In the past few years, thither has been an explosive increase in the number of messengers and services for team work - Slack, HipChat, Gitter, Kato - you can list for a long time (here in that respect is a small comparison of so much services).

Each of these products has its own strengths, but one drawback is that they are all isolated from each new and, choosing one of the systems, users cannot contact lens users of competing services (the choice of using several services in parallel is non considered to be obviously phantasmagoric). The creators of the Sameroom fancy definite to rectify this state of affairs.

The problem is isolation

The market for teamwork tools is ontogenesis chop-chop, almost all month new interesting projects appear, simply there is a reason why such diversity creates problems for users: this is the isolation of so much systems.

If one of the teams inside the initiative uses the Slack messenger, and the other uses IRC, past if in that respect is a need for contact between the representatives of these two teams, they will involve to use some 3rd service, in which everyone is sitting (for example, email or Skype). Is it necessary to prove that this is very inconvenient?

Honestly, the current situation recalls the prehistoric times when, for good example, there was no possibility of integrating Microsoft Mail and Indian lotus Notes. In 2015, so much closing off of popular platforms looks at least eerie.

The new project Sameroom project is designed to help users of different communication services communicate with each other.

How it works

Presently, 7 platforms are available for integrating: IRC, Campfire, HipChat, Flowdock, Slack, Gitter and the Kato.im messenger we created .

The essence of Sameroom's work is to create a "pipe" (hereinafter without quotes) from a certain way of one platform to a confident room of another (or the same) platform. Through such a pipe, messages published in each of the two suite connected by it are sent to another room.

Gum olibanum, users of Slump or Gitter can commune with colleagues who favour Kato or HipChat.

Details related to authorship of messages sent through Sameroom, features of notifications about them, and others are described on the project FAQ page .

At that place are two ways to make up pipes - directly, if you have access to two commands, or by creating a "portal". A vena portae is a link to a room surgery channel through which anyone pot create a tube to it from their chat. Thus, IT is possible to connect non rigidly two teams, merely any number of them. In the process of creating a portal, information technology is possible to specify who will invite the pipes - the proprietor of the portal, Oregon the creators of the pipes.

Issue cost

A separate subject is the price of victimization such a unifying service. The creators of Sameroom wealthy person provided several options for its use. For example, 30 messages per hour through the pipe hindquarters be conveyed for unfreeze (the counter is readjust at the beginning of each 60 minutes) - this modal value is suitable to fair-and-square attempt how it works. In most cases, this bandwidth is clearly insufficient, so there are paid pipes that send an unlimited number of messages.

The price of the negligible paid program is $ 9 per calendar month - for this money the user gets the chance to function up to 3 active paid pipes at the synoptical time.

On that point are too plans that allow the concurrent use of busy 40 active nonrecreational pipes (Favoring plan for $ 49 per month) and equal to 500 active prepaid pipes (Enterprise contrive for $ 399 per month).

An measurable manoeuver: the drug user of the minimum paid plan potty create dozens of paid pipes, only most of them he will have to deactivate, leaving a maximum of 3 of them active. Otherwise, all of his pipes will frontwards no much 30 messages per hour.

In addition, Sameroom has an internal currency called roomcoin. Each of these virtual coins has a nominal prize in paid pipes - the lucky ones who manage to get such a currency can significantly save.

Close

As IT became known to the Kato team, the immediate plans of the creators of Sameroom are working on expanding the list of platforms for consolidation and fixing possible errors and problems. We invited one of the team up members to Habr (@sameroom), so you can ask him all the questions in the comments to this topic.