Talk about the work, right where it lives.
Channels, DMs, and threads built into the same workspace as your projects — with presence, reactions, and rich text. And when talk turns into work, one click makes it a task.
Beto13:58
Docs page is live. Last blocker is the Safari crash QA found this morning.
Ana14:02
On it — repro’d. Filing it so it doesn’t get lost:
Duda is typing…
Decisions get made in chat — then lost there
The plan lives in your tracker, but the real conversation happens in another app. You paste links back and forth, decisions get buried in scrollback, and by Friday nobody remembers why the scope changed. And it’s yet another subscription, yet another place to search.
dotby puts chat in the same workspace as the work. Every project gets its own channel, any message can become a task with the context attached, and task IDs unfurl into live cards right in the conversation.
A chat that pulls its weight
All the rooms you need
Workspace channels for teams and topics, 1:1 and group DMs, and a #general ready on day one. Every project can have its own channel, provisioned automatically the first time you open its Chat tab.
One place to talk — no tool switch, no dead channels.
Threads without the noise
Replies collapse under the original message, one level deep — no infinite thread caves. And thread replies never bump the channel’s unread badge, so a side conversation stays a side conversation.
Follow-ups stay attached; the channel stays calm.
Alive, in real time
Messages arrive live for everyone — no refresh, no polling. See who’s online, away, or offline from the sidebar, and watch the “is typing…” row while an answer forms.
Chat that feels instant, because it is.
More than plain text
The same rich-text editor as your tasks: formatting, code blocks, @mentions, and images. Attach files up to 25 MB. React with emoji, and bookmark messages to your Saved list for later.
Say it properly the first time.
From message to task in one click
Create a task from any message — title, description, and a backlink pre-filled, project pre-selected. Type a task ID like DOT-42 and it unfurls into a live card with status and assignees.
Decisions become tracked work, not scrollback.
Calm by design
Chat never floods your inbox. Unread badges and a NEW line mark exactly where you left off — and that’s it. Edits say “(edited)”; deleted messages leave a quiet placeholder so threads still make sense.
A chat you check on purpose, not out of anxiety.
The gap between “we should” and “it’s tracked” is one click
Someone spots a bug in the channel. Instead of “can you file that?”, hover the message and hit Create task. dotby pre-fills the title from the first line, carries the full message into the description with a link back to the conversation, and pre-selects the project when the channel is linked to one.
- Create task from message — title, description, and backlink filled in for you.
- Live task chips — type DOT-42 and it unfurls with status and assignees.
- Project channels — every project gets a Chat tab, provisioned on first open.
Ana14:02
The onboarding modal crashes on Safari when the workspace has no projects yet.
Bug · Launch · linked to #launch
A full chat, not a comment box
One login, one bill, zero context-switching
Chat lives beside your boards, docs, whiteboards, and schemas — same sidebar, same people, same dark/light theme. No extra subscription, and no exporting decisions from one app into another.
Bring the conversation home
Team chat is part of dotby Pro — one price per seat, everything included.