<story><title>Show HN: Booklet – Async forums as an alternative to chat</title><url>https://www.booklet.group/</url><text>I built Booklet to solve the problem of too many chat messages at work.&lt;p&gt;Booklet updates classic internet forums and email groups to have a modern UI and high polish. It organizes communications into threads, and summarizes activities into a neat email newsletter - so members can stay updated without having to stay logged in. The async format promotes deeper discussions, while also increasing engagement by making conversations easy to follow.&lt;p&gt;My goal is to make communications more asynchronous - so that I can get back to work, instead of slacking all day. Most early communities have been hobby groups, but my goal is to mature Booklet into a tool that sits alongside Slack in companies.&lt;p&gt;Try it out, and let me know what you think!</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>denysvitali</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a bit lost, even after trying the demo I can&amp;#x27;t understand why this should be better than, say, Discourse.&lt;p&gt;Your implementation is probably not based on Ruby - which makes it more interesting - but it&amp;#x27;s not open source. In terms of features, they don&amp;#x27;t seem to compare at all as this is really early stage.&lt;p&gt;The idea behind the project is good, and I think this is the future.
I successfully pushed the company I work for to use internally a Discourse instance to overcome the same issues you faced - and it works. We now have an &amp;quot;internal StackOverflow&amp;quot; and an engaging community. It&amp;#x27;s not a new concept (see Google&amp;#x27;s YAQS), but it&amp;#x27;s a (IMHO) working one that many more companies should adopt as it really increases knowledge sharing and productivity!&lt;p&gt;Best of luck with your project, I think you&amp;#x27;re on the right path but you should definitely start comparing this to Discourse and define why should anyone get this - and why must it be SaaS (some big companies are against SaaS for their stuff).</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Booklet – Async forums as an alternative to chat</title><url>https://www.booklet.group/</url><text>I built Booklet to solve the problem of too many chat messages at work.&lt;p&gt;Booklet updates classic internet forums and email groups to have a modern UI and high polish. It organizes communications into threads, and summarizes activities into a neat email newsletter - so members can stay updated without having to stay logged in. The async format promotes deeper discussions, while also increasing engagement by making conversations easy to follow.&lt;p&gt;My goal is to make communications more asynchronous - so that I can get back to work, instead of slacking all day. Most early communities have been hobby groups, but my goal is to mature Booklet into a tool that sits alongside Slack in companies.&lt;p&gt;Try it out, and let me know what you think!</text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tbird24</author><text>I would give my left arm to be using internet forums again. Online communities adopting Discord and Slack was such a terrible move in hindsight.&lt;p&gt;Definitely rooting for this to take off.</text></comment>