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Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Slack. Apparently.

My current employer doesn't use Slack and instead uses XMPP and a web front-end called "Movim". I can tell you right away, it is shit. I'd gladly pay 10k/year for the privilege of using Slack, so please don't bash on it until you realise how bad the alternatives are.

Ever checked out Rocket Chat? Open source solution that is extremely similar to Slack and you can self host.

https://rocket.chat/

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait until you get Slack, then you can revise your statement.

I've used it for talking to third-party clients that hire us and I don't see why should I revise my statement. It just works, it does the job just fine. The only complaint is that the desktop client melts my battery but given that I run it in the browser it isn't that big of a deal. Also, I forgot to mention - we did have an Slack clone called Mattermost running and the overall response from the dev team has been pos…

Maybe they'd like matrix?

https://matrix.org/docs/guides/faq.html

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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an AR headset that allows us to work on 50, 60 inch displays where ever we are, without having to mount large displays to walls etc.

What's your business that you guys like to work on large displays?

We design User Interfaces for Web and Mobile development teams (http://fairpixels.pro). Working on large displays seriously increases productivity.

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've used it for talking to third-party clients that hire us and I don't see why should I revise my statement. It just works, it does the job just fine. The only complaint is that the desktop client melts my battery but given that I run it in the browser it isn't that big of a deal. Also, I forgot to mention - we did have an Slack clone called Mattermost running and the overall response from the dev team has been pos…

Maybe they'd like matrix? https://matrix.org/docs/guides/faq.html

Well we already had a proven self-hosted Slack alternative called Mattermost that pretty much everyone enjoyed. The push for XMPP is because some of those fanatics live in a parallel world where everyone is using XMPP and they'd be able to talk to people on other servers with it. Of course reality is very different.

I'm leaving soon anyway so I wish them the best of luck with this (and I feel bad for some of the people who actually wanted to get work done instead of fighting with broken and outdated tools).

Re: Ask HN: What problem in your business is worth paying 10k/y for?

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Anything that any salesman or customer service employee mentions that plugs into salesforce. A mail button for sales force ? A print button for salesforce ? A make my phone call customer button inside salesforce button? Oh sweet only $20 per month per salesman....so we have 50 people on salesforce so only 1,000 a month, only $12,000 a year? This should help get us out of dept so fast !!! FML.

Interesting, I have no direct experience with salesforce but I have heard numerous people discuss similar things as either consultant centric services or outright business models. Is this that common?
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