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Aside from it's zealous following that the others never enjoyed, Slack is also becoming a true platform. None of the other services had so many companies buildi

Aside from it's zealous following that the others never enjoyed, Slack is also becoming a true platform. None of the other services had so many companies building integrations on top of them.

ceejayoz 11y ago
It helps that Slack is spending $40M (plus another $40M from their investors) to encourage that. http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/254078 http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/254078
ihuman 11y ago
> None of the other services had so many companies building integrations on top of them I disagree. While there is no centralized list of IRC bots (because IRC isn't centralized), there is an uncountable number of IRC bots and libraries for people to make their own.
- Mandatum 11y ago
  "companies", not services. Aside from tech companies, IRC was never adopted by wider industries. We've been using it amongst a primarily operations-based company which relied on Email and Lync previously.
moultano 11y ago
I've already seen groups moving on from slack to other services.
jinushaun 11y ago
But WHY did so many people decide to build Slack integration? It's not like HipChat and Campfire didn't have APIs. I say follow the money. My theory is that Slack has influential investors who were extremely successful in selling hype.