Show HN: Bema: Work messaging built for humans
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Hi HN! I'm Ben, the founder of Bema. I've been frustrated with the current state of work messaging software for a while now, and I've heard similar complaints from friends and coworkers. (Too many channels, easy to lose things, distracted from actual work.) I set out to build a platform that would encourage asynchronous communication with an option to break glass if needed. Here's the result, let me know what you think.
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- Nov 3, 2026
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Show HN: Bema: Work messaging built for humans was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 3, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 24 checks on 2 different days, across 2 lists (Hacker News · Front page, Hacker News · Show HN). Its best position was #19 of 30, reached on Nov 3, 16:07 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 5, 08:49 UTC.
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| Hacker News · Front page | #19 | 1 | 11 | |
| Hacker News · Show HN | #17 | 1 | 13 |
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While I applaud the sentiment here how many people work for an organisation that would be ok giving full Slack access to something like this, especially given the complete lack of information on how that data is being processed beyond an incredibly vague mention of Cloudflare in the privacy policy?
Derrick Reimer tried this a bunch of years ago with Level. In short, it didn’t work. But many of us understand the desire for something like this. His repo: https://github.com/derrickreimer/level
The no interruptions thing is neat but oh god, tags? Zulip's got the channel/topic thing right. You join the #engineering channel and then there's the "PostgreSQL migration" topic. Any new system has to not be shit at threads like slack is.
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Is Show HN: Bema: Work messaging built for humans trending on Hacker News right now?
Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 5, 08:49 UTC, after 2 days of trending.
What is the highest rank Show HN: Bema: Work messaging built for humans reached?
#19 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 3, 16:07 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
How long has Show HN: Bema: Work messaging built for humans been trending?
It was first seen on Nov 3, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (24 checks) since.
How much discussion did it get on Hacker News?
27 points and 20 comments; submitted by ben_d on Nov 3, 2026.