Shopify is acquiring the Threads team

jsheard 1 year ago |

For clarity that's Threads (the Slack clone), not Threads (the Twitter clone)

solardev 1 year ago | |

Thanks for the clarification. I thought it was Thread, the IoT home automation protocol and that they were moving into Alexa-like features or something. So many different technologies with the same name :(

richbell 1 year ago | |

https://threads.com/

mostlysimilar 1 year ago |

Interesting, I wonder if Threads was a Rails app.

gordon_freeman 1 year ago | |

I know Shopify founder is a big fan of Rails and RoR framework from a documentary [1]

So does not surprise if he is doing this as an acqui-hire to get more quality RoR Devs to join Shopify!

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDKUEXBF3B4

willsmith72 1 year ago | | |

are they not all-in on remix/js now? or is the backend side all still rails?

solardev 1 year ago | | |

Does Remix come close to Rails in terms of dealing with things like auth and databases and such?

willsmith72 1 year ago | | |

well it depends.. remix is just the compiler, your backend is just whatever node/cloudflare/whatever framework/libraries you want. so no, it's nothing like rails in the batteries-included sense, but if someone built their server using node previously, it's the exact same using remix

willsmith72 1 year ago |

i'd never heard of threads.com, but now can't even see their landing page. it's just about the acquisition. good luck googling it too

what was threads.com?

codetrotter 1 year ago | |

Here is a snapshot of threads.com from a few months ago:

https://archive.is/mWdxZ

It says:

> Threads is a workplace communications tool.

> Designed for teams of...

and then:

> Threads are made up of blocks, arranged to organize ideas.

> In 4 easy steps, we'll show you how to use them to share updates, meeting notes, plans, documents, announcements, questions, and presentations.

Further down are some images of a workplace messenger that looks like somewhere between an email client and Slack.

threeseed 1 year ago | |

It was a clone of Slack:

https://framerusercontent.com/images/gtX6DuzLQKg1ObGx4vz6jlN...

codetrotter 1 year ago |

For a moment I thought it was about the Instagram Threads team, and I thought surely not.

Then I saw that the tweet mentioned Instagram Threads when skim reading and I was confused.

But no. This is about a startup named Threads that was approached by Instagram for the domain Threads.com that this startup owned. And this startup ultimately got aquired by Shopify.

sshine 1 year ago | |

Without this context, I simply did not understand the post. There are too many products called threads.