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OpenAI should build Slack

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Re: OpenAI should build Slack

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Post by cj »

pwarner wrote: post #4

> Microsoft did, and Teams is by all reports a solid success. Not sure if the author has used Teams. But otherwise, I agree we need an actual good, adorable Slack clone. I thought Google might do this after not buying Slack, but I'm not hearing anything about their solution.

> I thought Google might do this after not buying Slack

They did: Google Chat. It’s bundled with Google Workspace.

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Post by udfalkso »

MagicMoonlight wrote: post #17
pwarner wrote: post #4

> Microsoft did, and Teams is by all reports a solid success. Not sure if the author has used Teams. But otherwise, I agree we need an actual good, adorable Slack clone. I thought Google might do this after not buying Slack, but I'm not hearing anything about their solution.

What issues do you have with teams? It works well and there’s nothing I can think of that I want in it. It’s just a video and chat app.

Teams suffers from one giant problem. There is a totally odd, but understandable from tech debt perspective, segregation between “chats” and “teams” which makes it practically impossible to find everything. It’s a fatal flaw. Slack is beautifully simple and effective in comparison. Also, the reminder feature on slack is extremely useful to me personally and I miss it dearly in teams.

Re: OpenAI should build Slack

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Post by Hamuko »

spprashant wrote: post #11

My personal experience with using Slack as just a in-company chat app has been fine. I enjoy using Slack more than Teams or Discord. All their integrations kinda suck though, and its not uncommon for integrations to randomly break with no discernible changes elsewhere.

I hate how Slack has no syntax highlighting for code blocks. Even Discord has it.

Re: OpenAI should build Slack

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

We use Slack at work, and everyone we work with uses Slack, and we all work together with Slack Connect. I suspect if we moved to a competitor that’s pretty much the main impact we’d see, and it wouldn’t be good unless everyone else work with moved too. I think that network effect is probably the only meaningful differentiation in that space.
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