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Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer

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Post by scott_karana » Thu, Mar 21, 2013, 5:40 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #24

jedberg wrote: post #9

Earlier 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.

Looks nice to me! You've got my email now. :)

Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer

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Post by rgrieselhuber » Thu, Mar 21, 2013, 5:42 PM UTC

kayoone wrote: post #23

For <5 people, what does this give that a Skype Group conversation cant especially as people will need to instal/use another client ?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416691

Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer

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Post by powdahound » Thu, Mar 21, 2013, 5:44 PM UTC

thomaslutz wrote: post #29

Please release the self-hosted version, and we will start using it.

We're working hard on it. If you'd like to get on the list early, and help us by providing some info, please check here: https://www.hipchat.com/firewall

Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer

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Post by axyjo » Thu, Mar 21, 2013, 5:45 PM UTC

orangethirty wrote: post #26

propelledjeans wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You've been paying for 6 users. You're still paying for 6 users.

Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer

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Post by aneth4 » Thu, Mar 21, 2013, 5:47 PM UTC

orangethirty wrote: post #26

propelledjeans wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm sure if you write a nice letter of complaint, you'll get your $100 back and have a pizza party.

Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer

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Post by namityadav » Thu, Mar 21, 2013, 5:49 PM UTC

jtchang wrote: post #22

Awesome. 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 knowin…

Do you mind sharing more details about your decision making process, the services/tools you are using as IRC hosts/clients, etc?

Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer

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Post by AJ007 » Thu, Mar 21, 2013, 5:49 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #24

jedberg wrote: post #9

Earlier 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.

Does anyone have IRC as a service? I used to run an IRC server for my company, but as mentioned, there is the maintenance part. There is already more work that needs to be done than hours to do it.

I would like to see more start ups utilize existing protocols such as RSS and IRC.

Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer

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Post by StavrosK » Thu, Mar 21, 2013, 5:51 PM UTC

AJ007 wrote: post #37

StavrosK wrote: post #24

Earlier 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.

Does anyone have IRC as a service? I used to run an IRC server for my company, but as mentioned, there is the maintenance part. There is already more work that needs to be done than hours to do it. I would like to see more start ups utilize existing protocols such as RSS and IRC.

There was a company, but I think they shut down. I can't remember the name now, but it was, basically, hosted IRC.

Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer

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Post by namityadav » Thu, Mar 21, 2013, 5:54 PM UTC

kayoone wrote: post #23

For <5 people, what does this give that a Skype Group conversation cant especially as people will need to instal/use another client ?

We tried using Skype with our remote team. Of the top of my head, the following problems made us switch: (a) Reliability (We were losing a lot of messages between people. Especially offline messages) (b) Duplicate messages (As all of us have multiple machines, we were getting a lot of duplicate messages, depending on which machines were on and logged-in, and when) (c) Poor search (Searching months old messages is a major hassle in Skype)

Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer

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Post by Fauntleroy » Thu, Mar 21, 2013, 5:57 PM UTC

jtchang wrote: post #22

Awesome. 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 knowin…

Shameless plug here, re: "IRC is fairly hard to use if you aren't familiar with it already"

I'm currently working on a web based IRC client called Relay.js (https://github.com/Fauntleroy/relay.js), which is my attempt at making IRC a little more approachable. It's pretty basic at the moment, but I hope to make it something really special in the coming months.