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Fascinating how « Good » apps turn to utter shit when they are touch by VC money. Slack really follows the same pattern as everything that exist in the valley
by asien 8y ago
Fascinating how « Good » apps turn to utter shit when they are touch by VC money.
Slack really follows the same pattern as everything that exist in the valley :
- Create simple software that people love to use
- Raise hundred of millions
- Stop innovating / fixing bugs / adding new features and solely focus on customer acquisition
- Go Public ans Cash Out
- Leave the company and ignore millions of frustrated users
- Repeat
- s3r3nity 8y agoAre the latter points true? I mean, I personally do not like using Slack at work, but I have to admit it has a lot of really smooth UI and Product features that seem polished. I don't think I encounter bugs on a frequent basis at all, and my coworkers don't seem frustrated by using it. But I guess I'm just one point of anecdotal data?
- itslennysfault 8y agoI can second this, and I have a bias against it. When it came out I couldn't wrap my head around why people were excited about it. I've used IRC for like 20+ years and I didn't see it as much of an improvement from IRC. However, I currently use it every day and honestly have no complaints. I still don't know why a chat app is worth so much, but it does what it's supposed to (lets me talk to others in my company in a single place), and basically everything you could think of has an integration for it. I haven't had an even remotely annoying user experience since the early days, and as a "slack hater" I've been actively looking for things to complain about.