Ten Years of Franz

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• shawn_w 1 hour ago
  Apparently not about the makers of Allegro Common Lisp¹ and assorted graph database tools.

  1: https://franz.com/

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  • bigbuppo 48 minutes ago
    I too was confused.
• block_dagger 55 minutes ago
  Any Franz users here? How does the unification of multiple apps help with managing comms? Is it truly better than using the different native apps?
• hypfer 34 minutes ago
  I'm impressed that an electron wrapper around web.whatsapp.com and web.telegram.com could make it to 10 years.

  Thanks ZIRP I guess.

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  • fragmede 16 minutes ago
    That's incredibly dismissive of a product that some people find valuable enough to pay money for it. I'm not sure what ZIRP has to do with that, the post states he didn't take VC funding. Is UX not important to you?
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    • hypfer 11 minutes ago
      Yes, precisely. That was the point.

      Judging the product by its merits/substance and not by its storytelling/hype/hustle.

      UX is important to me! That's why I do not use the inferior web client of telegram wrapped in electron but the real qt one.

      Or, alternatively, I just pin the tab in my browser. The UX is so good there, you can even do some surfing beside the chatting.

      Almost feels like the good old times of presto-based opera.
• smithcoin 52 minutes ago
  I used Franz and then went it went freemium I used ferdi for a while. I like using Zen browser and it’s based on Firefox