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I'm staggered that there are 575 companies paying slack $100k / year. I don't even have anything against slack but what is possibly worth $100k a year from a c
by LandR 8y ago
I'm staggered that there are 575 companies paying slack $100k / year.
I don't even have anything against slack but what is possibly worth $100k a year from a comms software?
- ralala 8y agoAvailability
- derwiki 8y agoSlack does a lot of things very well, but I've seen a surprising amount of downtime. YMMV of course.
- theevilsharpie 8y agoIt's been pretty reliable for me, particularly compared to the previous messaging service my company used (HipChat).
- jsty 8y agoAnything that saves a single engineer-year of effort, or less than half an engineer-year in a high COL area. Which for quite a lot of large companies, would cover their internal comms stack. It probably vanishes in comparison to, say, what they pay Cisco for their phones.
- sidcool 8y agoBig companies with thousands of employees license Slack with advanced features, mostly per user basis. So the payment is in direct proportion to number of people using it. $100k/year is nothing for any big organization.
- LeonM 8y agoIf you run a company with 1000 employees, that just $100 per seat, that's not that bad. Telephony is usually quite a lot more expensive than that.
- mritchie712 8y agoAnd you can make phone calls in Slack. The call quality and experience is pretty solid too.
- jzymbaluk 8y agoBetter than Skype for Business in my experience. It can even do video calls and screen sharing with the pro version
- soared 8y agoMy company pays quite a bit for slack and an alerts integration. My company spends ~$500k/day in client’s money and so real-time alerts in slack easily pay for themselves.
- mritchie712 8y agoWhat do you use for alerts? We've been working on Slack as a destination for SeekWell (https://seekwell.io/ https://seekwell.io/). Basically you can write SQL and if there are results, we'll send a message to Slack. Same works for Python, including plots / images.
- soared 8y agoAll of our alerts I believe come directly the specific platforms or one-off integration companies (where we buy ads, so facebook/google ads/few others). SeekWell would work for us if we had a competent product team to build a data warehouse that actually worked. Some of ours operate like: 1. Supermetrics pulls data into a google sheet once an hour 2. Alert logic in the spreadsheet 3. Some slack integration (zapier maybe) sends slack alerts based on cell values Currently looking at eletype to replace a lot of our custom stuff https://www.eletype.com/install/ https://www.eletype.com/install/
- nedwin 8y agoYou would be amazed at the types of software large companies pay for >$100k a year to solve narrow business problems.
- fjp 8y agoYep - and "how our engineers communicate" is far from a narrow business problem
- pwinnski 8y agoUntil recently I worked for a company with more than 100k employees, and Slack was much preferred over the previous Microsoft-supplied chat service. I have no insider knowledge at all, but I wouldn't be surprised if that company paid that much.
- Saturdays 8y agoTo be clear the filing says >$100K, I'm sure some are spending way way more, it beats the cost of hiring an engineering team to do all this (build, improve, maintain etc...)
- rockostrich 8y agoSlack's "plus" pricing is $15/user/month if billed monthly. That's $180/year per employee which is nothing compared to a salary.
- paxys 8y agoYou can solve the problem of internal communication for your entire company at less than the cost of hiring a single engineer. I'm surprised there aren't more companies on this list.