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Atlassian Acquires StatusPage

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Re: Atlassian Acquires StatusPage

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Post by SandersAK »

balls187 wrote: post #13
rubiquity wrote: post #7

Seems like the perfect acquisition for handling HipChat's downtime.

Ouch. I know snark is generally frowned upon, but HipChat and hosted JIRA/Confluence downtimes have been serious issues for us.

Yeah i mean, this is basically why we switch to Slack. Right as we were deciding if we should start investing more money and time into Hipchat.

Re: Atlassian Acquires StatusPage

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Post by spraak »

itomato wrote: post #28
spraak wrote: post #21

Off topic - What are some alternatives to JIRA?

Which subset of functionality do you need? Issue tracking? Kanban? A means to align corporate initiatives with dev effort? Defect tracking with built-in links to commits and vice-versa?

Oh right, thanks for asking. Issue tracking and Kanban mostly

Re: Atlassian Acquires StatusPage

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Post by mmanfrin »

spraak wrote: post #21

Off topic - What are some alternatives to JIRA?

There are, no exaggeration, probably thousands of alternatives. People are very subjective in what they want out of a task tracker, so I'd start by making a list of what you think you need and in what format, then go from there.

Re: Atlassian Acquires StatusPage

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Post by vthallam »

jroseattle wrote: post #22

"Adding a service like StatusPage, which launched three years ago, seems like a natural fit for Atlassian." Why is this a natural fit for Atlassian? Not being snarky, I just don't see how this is any more a natural fit for Atlassian than lots of other companies that provide picks-and-shovels to the software builders of the world.

May be because there is plenty of opportunity for upselling StatusPage to the existing and new customers of Atlassian?

Re: Atlassian Acquires StatusPage

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Post by rmdoss »

As a happy StatusPage user, I am worried about this acquisition. Been more and more frustrated with Atlassian and recently we had to move away from HipChat due to multiple issues (constant downtimes).

What are the good alternatives to StatusPage?

Re: Atlassian Acquires StatusPage

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Post by snuxoll »

spraak wrote: post #33
itomato wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which subset of functionality do you need? Issue tracking? Kanban? A means to align corporate initiatives with dev effort? Defect tracking with built-in links to commits and vice-versa?

Oh right, thanks for asking. Issue tracking and Kanban mostly

JetBrains YouTrack would be my suggestion.

Re: Atlassian Acquires StatusPage

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Post by [deleted] »

rmdoss wrote: post #37

As a happy StatusPage user, I am worried about this acquisition. Been more and more frustrated with Atlassian and recently we had to move away from HipChat due to multiple issues (constant downtimes). What are the good alternatives to StatusPage?

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Re: Atlassian Acquires StatusPage

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Post by mehdim »

I really love the execution. Neat, slick and they even had the luxury to be open about it in their blog. They attacked a simple-to-understand but real problem, on a niche, making something people wanted to have and not wanted to do. They built the right integrations...making money since the beginning, increasing revenue per user and overall revenue... They probably made lots of mistakes , but according to public information and taking the time to analyze it with some prospective, they did (almost) everything right. Following their traction and revenue, they must have sold for a good price as Atlassian really needs such products to renew their platform and they have the portfolio of customers Statuspage would have tried to acquire. Great story.
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