maintainability aspect) which would also benefit small businesses.
Security is not a differentiation method. It's table stakes for any technical product. That's what the above linked website explains.
Security as table stakes, sure. SSO, certainly not.
It's an additional cost, last I checked it was between 10$ and 20$ per user per month if you take the cheapest option and outsource it.
This whole notion of "Unless you meet this security standard that 99% of products don't meet, your product hasn't met table stakes" is nonsense and needs to die.
SSO will get cheaper in the future; for now it's hard for a product development team to justify getting 0$ in revenue just because of some purity test by irrelevant folk on the internet.
It's not a binary flag, it's a spectrum. "Defense in depth" is a thing, and that means a layered approach to security.
Just because a product is missing SSO does not in any way mean that that product fails any security check.
IMO, holding the position that not having SSO is the same as not having security is unreasonable.
Missing SSO does not magically make the other $FOO layers of your security vanish into the ether.