Infrastructure and Domain Strategy
- Subdomain Routing Implementation
- Transitioned to root domain-based routing (output.app)
- Developed mechanisms for workspace and agent chat URL handling
- Explored complex redirect and navigation challenges
- Prepared for multi-tenant infrastructure with domain-level separation
Rich Text Editing Breakthrough
- Implemented advanced Tiptap/Prosemirror rich text editor with comprehensive features
- Native undo/redo functionality integrated
- Custom emoji generation for messages
- Improved markdown-like formatting support
- Enhanced link handling and text transformation
Mobile Development Progress
- iOS Development Enhancements
- Explored Hotwire’s UINavController for improved navigation
- Investigated redirect and routing mechanisms
- Prepared mobile app for TestFlight beta testing
- Refined iOS app interaction and user experience
- Text Editor and Interaction Improvements
- Simplified typing focus behavior
- Implemented custom extensions for markdown-style formatting
- Enhanced emoji handling and rendering
- Improved keyboard interaction and routing
Development Workflow
- Continued transition from previous branding to Output
- Preparing for public beta and platform launch
- Iterative improvements to communication platform capabilities
Our team remains committed to creating a seamless, intuitive communication experience through continuous refinement and thoughtful design.
Key Highlights 🚀
- Richdown Text Editor Launch: Deployed a revolutionary text editing experience powered by Tiptap, bringing advanced markdown, formatting, and emoji support to our platform
- Agent Chat Evolution: Implemented comprehensive sharing capabilities, making collaboration and communication more seamless than ever
- Workspace Navigation Refinement: Continued improving our Electron app’s multi-workspace support and overall user experience
Detailed Improvements
App Stability Enhancements
- Implemented Prosemirror’s native undo/redo history management
- Prevented unintended history preservation after message sending
- Simplified Tailwind class management to reduce potential rendering conflicts
- Added more robust error handling for message composition and editing
Text Editing
- Implemented advanced markdown and formatting capabilities
- Added native Prosemirror support for enter/line break handling
- Integrated custom emoji extensions
Agent Chat
- Merged Pull Request #80 for advanced chat sharing
- Refined button interactions and sharing UI
- Improved cross-platform chat functionality
Electron App
- Pushed new staging build with multi-workspace navigation
- Improved workspace switching and UI responsiveness
- Optimized rendering of complex UI components
Infrastructure & Design
- Updated emoji CDN to stdout.host
- Configured production and staging asset hosts
- Continued exploration of domain names (favoring output.app)
A week of significant progress in making our communication platform more intuitive, powerful, and user-friendly!
📅 Smarter Message Timestamps
- Added day and date next to message summaries (e.g. ‘Thursday 03/28/25’)
- Helps users quickly understand message chronology without manual calculation
🔔 Improved Channel Member Notifications
- Automatically generate announcement messages when new members join a channel
- Includes direct links to new member profiles for instant team connection
📱 Mobile Experience Enhancements
- Fixed critical mobile layout bug causing unwanted zoom on input fields
- Ensures consistent text size and prevents accidental interface interactions
🤖 Advanced Agent Chat Capabilities
- Created new tools allowing AI agents to directly manage channel memberships
- Streamline team organization through conversational channel creation
- Example: Users can now say “Create a CX channel and add Minsuk”
- Debugged and resolved LLM (Language Model) error handling
- Prevents system errors during AI-powered message summaries
- Improves overall stability of automated communication features
🔜 Coming Soon
- Investigating push notification solutions
- Exploring workflow automation tools to further streamline team communication
Continuous improvements, powered by your feedback.
🚀 Overall Project Progress
Last week, the team made significant advancements across Echo’s ecosystem, focusing on specific UI/UX improvements, infrastructure enhancements, and tooling integrations.
ECHO Project Developments
🎨 UI and Design Improvements
- Flipped summary message detail view order for better pagination (ECHO-186, commit 7bffb34)
- Implemented CSS to hide untitled agent chats in index view (ECHO-165)
- Specifically uses CSS
display: none for untitled chats
- Maintains navigation accessibility
- Fixed mobile UI image width stretching issue (ECHO-116)
- Stylized Echo output design (ECHO-109)
- Added max-width (
max-w-2xl) for code and pre elements to improve readability (commit ec2f0ea)
🤖 Agent and Chat Features
- Added ‘Summarize Day’ functionality (ECHO-83)
- Create new AgentChat thread when summary requested
- Attach all messages from selected day
- Dynamically generate summaries
- Refined agent chat title generation (commit 9276a58)
- Only regenerate titles for specific user requests
- Prevents unnecessary title mutations
- Integrated Notion workspace read tool (ECHO-157)
- Developed GitHub integration tools (ECHO-182)
- Added Octokit for GitHub client
- Implemented organization and repository collaboration queries
- Reorganized tool documentation dynamically (commit c6fb413)
- Resolved runaway job queue configuration issues (ECHO-162)
- Fixed retry configuration during exception handling
Desktop Project (DESK)
🖥 Desktop Application
- Moved desktop app signing to synthetic organization (DESK-2)
- Added Sentry for application monitoring (DESK-4)
- Excluded
/healthz from SSL redirect (commit 260b7e5)
Mobile Project (MOB)
📱 Mobile Development
- Completed Turbo Native initial setup (MOB-1)
- Implemented environment switching solution (MOB-2)
GitHub and External Integrations
- Added GitHub Personal Access Token with organization access (commit e194ebf)
- Integrated Octokit for programmatic GitHub interactions (commit 6b7155f)
- Migrated input schemas to JSON format for better type safety (commit 2d1e4fa)
🔧 System Improvements
- Updated dependencies, including Babel helpers to v7.26.10
- Improved error display mechanisms (commit 8b3590e)
Technical Debt and Optimization
- Cleaned up old data after workspace migrations (ECHO-96)
- Refined summary processing logic (commit a894963)
Key Metrics:
- Projects Touched: 3 (Echo, Desktop, Mobile)
- Linear Tickets Closed: 11
- GitHub Commits: 20+
- Focus Areas: Precise UI improvements, infrastructure integration, tooling refinement