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Re: Slack Platform Launch

#21

Post by michael_fine »

tomasien wrote: post #13
chuhnk wrote: post #2

I feel like the world has lost it's mind slightly. When a 2 year old startup launches an $80m fund. I mean I understand they want to be a platform and can see the strength in funding projects that will empower a platform model but still. This is the point at which I think we're really in a boom heading in that bubble direction, and I was never one to fall in to the trap of calling it a bubble before. Love slack, love…

Slack makes a ton of money and it is unimaginable to me (and many others) that it's not going to be a massive force. It has been a revelation to literally every entrepreneur I know - and I'm from Virginia not SV (although I recently moved to NYC - same deal). Now that it has established itself beyond almost any doubt, its INVESTORS have established an $80M bet around those who make the company a core component of the…

Genuine question -- how how is it been a revelation? It seems to be very similar to HipChat, which was just an iteration on previous chat systems.

Re: Slack Platform Launch

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Post by radlad »

michael_fine wrote: post #21
tomasien wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slack makes a ton of money and it is unimaginable to me (and many others) that it's not going to be a massive force. It has been a revelation to literally every entrepreneur I know - and I'm from Virginia not SV (although I recently moved to NYC - same deal). Now that it has established itself beyond almost any doubt, its INVESTORS have established an $80M bet around those who make the company a core component of the…

Genuine question -- how how is it been a revelation? It seems to be very similar to HipChat, which was just an iteration on previous chat systems.

The difference is people like using it. UX counts for a lot.

The massive amount of integrations for it helps a lot too. Their goal, from what I've read, is to be a giant log for everything in your company, not just a chatroom service.

Re: Slack Platform Launch

#23

Post by studentrob »

tomasien wrote: post #13
chuhnk wrote: post #2

I feel like the world has lost it's mind slightly. When a 2 year old startup launches an $80m fund. I mean I understand they want to be a platform and can see the strength in funding projects that will empower a platform model but still. This is the point at which I think we're really in a boom heading in that bubble direction, and I was never one to fall in to the trap of calling it a bubble before. Love slack, love…

Slack makes a ton of money and it is unimaginable to me (and many others) that it's not going to be a massive force. It has been a revelation to literally every entrepreneur I know - and I'm from Virginia not SV (although I recently moved to NYC - same deal). Now that it has established itself beyond almost any doubt, its INVESTORS have established an $80M bet around those who make the company a core component of the…

With free self-hosted open source alternatives like Rocket Chat and Mattermost entering the scene, along with easy internal installation from Sandstorm, does a new business really need Slack?

Re: Slack Platform Launch

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Post by jsmeaton »

jmspring wrote: post #18
tomasien wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you ever even USED Slack? The apps are amazing, it's 50% of why people use Slack. There have been apps since I've known about it which has been almost since it launched.

50% that's a stretch. Useful, yes, 1/2 of interactions, questionable.

Parent didn't say 50% of interactions were integrations, just that the integrations are 50% of the reason people use Slack and I agree. There are other somewhat comparable products that are a lot cheaper, yet don't deliver the same value with regards to integrations.

Re: Slack Platform Launch

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Post by bhuga »

Does anyone know if this comes with an initiative to fill in the gaps in Slack's administrative API so addons can be created around that, too? I'm working with SlimerJS to audit message retention and a few other settings.

Slack has a great core experience and I understand why it's doing so well. But it's weird to see an $80m fund to invest particularly in Slack addons when a lot of existing features don't yet have API support.

Re: Slack Platform Launch

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Post by fideloper »

2 points:

1. Remember when Dropbox was dumb, because rsync? (Bunch of naysayers here citing fee alternatives).

From what I'm seeing, bots and integrations are great and here to stay.

Businesses will gladly pay money in exchange for time and complexity not spent rolling your own.

2. This seems like a boon for us happy slack users!

Re: Slack Platform Launch

#27

Post by sciurus »

anonfunction wrote: post #8

Really like the announcement of botkit[1], I was just looking at adding a vote bot to our slack and only found a really old example that ended up not working. 1. https://github.com/howdyai/botkit/

I hope that the official blessings of botkit doesn't negatively impact other bot frameworks that user the Slack APIs. Lita (https://www.lita.io/) is an excellent way to write Slack bots in Ruby. It supports other chat services and protocols too, so your bots don't lock you in to Slack.

Re: Slack Platform Launch

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Post by notatoad »

studentrob wrote: post #23
tomasien wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Slack makes a ton of money and it is unimaginable to me (and many others) that it's not going to be a massive force. It has been a revelation to literally every entrepreneur I know - and I'm from Virginia not SV (although I recently moved to NYC - same deal). Now that it has established itself beyond almost any doubt, its INVESTORS have established an $80M bet around those who make the company a core component of the…

With free self-hosted open source alternatives like Rocket Chat and Mattermost entering the scene, along with easy internal installation from Sandstorm, does a new business really need Slack?

It does if there's a whole ecosystem of bots and services built on top of slack that don't run on the alternatives.

Re: Slack Platform Launch

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Post by incepted »

chuhnk wrote: post #2

I feel like the world has lost it's mind slightly. When a 2 year old startup launches an $80m fund. I mean I understand they want to be a platform and can see the strength in funding projects that will empower a platform model but still. This is the point at which I think we're really in a boom heading in that bubble direction, and I was never one to fall in to the trap of calling it a bubble before. Love slack, love…

> I feel like the world has lost it's mind slightly. When a 2 year old startup launches an $80m fund.

Slack was founded in 2009 and has raised over $300M (yes, three hundred million dollars) [1]

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/slack#/entity

Re: Slack Platform Launch

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Post by tomasien »

jmspring wrote: post #18
tomasien wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you ever even USED Slack? The apps are amazing, it's 50% of why people use Slack. There have been apps since I've known about it which has been almost since it launched.

50% that's a stretch. Useful, yes, 1/2 of interactions, questionable.

Didn't say 50% of interactions, 50% of why I use it over other methods of chat. Other 50% is UX.
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