Embeddable community support?

Michael Brill Technology startup exec focused on AI-driven products

October 22nd, 2015

We have a two-sided marketplace currently with a single buy-side community and are migrating to a model with a number of private buying groups. Each of these groups needs their own private communication mechanism and I'm trying to figure out some options to keep everything within the site.

Something like you see in Meetup.com, although maybe a more modern version (e.g., like an embedded Slack). Has anyone either seen sites that do this well or, for extra credit, software/services that make it easy to extend existing sites?

Shobhit Verma

October 23rd, 2015

Michael, Zulip is now open source (pretty much like Slack)

https://zulip.com/features/

http://thenextweb.com/dd/2015/09/26/dropbox-releases-its-chat-app-zulip-under-an-open-source-license/

Kejia Tang CEO at Hacknocraft

October 23rd, 2015

For web, check out Spot.IM. For mobile, check out AppFriends.me.

Dan Dascalescu Developer Advocate at Google

October 23rd, 2015

If you want an embedded discussion forum, Discourse is the best.

If you want an open-source embedded chat app where you have full control over the data, RocketChat is the best choice because it's built with Meteor, a JavaScript-only platform. Dropbox's Zulip is built with Python and JavaScript, so you'll have to expend more engineering resources to extend or configure it.

ChrBaudry

October 22nd, 2015

I have a virtual meetup app where people can interact with each other by video.

ChrBaudry

October 22nd, 2015

I also have a web app where people within a group can discuss with each other by video and the admin can talk separately with each group.

Michael Brill Technology startup exec focused on AI-driven products

October 23rd, 2015

Cool, thanks everyone... I'll check these out.

Michael Brill Technology startup exec focused on AI-driven products

October 25th, 2015

Just a quick pass through everything but nothing seems to support my scenario where I need each of the user-defined groups to have its own community space that is created automatically.

Seems like everything's set up for one big community on a site.