This is awesome news. I use hipchat every day for two different organizations. Great product.
HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
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Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
#22Awesome. I am just looking into chat options for our small but growing team.
As an aside I think IRC is being sold short on this chart:
https://www.hipchat.com/compare
Nothing wrong against it since it is mosting a marketing comparison chart. IRC is fairly hard to use if you aren't familiar with it already so I get it.
We decided to try out an IRC channel because it was easy to get started, no cost really, and knowing how to connect to IRC is important if you ever want to get support inside #python or #django. Plus lots of other open source projects have IRC so it is good to know.
Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
#23For <5 people, what does this give that a Skype Group conversation cant especially as people will need to instal/use another client ?
Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
#24Aside from the phone applications, what makes Hipchat better than say, Skype?
It's more like IRC, and the one thing that really makes it better is the chat history (which you could do with an IRC bot, but then you have to maintain that). The push notifications when someone messages you when you're offline are pretty nice too.
> which you could do with an IRC bot, but then you have to maintain that
That's exactly the use case for which I started building http://www.getinstabot.com/, but I haven't seen much interest, sadly.
Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
#25Six people are $12 a month. Five people are $0 a month.
If you hire a sixth person, I'm sure you can afford $12 a month.
Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
#26Six people are $12 a month. Five people are $0 a month.
If you hire a sixth person, I'm sure you can afford $12 a month.
But what if I'm an old customer with 6 people on the team? Now I see that they are giving away what I have been paying for. Not a very strategically sound decision.
Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's more like IRC, and the one thing that really makes it better is the chat history (which you could do with an IRC bot, but then you have to maintain that). The push notifications when someone messages you when you're offline are pretty nice too.
> which you could do with an IRC bot, but then you have to maintain that That's exactly the use case for which I started building http://www.getinstabot.com/ , but I haven't seen much interest, sadly.
Great idea. I signed up. Please keep developing the product!
Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
#28This is great news. If you want to see why HipChat makes sense: take a look at our integration with HipChat
https://www.blossom.io/blog/2013/03/12/take-a-look-at-our-ne...
If you have a product that creates more value for your customers if you integrate with HipChat this is now a no-brainer :)
Revenue wise integrating was definitely worth it for us.
Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
#29Please release the self-hosted version, and we will start using it.
Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
> which you could do with an IRC bot, but then you have to maintain that That's exactly the use case for which I started building http://www.getinstabot.com/ , but I haven't seen much interest, sadly.
Great idea. I signed up. Please keep developing the product!
Thanks, interest is what will motivate me enough to work on this. I saw your email, I'll email you soon to ask you some things, if that's okay!