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> Maybe the competition caught up and it doesn't stick out as that special anymore. Exactly. Slack's biggest benefit was "chat with persistent history, the abi
by JoshTriplett 7y ago
> Maybe the competition caught up and it doesn't stick out as that special anymore.
Exactly. Slack's biggest benefit was "chat with persistent history, the ability to message offline people, and notifications". That's table stakes now.
- culopatin 7y agoIt’s crazy to think that MSN has this back in 2007, but Microsoft instead gave Skype to companies. Such a step back
- addicted 7y agoSlack brought old technologies to light at the right time. And they had emojis.
- enraged_camel 7y agoIMO the main reason Slack became successful is the massive number of pre-built integrations that were (and still are) available even on the free tier. It meant that you could use it as a message/log/notification aggregator for the various pieces of software you were already using. Furthermore, those messages/logs/notifications immediately became searchable so you could for example do a search for <customer name> and have ALL the stuff related to that customer show up in the results (with links to the source applications).