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Sales and marketing. Also, the cost of Slack is insignificant to most companies and most others start by using the free tier, so the price isn't even a consider
by mritchie712 6y ago
Sales and marketing. Also, the cost of Slack is insignificant to most companies and most others start by using the free tier, so the price isn't even a consideration.
The open source selling point is also irrelevant to most people outside of HN.
- J_tt 6y agoStress on most in that, I found out about the name change due to actively rolling it out to replace slack. Charging that sort of price for just chat felt wrong, so we transitioned to keep message history.