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That'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 ha
by askafriend 9y ago
That'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.