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Well deserved. Their product-vision was clear, their execution focused on what mattered... and they didn't need to bend or break laws to succeed. It's easily my favorite unicorn of the past decade.
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Using lots of browser tabs instead of applications appears to me to be a step backward in usability. Instead of relying on the window manager to organise your work, you add cognitive load instead.
Eh, you can just put Slack into it's own window if you're going to use multiple tabs for it. Personally, I just pin it next to my email and it works fine. I'm not a fan of how much RAM or CPU it uses. I tried the desktop app hoping it would be better, but it seems like it's perhaps worse (I use Firefox, so
Well deserved. Their product-vision was clear, their execution focused on what mattered... and they didn't need to bend or break laws to succeed. It's easily my favorite unicorn of the past decade.
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I don't know about "well deserved". They did it by holding people's data hostage. It's one thing to make your messages unsearchable or otherwise available in the UI until your pay, but holding your data completely hostage until you pay up isn't exactly a noble way to go about things. Even Facebook isn't this obnoxious about getting you a copy of your message history.
Nah, this is a super slanted view of things. Their business succeeds because they've made a best in class amazing thing, not because everyone begrudgingly wants to see their history, lol
Next >$16B opportunity: bring something close to Slack, but that actually works, to China. China is chat-first culture, but neither DingDing, nor Wechat Work achieved the status that Slack has in the US/EU. Problems with Slack in China: it's often blocked, it's unbearably slow, the apps are not in the stores, it's Chinese search is lacklustre, it's UI is centered on "longer" messages but Chinese language is very shor…
You'd probably need it to be very efficient in order to run on some of the cheaper mobile devices, and of course only a Chinese company would ever be allowed to succeed at that scale in China. I could easily imagine a Chinese company coming up with Slack-but-fast-and-easily-monitored, making that >$16B in Asia, and then coming at the US/EU markets with it.
The fb foray into a phone market with that device was an utter disaster and a joke.
The fb phone basically introduced one “feature” ‘the circle profile pic’ and the physical phone was chintsy and lame....
Go back in time to the danger device. The hiptop was cool, and all, but even then there was a miss. Regardless of the fact that danger became android... there was still a miss.
We beed a messaging only platform device.
This need has not been solved.
If a slack-first device existed where i have topical channels for things and branch channels, but i can dm and pm and mm people.... thats the device i want.
Just give me a slack-first os on a device and ill be ok.
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Nah, this is a super slanted view of things. Their business succeeds because they've made a best in class amazing thing, not because everyone begrudgingly wants to see their history, lol
Slack is still inferior to IRC overall. Don't know what you're talking about.
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Slack is one of the most bloated apps on my computer, and my smartphone. On both, it takes seconds to boot, and that's just to load the local cache. Syncing with the main server takes a few more seconds. It has some good UI patterns. But overall, it's heavy and slow. It takes longer to load than the previous chat clients I used.
It is a large and complex piece of software that enables great productivity gains if used correctly. I think a few second startup time is a small price to pay for that.