hello humans of HN. sina here, founder and ceo/cto of integral.

i’ve built integral for 1 philosophical and 1 practical reason. i want to become the replacement to slack/discord/circle/etc for online communities and possibly organizations too.

launching early and admittedly a bunch of features are missing, but i’m already migrating a paid online community that i run from slack to integral. building daily!

practical reason: most human wisdom and specific knowledge is never documented and therefore never transferred. altho a big chunk of it is shared via text or audio online. i wanna capture that maximally at source (group chats) but give users the ownership and the option to share or keep private.

philosophical reason: most people live a lifetime and die without ever fulfilling their potential, at the time when a small segment of the population has the mental models that, if presented at the right time and place, could help everyone make better decisions that’d increase their quality of life. broken knowledge/wisdom transfer pipeline/flywheel.

some other thoughts: i believe more and more people will seek to join niche tribes every year, to feel belonging AND to get answers is specific questions.

currently people use reddit or some group chats on some messaging app out of desperation. but these interfaces are from 20 years ago. they get noisy as more people join , the best people and knowledge get lost in their infinite feeds, and there are 0 relationship building features in them.

i wanna bring [back] social graphs, knowledge graphs and a human-in-the-loop flywheel to group messaging, so that as more people talk about specific things that matter, they’ll contribute to building niche AI models that they, not our platform, can choose to share and even sell.

i imagine open AI would pay a lot for niche datasets that they can’t just scrape from reddit or somewhere.

looking for early feedback/adopters/supporters