Hacker News with Generative AI: Collaboration Tools

Show HN: Exponent, a collaborative AI programming agent (exponent.run)
Exponent is an AI programming agent capable of collaborating on software engineering tasks in any environment.
A Virtual Whiteboard That Has a Thinking Assistant Baked In (ycombinator.com)
What do you guys think about a virtual whiteboard that has a LLM baked in as a thinking assistant providing insights and suggestions based on what your writing and helps you brainstorm?
Meet – Open-source alternative to Google Meet and Zoom (github.com/suitenumerique)
Powered by LiveKit, Visio offers Zoom-level performance with high-quality video and audio. No installation required—simply join calls directly from your browser. Check out LiveKit's impressive optimizations in their blog post.
A European alternative to Google Docs that won't read your files (xwiki.com)
It’s 2025, and data privacy is needed now more than ever. Governments are tightening control, surveillance is expanding, and the companies hosting your files aren't transparent or regulated. Every file you edit, every idea you draft, and every conversation you have is stored on their servers, potentially accessible to advertisers and third parties.
Show HN: Tangled – Git collaboration platform built on atproto (tangled.sh)
Tangled is a new social-enabled Git collaboration platform, built on top of the AT Protocol.
Show HN: Emdash – Slack/Zoom alternative for distributed team collaboration (emdash.io)
emdash is a unique approach to distributed teamwork. Our video and chat platform streamlines alignment, execution, and knowledge management.
When AI promises speed but delivers debugging hell (nsavage.substack.com)
I am launching a new app today: Codescribble. Codescribble is a basic shared text editor. Two or more people can open the same file and work on it at the same time, like a basic Google Doc. This focuses on quickly getting you and collaborators on the same document quickly.
Replit, the Figma Replacement (nicbertino.com)
There was, suddently, a lot of chatter about how Replit is the new Figma. As a Figma and Replit user, I thought it might be helpful to the product design community to explain in longer form what’s at stake and cut through some of the intentional ambiguity around how Replit and Figma fit into a product development workstream.
Show HN: Amurex – An open source AI meeting copilot (sansyrox.github.io)
CEO of a moderately big tech co replaces Figma with Replit (twitter.com)
Show HN: Flows – Google Colab meets Notion, designed for AI workflows (athina.ai)
Jumpstart your flows by using templates made by the community
Show HN: HEXPlore – A Collaborative Hex Viewer (hexplore.dev)
Show HN: A Cursor for Video Editing (frameapp.ai)
Edit videos with natural language, collaborate with others on projects, and create stunning content effortlessly.
There's Almost No Gitlab (danjou.info)
Do you guys support GitLab? Is there any way this can work with GitLab? Does this support merge requests?
OpenDesk: Flexible office and collaboration suite for public administration (opendesk.eu)
openDesk is the flexible office and collaboration suite for public administration.
Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = a hybrid of Word and Excel (tenno.app)
Show HN: Sync – A real-time company brain (singulatron.com)
Sync. Real-Time Collective Intelligence Connect your team to your own powerful in-house AI hub that selectively and securely disseminates information within your organization.
Microsoft 365 alternative: openDesk version 1.0 announced for October (heise.de)
German-funded openDesk aims to end reliance on Microsoft with open source tech.
Show HN: Selectric – macOS Search for Gmail, Outlook, Drive, Slack (selectric.io)
Spend less time hunting with search that actually works!
Keep Microsoft Teams Status Available with PowerShell (virtualdeskchief.com)
Logseq – adding settings for self-hosted sync (github.com/logseq)
Retirement of Office 365 connectors within Microsoft Teams (microsoft.com)
Microsoft365 apps now support OpenDocument Format 1.4 (LibreOffice Format) (microsoft365.com)
Overleaf: An open-source online real-time collaborative LaTeX editor (github.com/overleaf)
Google Meet rolls out multi-device adaptive audio merging (googleblog.com)
Show HN: An open source alternative to some of Slack AI's premium features (github.com/meetbryce)
Automerge 2.2: Rich Text (automerge.org)
Opengist: Open-source alternative to GitHub Gists (github.com/thomiceli)
Gitlab Duo (gitlab.com)