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All this discussion about what the future is in the messaging space... The future is disarray, just like the present and just like the past. IM isn't a partic

by Steeeve 10y ago

All this discussion about what the future is in the messaging space... The future is disarray, just like the present and just like the past. IM isn't a particularly difficult problem to solve, even at scale. (and certainly not at startup scale) It's not a good advertising medium, and nobody will ever spend significant money in that space. It's an add-on feel good service.

yeukhon 10y ago
IM isn't easy to solve, but it really is. All you need are * commitment * nice UI * nice add-on services Putting Skype's privacy and issues aside, it has proven to be a very successful IM product for the past decade. Slack, HipChat are more geared toward developers / tech workers. IRC is probably one of the oldest and still widely used because of its simplicity (once you know how to use it, it's easy to use) If you merge all of them together, and have a real product team to support the product forward, it won't be hard. Of course, if your goal is to integrate with 20 other services, yeah, you will run out lucky hitting someone's walled garden.