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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…
For <5 people, what does this give that a Skype Group conversation cant especially as people will need to instal/use another client ?
I've found these benefits:
- Works on all of my devices. If someone @mentions me, it'll notify my phone just like a text message and/or email me (unless I disable that). And I can reply from my phone's hipchat client.
- Chat rooms and 1-on-1 work seemlessly. Chat rooms can also be public or private.
- History is persistent and searchable.
- Sharing files is as easy as a click. Sharing screenshots/mockups/images is as easy as copy/paste (we use this a lot)
- On the right-hand side of the chat room there is a list of all links & files shared in the room that you can easily search through.
- You can have guest access in chat rooms.
-It integrates with github and other services so that when we do certain things with our repository, it will notify one of our chat rooms.
And a million other little things. There is no single feature that made me think "I must use HipChat, this is awesome.", but rather a bunch of minor things that "just worked" and fit nicely together into a great experience.
It's worth every penny.
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…
Aside from the phone applications, what makes Hipchat better than say, Skype?
The biggest difference is that HipChat is primarily about "rooms" and less about messaging individual people (although you can do that too). It makes for much better team workflow, because it enables a lot more passive information sharing. Most people in a room don't want to be actively involved in everything, but they would like to passively just see what's going on. Secondly, it's centralized around a company, so y…
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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.
This 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.
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There was a company, but I think they shut down. I can't remember the name now, but it was, basically, hosted IRC.
Your are thinking of http://grove.io from Leah Culver of Pownce and Convor. Convor shut down and she started Grove, still there and running plus it has a sensible revenue model.
For <5 people, what does this give that a Skype Group conversation cant especially as people will need to instal/use another client ?
BTW, you don't have to share your entire screen just the app you want them to see.
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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.