OP here: we originally posted Spot on HN around a year ago with a product that really focused on a virtual workplace for companies. This was driven by our personal experiences and having had very real connections with other people via online gaming (UO anyone?). We wanted to bring this sense of connection and community to remote work and the enterprise.

Since then, we’ve found that our most successful customers are the ones who use Spot as a full-fledged Slack alternative (in addition to a virtual office). We’ve doubled-down on this and are building a powerful team chat implementation directly inside the product. Unlike a lot of other “spatial chat” solutions out there, you will find that we have the most robust and familiar chat implementation. Things like channels, reactions, threading, search, etc. are table stakes, but we also have named topics and are planning on a message-retention policy that is more friendly to the free tier.

Please try it out and would love some feedback from the HN community on both our product and team chat in general!