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Why do you want to disrupt Slack? Slack is a great product, and it's not winning based on features and functionality alone, they have a great business team as
by justin_vanw 11y ago
Why do you want to disrupt Slack? Slack is a great product, and it's not winning based on features and functionality alone, they have a great business team as well.
Don't try to compete with a well run team at the peak of their abilities. Go find an underserved market that has tons of money and incompetent incumbents providing services. Slack is successful because this is what they did, but that has sucked a lot of the upside out of the market.
- bossx 11y agoI don't want to disrupt Slack, I posed the question to the community to start an intelligent debate around how they might be disrupted in the future. I disagree that you can't compete with a well run team at the peak of their abilities, this is a free market, you can compete with whoever you like. Slack is successful because they solved an internal pain point, read about their history http://www.techvibes.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-slack-2015-09-25 http://www.techvibes.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-slack-2015-...
- justin_vanw 11y agoOf course you can compete against a well run team, but why would you ever want to do that when you can instead compete against a crappy team that is in the toilet, steal all their customers, and so on?