Why developers like Spectrum

What is Spectrum?

The community platform for the future.

Spectrum is a tool in the Group Chat & Notifications category of a tech stack.

Spectrum is an open source tool with 10.8K GitHub stars and 1.2K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Spectrum's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Spectrum?

Companies

4 companies reportedly use Spectrum in their tech stacks, including Tipe, Ogury, and My “Go To” Stack.

Tipe

Ogury

My “Go To” Stack

FlamelinkCMS

Developers

18 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Spectrum.

on the daily

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My Stack

Decisions about Spectrum

Here are some stack decisions, common use cases and reviews by companies and developers who chose Spectrum in their tech stack.

StackShare Editors

Apr 24, 2019 | 6 upvotes · 1.3M views

Needs advice

Slack

Discord

and

Gitter

From a StackShare Community member: “We’re about to start a chat group for our open source project (over 5K stars on GitHub) so we can let our community collaborate more closely. The obvious choice would be Slack (k8s and a ton of major projects use it), but we’ve seen Gitter (webpack uses it) for a lot of open source projects, Discord (Vue.js moved to them), and as of late I’m seeing Spectrum more and more often. Does anyone have experience with these or other alternatives? Is it even worth assessing all these options, or should we just go with Slack? Some things that are important to us: free, all the regular integrations (GitHub, Heroku, etc), mobile & desktop apps, and open source is of course a plus."

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Spectrum's Features

Chat
Slack bot
Private channels
Home feed
Search

Spectrum Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Spectrum?

Slack

Imagine all your team communication in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. That’s Slack. All your messages. All your files. And everything from Twitter, Dropbox, Google Docs, Asana, Trello, GitHub and dozens of other services. All together.

Jira

Jira's secret sauce is the way it simplifies the complexities of software development into manageable units of work. Jira comes out-of-the-box with everything agile teams need to ship value to customers faster.

Trello

Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process.

G Suite

An integrated suite of secure, cloud-native collaboration and productivity apps. It includes Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Meet and more.

Confluence

Capture the knowledge that's too often lost in email inboxes and shared network drives in Confluence instead – where it's easy to find, use, and update.

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