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Friends vs Sameroom: What are the differences?
What is Friends? Like Slack except P2P, offline friendly, and open source. Friends is like Slack except P2P, offline friendly and open source. We transmit data over secure channels and authenticate messages. It's made by a group of open source developers who are motivated to make a public chat platform that is easy to use but isn't centrally controlled, and where data is owned by its users.
What is Sameroom? Chat interoperability-as-a-service. Sameroom bridges real-time communication systems. Share channels between Slack teams. Bridge a Skype or Hangouts group with a channel on Slack. Connect a team on Slack with a team on HipChat, Gitter. Manage all your customer support queries as a team, from Slack. Respond to Intercom, Twitter, or Skype customer support questions from your team chat.
Friends and Sameroom can be primarily classified as "Group Chat & Notifications" tools.
Friends is an open source tool with 3.05K GitHub stars and 356 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Friends's open source repository on GitHub.