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Business software is so good now, that it’s competing with consumer software

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Re: Business software is so good now, that it’s competing with consumer software

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Post by cocktailpeanuts »

How does he go from "Zoom is great" to "Business software is so good now, that it's competing with consumer software"?

His only supporting example is Zoom. Then he goes on to generalize the shit out of it which is not really that convincing.

Zoom succeeded in consumer space because of COVID, period. Good for them, but I don't like people who spin stories. Even before covid I've known about Zoom for a while as some nerdy videoconferencing software, but never saw it as a high quality consumer app.

Re: Business software is so good now, that it’s competing with consumer software

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Post by bonyt »

> At one point, business software had no choice but to stop being clunky and terrible to use, because nobody wanted to walk into work to use shitty software.

There’s still a lot of clunk out there in some industries. Maybe it’s just legacy software and an unwillingness to change, but my life as a lawyer at a large law firm involves a lot of clunky software and a poor laptop with its fans permanently spinning from it.

Re: Business software is so good now, that it’s competing with consumer software

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Post by throwanem »

cocktailpeanuts wrote: post #21

How does he go from "Zoom is great" to "Business software is so good now, that it's competing with consumer software"? His only supporting example is Zoom. Then he goes on to generalize the shit out of it which is not really that convincing. Zoom succeeded in consumer space because of COVID, period. Good for them, but I don't like people who spin stories. Even before covid I've known about Zoom for a while as some ne…

I know a lot of folks who heavily use Trello to organize their personal lives.

He's wrong about Slack, though. That mindshare among people who don't already use Slack at work, and even among many who do, belongs overwhelmingly to Discord.

Re: Business software is so good now, that it’s competing with consumer software

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Post by soulchild37 »

Lol have you ever used Quickbooks, and have to integrate their API to your server? It’s clusterfuck and their server down like once a week.

I work for a enterprise (yes boring write code to generate pdf report from database etc), integration with business software API always gave us headache.

Re: Business software is so good now, that it’s competing with consumer software

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Post by shankarganesh »

soulchild37 wrote: post #26

Lol have you ever used Quickbooks, and have to integrate their API to your server? It’s clusterfuck and their server down like once a week. I work for a enterprise (yes boring write code to generate pdf report from database etc), integration with business software API always gave us headache.

I mean it's getting a lot better isn't it? I'm sure there's someone already building a QuickBooks which you don't have to struggle with so much, to use.

Re: Business software is so good now, that it’s competing with consumer software

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Post by shankarganesh »

AnonsLadder wrote: post #28

I'm surprised the author and no one has mentioned Telegram Messenger, they are very huge. The simple appearance of it makes it perfect for personal & professional use, it looks more inviting than Discord and Slack, imo.

I know a lot of businesses (non-tech) in India who use WhatsApp groups for talking to their teams. But it's the other way round - consumer software getting adopted by teams isn't it?

Re: Business software is so good now, that it’s competing with consumer software

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Post by ZephyrBlu »

return1 wrote: post #24

Zoom is not business software. Even slack barely is. Both have free version for the masses which is crucial to their success. A fair comparison would be with something that does not have free tier.

It's bottom-up business software. Apparently this is a common approach in B2B these days. Figma is another example of bottom-up B2B software.
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