Nikki and I actually met at Meta and we really enjoyed using Workplace. When we tried using it with just us two, it fell short and wasn’t built for small product teams (ie. newsfeed ranking, integrations with tools in our workflow).
That’s very interesting since right away after looking at the demo I thought about how it reminded me of workplace in mechanics. I’m wondering what exactly you see as a value proposition of Patchwork over Workplace since for teams under a certain small size both are probably overkill but otherwise i see they solve a similar problem in a similar way :))
We both still think Workplace was a magical product. Unfortunately, because it was a direct fork of Facebook's codebase, it was never really built from the beginning with work in mind and is very much built for very large companies. Patchwork was built from the beginning with product teams in mind, so you'll see everything from our integrations to builtin workflows are much more geared towards that.
I could have guessed this. I've advocated for workplace but Meta is too untrendy nowadays and people are too biased to accept that the feed, in a workplace scenario, is actually extraordinary. kudos to you 2!! rooting for y'all
I was at a company that used it and it was pretty fine. Especially since it has the same patterns as regular facebook it was fairly easy to use for a lot of newcomers.
I think it might have been dropped for being too expensive, the per seat cost was significant.
I also have a workplace account in one nonprofit society and it’s also pretty cool to be used there.
