ton of tools do similar things :-) ------------ at the end of the day, this type of software always revolves around "I type stuff into a textbox, it shows up

ton of tools do similar things :-) ------------ at the end of the day, this type of software always revolves around "I type stuff into a textbox, it shows up on someone's screen" nothing too crazy innovative everything out there right now just felt bloated as hell, and not cleanly designed around the concept of real-time, threaded conversations you can create them in most tools, but you can also mow the lawn with a pair of scissors :) you usually wind up with 2-3 channels that turn into huge spamfests, with a horrible signal-to-noise ratio, constantly begging for your attention (at the cost of interrupting whatever you're working on) so I just got rid of all the crap that doesn't matter, polished what was leftover, and hopefully fixed a few nasty process issues along the way :) --------- an employee making $750/mo costs a little over four bucks an hour I'd be willing to pay a high schooler half the minimum wage to make the aforementioned problems go away