Grove.io was originally Convore, a real-time chat web application created by co-founders Eric Florenzano, Leah Culver, and Eric Maguire. [1]
PC World said "It works as a news aggregate as well as a question/answer forum for its myriad of topics"; [2] according to MIT Technology Review , it had "the polish and responsiveness that most new sites of its ilk lack." [3]
In January 2012, Convore pivoted into Grove.io, with a focus on providing services for businesses, and touting as a core feature that it was based on IRC. [4] The imminent closure of the Convore service was announced on their own website and on Twitter in February. [5] [6]
In October 2016, Grove.io announced that they were closing down, and recommended users to use Slack as a replacement. [7]