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> The ideas behind Google Wave are very very old, like Lotus Notes old. The ideas behind Slack are very old. Doesn't stop Slack from being incredibly valuable

> The ideas behind Google Wave are very very old, like Lotus Notes old. The ideas behind Slack are very old. Doesn't stop Slack from being incredibly valuable as both a product and a company. In many ways, Slack is trying to become what Google Wave tried to be at the beginning (a tool for real-time communication with, not just in chat/text form, but with other embedded forms of media as well).

abz10 10y ago
Lotus Notes was very successful. They were acquired for $3.5B in 1995, long before our current bubble economy. It's likely Slack will progress along the same path - except it will be much faster now. If they don't sell out soon enough they will ride it into the ground and a new fad will take over. Remember Yammer? I don't see Slack as being different to the others. They don't have the talent or motivation to fix their core issues (Facebook does). Bots are not a panacea. Anecdotally I've noticed lots of people have already abandoned Slack because it is distracting and doesn't provide enough value. I expect this to continue. Busy people with jobs and lives will be the first to go and it'll be left with the annoying people with nothing better to do, kinda like Twitter. I think Facebook can and will eventually do a better Slack than Slack.