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I personally can do UI of Slack client in 5-8 months (so 5-8 man/months) + one/two backend developers needed. And it will be almost native client with client di
by c-smile 9y ago
I personally can do UI of Slack client in 5-8 months (so 5-8 man/months) + one/two backend developers needed. And it will be almost native client with client distribution less than 5mb.
As a proof, it took me 2 months to make this application: https://notes.sciter.com/ https://notes.sciter.com/ (and site for it in that time too).
- askafriend 9y agoThat's the easy part. The hard part is scaling, marketing, and building a business/platform around the product so that you take it worldwide. Several people have built Slack clones and there's even multiple open source projects out there. Building a company and business at a scale like Slack is the incredibly difficult part and nobody has managed to replicate that.
- c-smile 9y agoThat's true. My personal educated estimation is that only 5-10% of income is spent on R&D in established companies.
- ctraganos 9y agoI'd pay for an alternative "lite" Slack client for basic channels, DMs, and attachments. With 10+ accounts, my 2017 mac struggles under the weight of the Electron mac client