Slack’s Shares Plunge After It Predicts a Larger Loss • Hacker News Board

Re: Slack’s Shares Plunge After It Predicts a Larger Loss

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Post by mav3rick » Fri, Sep 06, 2019, 6:48 PM UTC

repolfx wrote: post #210

mav3rick wrote: post #200

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Everything seems easy behind a computer..

No, he's right. Uber loses billions because they subsidise rides. That's easy. Anyone can sell a dollar for 80 cents.

Please do that and get investors to fund you for a long period of time.

Re: Slack’s Shares Plunge After It Predicts a Larger Loss

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Post by dreamcompiler » Fri, Sep 06, 2019, 7:29 PM UTC

galago wrote: post #53

w8rbt wrote: post #39

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Slack is nothing at all like email. It's proprietary, non-federated and has built-in data discovery/spying mechanisms to record every click/keystroke made by users.

It is basically a chat program though right? It has some newer features, but they seem just like incremental improvements over proprietary chat applications I've been using for the last 25 years.

Yes. It's basically a chat program with lousy search features. Oh and it has a "native" Electron app, which just means the user experience is better in a browser.

Re: Slack’s Shares Plunge After It Predicts a Larger Loss

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Post by repolfx » Mon, Sep 09, 2019, 9:55 AM UTC

mav3rick wrote: post #221

repolfx wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, he's right. Uber loses billions because they subsidise rides. That's easy. Anyone can sell a dollar for 80 cents.

Please do that and get investors to fund you for a long period of time.

Honestly it's sometimes been tempting when you look at things like Uber. How long have they been around now? No signs of investors pulling the plug yet. How long is a long time?

Re: Slack’s Shares Plunge After It Predicts a Larger Loss

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Post by elhudy » Wed, Sep 11, 2019, 3:42 AM UTC

paxys wrote: post #176

elhudy wrote: post #40

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Would you be able to expand on this perspective? Is there an example of a highly profitable SaaS company which offers a super simple subscription solution and doesn't rely on data-collection based advertising?

Office 365, Salesforce, Ultimate Software, Adobe Creative Suite, GSuite, ADP, Box, DocuSign, Shopify, HubSpot, Zoom.

Does slack really fall into the same categories as any of these though?

>Office 365, Salesforce, Adobe Creative Suite, ADP

I'm not a coder but these applications seems vastly more complex than slack - and thus I would be willing to pay more for them.

>DocuSign

This seems closer to being along the same lines as slack, but I feel like docusign doesnt sell it's "software" per say but rather implementations and operational change consultation.

>Shopify, HubSpot, Zoom. Not sure what these are

Sorry for the late response