3 ms·
Next >$16B opportunity: bring something close to Slack, but that actually works, to China. China is chat-first culture, but neither DingDing, nor Wechat Work a
by mstaoru 7y ago
Next >$16B opportunity: bring something close to Slack, but that actually works, to China.
China is chat-first culture, but neither DingDing, nor Wechat Work achieved the status that Slack has in the US/EU.
Problems with Slack in China: it's often blocked, it's unbearably slow, the apps are not in the stores, it's Chinese search is lacklustre, it's UI is centered on "longer" messages but Chinese language is very short so it could be optimized somehow.
- biztos 7y agoYou'd probably need it to be very efficient in order to run on some of the cheaper mobile devices, and of course only a Chinese company would ever be allowed to succeed at that scale in China. I could easily imagine a Chinese company coming up with Slack-but-fast-and-easily-monitored, making that >$16B in Asia, and then coming at the US/EU markets with it.
- mstaoru 7y agoIn the age of 8-core Snapdragon 660 phones that cost barely north of a hundred dollars this is not much of a concern. Besides, most "office" types update their phones every major release.