320px
We’re building 320px: real-time conversations for teams, to replace team chat and email in one place. Its AI will help carefully and show its sources, and it will be open source under Apache-2.0, so anyone can host it.
Open source and plans are coming soon
Preview of 320px in development
Live drafts. You’ll see a teammate’s message as they write it, as Google Wave did. A marker will tell you when others can see your words, and you’ll be able to show only that you’re typing.
Threads and inline replies. You’ll be able to reply to one sentence inside a message, and new replies will appear without a reload.
Catch me up. It will write a private summary of what you missed, labelled “Generated” and linked to the messages it used. AI features will stay off until an admin turns them on, and then the content you ask about will be sent to Anthropic.
Your AI assistant. You’ll be able to connect Claude, ChatGPT or another assistant through MCP. It will read only what you can read, and what it finds will come with links to your messages.
Public and private spaces. Open community conversations on 320px.com, next to your organization’s own space. Organization spaces will be encrypted with a key for each organization; public spaces won’t be.
How it will work
320px is in development. These are the ideas we’re building first, from Google Wave’s live conversations to AI that shows where its answers come from.
Messages will appear as they’re written, so a quick question gets a quick answer. You’ll always see when others can read your words, and you can choose to show only that you’re typing.
Start a thread from any message, or reply to one sentence inside it, so the main conversation stays easy to follow.
Catch me up will summarise what you missed since you last read, privately, with a link to every message it used. Everything 320px’s AI writes will be labelled “Generated”.
An MCP server will let Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants read and post as you, within the rules your organization sets.
You’ll be able to host open community conversations on 320px.com, and keep your organization’s conversations in a space encrypted with its own key.
You’ll be able to step through how a conversation or a shared document came together, one change at a time, as Google Wave’s playback did.
Google Wave, revisited
Google Wave (2009 to 2012) introduced live, threaded conversations that mixed chat, email and shared documents. Google later gave the code to the Apache Software Foundation, where it continued as Apache Wave until 2018. 320px is a modern revival of Google Wave, built on the open-source Apache Wave code. The history of Google Wave
Team chat and email
Many teams split their day between a chat app and an inbox. 320px is being built to hold both: quick back-and-forth when you need it, and conversations that stay readable later.
There will be channels, direct messages and group messages, with live drafts, reactions and replies in threads.
Topics and threads will stay easy to follow, and you’ll be able to search every conversation you can read.
Email will arrive in the same conversations, with shared inboxes for teams. Nothing will be sent until someone chooses Send email.
Open source
320px will be open source under the Apache-2.0 licence. Anyone will be able to run it on their own servers, and we’ll run the public instance at 320px.com. The repository isn’t public yet.
Pricing
This is how we plan to price 320px when it opens. Nothing is on sale yet, and the plans may change before launch.
Free on 320px.com
$9 per user per month, planned
Free under Apache-2.0
Planned prices are in US dollars, before tax. There’s no checkout yet. How we plan to price 320px
Questions
Can’t find your answer? Email hello@reachoutlabs.ch with your question.
Google Wave was a tool for live, threaded conversations that Google introduced in 2009. Google stopped developing it in 2010 and gave the code to the Apache Software Foundation, where it continued as Apache Wave. Google switched its own service off in 2012, and Apache Wave was retired in 2018. 320px is a modern revival of Google Wave, built on the open-source Apache Wave code. The history of Google Wave has the details and sources.
No. 320px is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google or the Apache Software Foundation. We use the names Google Wave and Apache Wave only to describe where the idea and the design come from.
Not yet. 320px is in development, and we haven’t set a release date. Join the waitlist and we’ll email you when there’s something to try.
We plan to keep the public instance at 320px.com free. Organizations are planned to cost $9 per user per month, with an AI allowance included and extra AI use billed monthly by usage if an owner turns it on. Hosting 320px yourself will be free under the Apache-2.0 licence. None of these plans is on sale yet, and they may change before launch.
Yes, once the code is published. 320px will be open source under the Apache-2.0 licence, so anyone can run it on their own servers with PostgreSQL. AI features will be optional and use your own API key. The repository isn’t public yet.
Yes. We plan to encrypt each organization’s conversations on our servers with a key for that organization. It won’t be end-to-end encryption: that would stop search, AI features and connected assistants from working. Some details, such as who is in a conversation and when messages were sent, won’t be encrypted. Public spaces won’t be encrypted, because anyone can read them.
Nothing changes for now. If you use 320px email, sign in as usual: your account, your email, your plan and your billing stay as they are. We’ve stopped taking new email sign-ups while we build the new 320px, and we’ll email you before anything about your account changes.
Waitlist
We’ll email you when there’s something to try. The two questions are optional, and your answers help us decide what to build first.
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Apache Wave, Wave in a Box and Apache are trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. Google Wave is a trademark of Google LLC. Claude and Anthropic are trademarks of Anthropic, PBC. ChatGPT is a trademark of OpenAI. Slack is a trademark of Slack Technologies, LLC. Microsoft Teams is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. 320px is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by The Apache Software Foundation, Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, Slack or Microsoft.