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That's not what happened. HipChat was god awful. It was half assed in almost every way (especially the mobile app). Atlassian simply didn't see the opportunity
by askafriend 7y ago
That's not what happened.
HipChat was god awful. It was half assed in almost every way (especially the mobile app). Atlassian simply didn't see the opportunity.
Slack was leagues better. It was as simple as that.
- baddox 7y agoPerhaps. At the time I certainly heard through the grapevine of several companies switching because of this TOS change: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/archives/hipchats-terms-service-changing https://www.atlassian.com/blog/archives/hipchats-terms-servi...
- tiew9Vii 7y ago> Atlassian simply didn't see the opportunity Na, they did. They put everything in to Hip Chat, even attempted a re-write which led to Stride, it's replacement. Check the logos on the bottom https://www.pubnub.com/what-we-do/ https://www.pubnub.com/what-we-do/. The core part of any chat client is? messaging. Outsourcing your core layer, hmm... Something must of gone drastically wrong somewhere from having it as the #1 business priority and beating Slack to instead selling their customers to Slack.
- askafriend 7y agoThat's not true. They absolutely did not. Not soon enough. Slack launched in August 2013. Stride was release in September 2017. But then it was way, way too late. 4 years is an eternity. Even Microsoft Teams had come out before Stride (in early 2017). Slack would go public less than 2 years after Hipchat/Teams launched with $400mm in revenue (FY2019). To give you a sense of Slack's scale and some perspective, the same year Slack went public - Atlassian did $1.2B in revenue.