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To all the people asking about self-hosted alternatives, I can recommend zulip[0], and this article[1] explaining why. [0] https://zulip.com/ [1] https://monadical.com/posts/how-to-make-remote-work-part-two-zulip.htm…

So happy for you, thats a wonderful milestone! I love especially that you share all the nitty-gritty details that so many would hold back (e.g. raw revenue/profit numbers, where bootstrapping savings came from, failures along the way, etc.). It's so important for people to share success stories without sugar coating the difficulties, good, undiluted positive feedback provides so more information than generic negative posts like "VC funding sucks". https://monadical.com/principles.html#:~:text=telling%20someone%20a%20…

Previously at EI2030, we were using Discord, and it wasn't easy to find and keep track of information as we were growing. We've transitioned to Zulip and couldn't be happier. The article from monadical describes it best: "...[Zulip] creates an organized repository of knowledge as a side effect" Thank you to the Zulip team! https://monadical.com/posts/how-to-make-remote-work-part-two-zulip.htm… https://ei2030.zulipchat.com/

Monadical (https://monadical.com) | Senior Full-Stack Engineer / Senior Unity Developer | Full-Time | Montreal / Mexico/ Argentina | REMOTE We're a full-stack consultancy, committed to building software that outlasts us. We have a wide variety of interesting projects including building unified data formats for neuroscience labs to share data sets, developing custom medical software for doctors, creating platforms for real estate agencies, crypto and more. We're growing quickly and we’re short on engineering talent. We're looking to hire Senior Unity developers and Full-stack engineers with strong Python and/or JS/ Rust experience, who are driven and want to play a lead role in growing an exciting company. We have dedicated time for self-improvement, blogging, talks, and contribution to FOSS. Our goal is to be a workplace with a strong focus on learning, where client projects provide a base of capital for us to all work on dream projects of our own. We have an inclusive, transparent culture with a public company principles handbook. See more info and apply here: https://monadical.com/team.html#careers If you have any questions, drop us an email at [email protected] We’re looking for: - Senior Full-Stack and Front-End developer strong at Python and/or JS, experience in client relations, project management, design, Django, React. Experience with mobile is a plus. - Senior Unity Developer with experience in game programming or multimedia project and C#…

A big benefit of the organization provided by every message being in a topic is that it makes finding this more efficient. E.g. if you remember that Steve made a joke about donuts in the conversation, you can search for messages sent by Steve mentioning donuts, find the topic, and from there find the actual conversation. I do this to find months-old or years-old conversations several times a week. If you're curious to hear more, https://monadical.com/posts/how-to-make-remote-work-part-two-zulip.htm… talks about this idea in more detail. I also highly recommend making use of Zulip permalinks to conversations in issue trackers and other resources -- my anecdotal sense is most projects using Zulip do that a lot (the Zulip development team certainly does). Certainly the main feedback we've gotten on the zulip.com domain transition is "Will my permalinks keep working???". (Yes, they will).

There are many solutions for constrained/structured generation with LLMs these days, here is a blog post my employer published about this a while back: https://monadical.com/posts/how-to-make-llms-speak-your-language.html I'm partial to Outlines lately, but they all have various upsides and downsides. OpenAI even natively added support for this on their platform recently: https://openai.com/index/introducing-structured-outputs-in-the-api/