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Don't forget Slack and HipChat.

• spookthesunset 7y ago
  Oh but surely Slack could never scale to the needs of Uber. Much better to build the chat app in-house. You know, for reasons... /s
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• fstuff 7y ago
  Lol, people keep taking about Uber building internal products because 3rd party stuff can't "Uber" scale, I think the real drive to build internal apps is to save on licensing costs. Take chat, hipcat is like 5-10 bucks per month per user. Uber has about 20k FTEs, 40k contractors all use chat. That's 3 to 600k per month just on chat. Don't forget scale is expensive. I can't imagine how much that many slack licenses would cost.
  • sjg007 7y ago
    I mean, they’d probably get a good discount.
  • discodave 7y ago
    Yeah but you dont need all those engineers if you're not re inventing every wheel.