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They're referring to an open 3rd Party API platform - not giving away their secret sauce.
by mythz 10y ago
They're referring to an open 3rd Party API platform - not giving away their secret sauce.
- Touche 10y agoCan you explain the difference between an open and a closed 3rd party API?
- yoz-y 10y agoI guess here the split is between a closed source 3rd party API and no API at all.
- daveFNbuck 10y agoTo develop an app using the Slack API, you do not need to register with Slack and download an API key for your app. Anyone can just develop whatever they like without having to ask permission first and there's no easy way to selectively shut down apps that Slack doesn't like.
- RandomOpinion 10y agoSlack is a chat application, one of a vast multitude. There's not all that much secret sauce to give away.
- azinman2 10y agoTheir secret sauce seems to be in how they can convince so many people to use it despite similar products existing for decades. I really wish I knew the answer to this question, I admire it a lot.
- ericclemmons 10y agoThe UX is top notch. Not only is the UI polished, but big details like mentioning someone and an invite link appearing is awesome. Or force-pinging someone on DnD because of an emergency. Slack is seriously user-centric, all the way down to how they run their Twitter.
- flukus 10y agoHave you used it on an under powered laptop? It's dog slow and gets exponentially worse the longer you have it open. Don't even thinking about scrolling back through the history.
- azinman2 10y agoThey didn't start with all that, but somehow amassed a lot of users anyway. I believe it's more about the personal networks of the original team, but that's just a guess.
- kqia040 10y agoWell, what deep secrets could a chatapp possibly have thats unreplicable.
- saurik 10y agoProviding APIs for third-party integration is what Microsoft is almost too good at (hence why Word and Excel are so scarey). The idea that Slack would be so dumb as to believe that Microsoft will do poorly at this is shocking.