The movie Arrival (2016) covers this topic nicely. Apart from that it's also an excellent movie all overall.

This just blew my mind.. Thx a ton!

Do you plan to make async (the tool) public in any way? I'm pretty interested in that.

btw: I really love your companies "chattyness" on all types of knowledge that you guys gain! :o)

We get asked this a lot and unfortunately don't have any immediate plans to release it in any way. It's pretty tied into Zapier and would involve a decent chunk of work to decouple the code base to make it more general.

Someday it would be good to release.

You can probably replicate it with P2 the WordPress theme which is where we started before building Async.

What made you decide to build Async in house?

P2 wasn't working for us. We wanted something that used the same authentication as Zapier so it could just be one account. We also had a few other features we wanted to customize a bit too.

+1 this would be great for our team. Things get lost in chat, and email really isn't great for group discussions. Plus most email has a bit of a formal tone in our company, but Async looks like due to the reddit style people would be a bit more relaxed and we could develop some culture that way.