Talk and share knowledge
with your

co-workers

customers

students

volunteers

users

community

customers

co-workers

using the main features from StackOverflow and Slack:

Start a Talkyard forum at https://talkyard.your-company.com

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Use Talkyard for:

Your non-profit. Listen to those you help, and your volunteers.

Your students. Answer their questions. Let them help each other.

Your startup. Talk with your users. Find product market fit.

Your company. Q&A for your teams and customers.

Your open source project, for your users and contributors.

More use cases

A Knowledge Base of Questions & Answers

Instant answers — save time

You'll find answers directly, if something has been asked before. Talkyard looks it up for you.

Everyone gets help

List unanswered questions.

Scale your support

Add more customers / co-workers, without increasing the support load so much. They'll find old answers, and can help each other.

Ideation

Gather ideas

Improve your products / organization

Choose the right ideas

Discuss the ideas. Good reasons for/against surface to the top.

Avoid mistakes

See if others disagree with something. Read the replies, to find out what the problem is.

Your teams

Easy onboarding

Your new members learn how things work, by reading earlier questions and answers. The knowledge stays, when someone leaves.

Insight and transparency

Organize discussions into categories, one for each team in your organization. And see what each team is doing / talking about. (Except for private discussions)

Reach the right people

Post a question to a team, and the right people will answer. No need for email addresses or phone numbers. And you don't need to know exactly which person to contact, only which team.

Team chat

Get work done together, in team chats. Add a public support chat, for quick questions.

Talkyard's chat is fairly basic. Slack, and others like Mattermost, Zulip and RocketChat, are better. You can use them for chatting, and disable Talkyard's chat, and use Talkyard for Q&A / ideation / and structured discussions that are good to remember long term.

Your blog

Blog comments

Add comments to your blog, or technical documentation. And talk with your blog visitors. Read more here.

Your mobile app

Help your app users

Let your users to ask for help, without leaving your app: Embed Talkyard in an <iframe> in your app (or website). Experimental.

Unique features

Recent replies — find them

You return to a threaded discussion the next day — and want to find new replies? Just open the sidebar, click the Recent tab.

Other software — like StackOverflow, Reddit, HackerNews — require you to re-read the whole discussion from top to bottom, to find any new replies.

Jump and save time

Navigate large discussions, also on mobile: Click to jump to the parent comment and refresh your mind. Then click Back, to continue reading.

Shape your Community

Custom branding: Change colors and the top navigation bar to match your main website. Use Like and Unwanted votes to encourage good behavior and staying on-topic. Work in progress.

Free and Open Source

Install Talkyard on your server. Automatic software updates. Single Sign-On and API. One installation can host many communities.