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> I've used Slack forever. Before that was IRC, Campfire, then Github Chat That's what the founder makes it sound like in every interview I've heard, but the t
by AlchemistCamp 6y ago
> I've used Slack forever. Before that was IRC, Campfire, then Github Chat
That's what the founder makes it sound like in every interview I've heard, but the thing before (and overlapping with) Slack was Atlassian's HipChat. Slack was basically a feature for feature clone of HipChat for the first two years I used it.
- distances 6y agoAnd before HipChat there was (and still is) Flowdock [0]. I think they have the best threading model I've still seen on chat apps, so it was very weird seeing Slack get threading so wrong when there were much better examples to copy from. I suppose Slack won that popularity race as they had a free tier; AFAIK Flowdock was always only available for a paid subscription. Slack definitely was for a long time the worse product. Though at some point much later Slack's larger dev budget finally tipped the scales in their favor I think. [0] http://blog.flowdock.com/2009/07/05/announcing-flowdock-real-time-collaboration-for-teams/ http://blog.flowdock.com/2009/07/05/announcing-flowdock-real...