> But how to you get that $1b valuation by making yet another client based on open standards? You have to corner the market, and 90% of HN readership want to cr

> But how to you get that $1b valuation by making yet another client based on open standards? You have to corner the market, and 90% of HN readership want to create or work for a new unicorn, not just improve technology for the sake of it. Feel free to make a better Slack, that's more usable, more reliable, with more integrations, and run it on IRC. The implementation details mean little to users. Thinking Slack won because it was a closed standard and not that it's better than IRC for the majority of its users is quite the reach. Your colleague from marketing: - ... how do I get on it? - How do I upload files to a channel? - How do I search for something I wrote a month ago?