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One app to rule them all
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𝔏aurent 𝔇el ℜey
Station — One app to rule them all
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Station unifies all your web apps in one neat & productive interface

🛠 A Smart Dock to organize your workflow

🔎 Unified Search to find anything quickly

🔔 Notification Center to stay in control

👉 Give it a try: stationhq.com
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Jamie Martin
Unacceptably bad UX to require people to sign up for your mailing list before allowing them to download your app
Alexandre Lachèze
Maker
Oh sorry @livejamie, was not supposed to be that way. You are supposed to get the download right after entering your email. Was this the case?
Jamie Martin
@al3xstrat That's the point I'm making. It's scummy to gatekeep your download behind a mailing list sign up. It's also really poor for conversion rates.
Alexandre Lachèze
Maker
@livejamie ah ok gotcha! That's the choice we made because we want to keep touch with interested people while letting them try the application. We'll think about a different flow in the next versions, with your comment in mind! Were you able to try the app finally? That's in the app we put all our UX energy actually :) What do you think of it?
Alexandre Lachèze
Maker
@livejamie updated with your comment in mind! Thanks!
Robin Good
I would like to write a short review of Station. What I cannot figure out if there's a version of Windows and for other OSes. On the site there is no link to a download page and I'm offered a Mac download. On this page it is categorized as a web app. This is confusing. Can you kindly clarify?
Alexandre Lachèze
Maker
@robingood There is a version for MacOS and Windows for now, indeed not very clear. Correcting the categorization then, thanks!
Dillon Carter
Initial thoughts: This is great, but needs some work. Pros: Everything in one place with a great deal of addons (although not true integrations if I'm not mistaken) Cons: No SSO, not true integrations and could use some processing efficiency as it seems a bit heavy at times. I'm also a power user on most things, so for the average person it may be perfect. I'll continue using this though :)
𝔏aurent 𝔇el ℜey
Hunter
👋 Station is the best workflow improvement I've made recently. I've been a beta tester of Station for the past few months, that's why I am glad to hunt it today! All the places of the Internet where I like to spend time (Twitter, Slack channels, Github, Feedly, GDrive, Dribbble...) were spread among Chrome tabs, Desktop apps, and Menu bar icons. Now, it's all gathered in Station. The "commute" among these places disappeared. Going from a place to another now feels as easy as switching among Slack channels. Give it a try. Cheers!
Gabriel Radic

Does its job but lacks proper integration and custom features

like they have in Wavebox and Rambox.

Pros:

Cute, clean UI

Cons:

Poor feature set compared to Rambox and Wavebox

Chris Kluis
Pros: nice way to have numerous apps "bundled" Cons: no clean differentiation between "personas" I may have an account for each "persona" Persona example 1: marketing agency; need to switch between clients and have twitter, google analytics, etc for each client Persona example 2: personal vs work accounts on the same apps EDIT: after adding/deleting outlook it keeps me logged into a bad account and won't let me start from scratch
Alexandre Lachèze
Maker
@ckluis thanks for the "personna" feature. We are considering it, but it's not our top priority for now.
Jean-Patrick Labouyrie

An app instead of multiple tabs in a browser. Battery and RAM will arbitrate.

Pros:

Simplicity

Cons:

Untimely logout from apps

Guy Malachi
Great product, thanks! I just wish there was the ability to mute notifications for certain applications. Currently I had to turn off notifications entirely since I couldn't control which apps show notifications.
Balaji R
This looks cool! How long does it take for the download link to appear in my inbox? Or.. am I doing something wrong?
Alexandre Lachèze
Maker
@_theimmortal_ it's should download straight after your entered your email.
Balaji R
@al3xstrat Got it! Thanks.. is there any way to add our own instance of JIRA or GitHub? I'm sure a lot of companies maintain their own private instances of these services.
Jamie Rytlewski

I just received an email saying Station knew I had stopped using it. I was away from my computer for a week. Super creepy that they are keeping logs. I personally do not trust them any more and won't be using it anytime soon.

Pros:

I liked how it could put all the apps in app.

Cons:

For now stop being so creepy.

Alexandre Lachèze
Maker
Hi, we are taking this comment into consideration. Regarding privacy, you can find your answers here: https://intercom.help/station/da...
Marat
C'mon man, every single app out there does that. If you had an app wouldn't you want to know how many active users it has, etc?
Jamie Rytlewski
@maratryndin yeah, i'd want to know how many active users, but I got an email from them stating "We've noticed that you started using Station and then suddenly stopped. Would you mind telling us why?" It was within a week of using the app. People get busy. I didn't like that they knew who I was exactly and how much I was or was not using it. The sites we track we know a GUID does 'x' but we have no way of referencing that GUID back to the user. There are ways of getting analytics without tying it to an identifier. And really, after reading their privacy policy, do they really need to count the number of clicks a user makes.
randi miller
@maratryndin @jamierytlewski Nothing creepy about that. Pretty much every company/app/software/whatever does that now. It's the norm now.
Just S

I absolutely LOVE Station! For me, this is by far the cleanest and lightest experience of any of the recent aggregation-type apps.

I had been using Rambox and still enjoy that product, especially the open source nature and approach of @saenzramiro, but it does seem to run a bit heavy and I really prefer the UI/UX of Station. I haven't noticed any lag at all with Station and I can't say for certain, but anecdotally, Station's feature for putting apps to sleep when not actively in use appears to keep things very snappy!

I love that I can have a single Slack instance and access all my Slack channels there. Franz and All-in-One have this, but Rambox creates a separate app instance for each Slack channel. This can be a nightmare for people with many channels. Same for Hangouts. Wish Gmail could be aggregated.

I have also used loads of these apps including most recently Franz 2.0 and 3.0, All-in-One Messenger, FreeterPro, and Alternion. And back in the day, Jolicloud, Hootsuite, Fuse, Socialblend, and Hojoki. Station fits my workflow and style better than any of the others. I also appreciate the active community and the ability to have the forum as one of the apps directly inside of Station.

The few frustrations that I have are minor, but worth noting.

1. Station does not support very many extensions.

Extension support is my top request. It's been so long since I ran Chrome without adblock that I didn't know Google still placed spam in Gmail! What I miss most is though is Lastpass support.

2. Links open in a proprietary Station browser window.

This means if I want to take any action on that page/info, which requires an extension (i.e. clipping to Evernote), I have to re-open the url in my primary browser. This doesn't happen in all apps with all links, but it is frequent enough to be an annoyance. I can usually resolve it with a right-click + "Open link in default browser", but that doesn't work on buttons or images.

3. We cannot add any app that we like.

This is where Rambox earns its spot toward the top of this space. With Station we have to make a request and wait and hope that enough other people use/have requested the same app. Not a big deal, but I sure would love to have Milanote in Station with the rest of my frequently opened pages. :-)

Well done @al3xstrat! Appreciate this awesome tool!

Pros:

Fast, clean, easy to setup, great performance, great UX, huge number of supported apps

Cons:

Can't add unsupported apps on your own, links open in a proprietary Station window, doesn't support most chrome extensions

Stefan Natter
@al3xstrat any plans for an access password? Like Rambox has it. To open the main app and use the installed services, you have to enter a password. I really like this feature, because it lets you keep certain services (eg. WhatsApp) more secure. Besides that, awesome app!
Alexandre Lachèze
Maker
@natterstefan great suggestion! We have password manager support on our roadmap!
Noé Malzieu

I've used Station for a few months now, as a beta tester, and I can't believe how much it has improved and changed my daily habits!

Pros:

I'm a bit obsessive about having a "clean" computer : Station helps me so much by putting all my SaaS in the same place!

Cons:

Once I get a password manager : none!

Florent Darrault
How does is compare with the open-source Rambox ? http://rambox.pro/
Alexandre Lachèze
Maker
Hi @archimac I think Rambox is closer to Franz, and both are focused on communication apps. With Station, we focused on gathering every work applications (communication, CRM, project management..) in 1 place. Personally, I used Franz for all my personal communication channels and Station for my professional workspace. It helps me focus.
Raz Karmi
Been using it since its launch but for some reason it stopped functioning on my windows machine... any support?
Fᴀʀʜᴀᴅ
Disappointing that this requires login with a Google Account. I was really looking forward to using this but our IT policy disallows the use of Google's services.
Rizwan
Looks amazing in the video. Is there any way to download without giving my email. I don't want to subscribe to something at first try
Alexandre Lachèze
Maker
@rizzu26 I understand, not for the moment. You are free to unsubscribe though.
Vikas Ranjan
This is probably the best app I have discovered on Product Hunt in a long-2 time
Alexandre Lachèze
Maker
@vikasr111 very happy we brought it to Product Hunt then! :)
Arlo Gilbert
I love this concept but so much of my utility on the apps you support depend on chrome plugins. What would be required for you to support chrome plugins? I assume this is all built on Webkit, being able to enable chrome plugins would be huge and make this a game changer for me.
Alexandre Lachèze
Maker
Hi @arlogilbert we started supporting some selected Chrome plugins few weeks ago with Mixmax, Clearbit and 2 other ones. We plan to support more, just let us know the ones you'd like to see in Station? Technically, Chrome plugins internals are implemented in Chromium, not directly in Webkit. Electron, the framework on which Station is built, is based on Chromium — but without the plugin internals we had to add ourself.
Nick Frost
@al3xstrat @_johnvaljohn_ @mathieudebit @jberthom @g_montard I've downloaded Station (I love the name, btw!) and am logging into apps I see. A few questions - Can you expand on what kind of security you have for this app? Is it like Apple where information is stored locally vs. globally or what? Also, how can I suggest a site to be included in the "Curation & Sourcing" section? Thanks again!
Alexandre Lachèze
Maker
@thinker regarding privacy. Except few telemetric data that helps in the development of the product, everything stays local. Naturally, all the applications running in Station (Slack, Gmail..) have their own privacy model. You can read more in our privacy policy note [1] To suggest a new site, you can type the name in the "app store" search and click "request". [1]: https://station.slite.com/public...