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There is competition out there, they just haven't made enough noise yet. See Fleep for example: https://fleep.io/ , Rocket Chat etc.

Just out of curiosity, why riot.im out of all the open source alternatives to Slack and similar tools?

Slack definitely started from the software niche, but is far from the only player in the field. Others mentioned Mattermost, Discord, but really, there are so many viable options o…

Imagine, there's an app with Slack's functionality that already has such interop with email as you've built here :) Fleep: https://fleep.io/ Anyone who does not want the group chat…

Email was built as a digital version of snail mail. I guess good old mail services are conversations in a way - but both snail mail and email are more for sharing information than …

Email wasn't designed to be used the way we use it now. It's not a to-do list protocol. In fact, as Paul Graham has put it, it's a disastrously bad todo list (Source: http://www.pa…

In fact, Slack users have reported an average of 50% reduction of internal email (source: https://slack.com/results ). But you're right, Slack is a closed system, and thus it canno…