We were surprised to see our account go from paid to free this morning. Hipchat has been a great tool for our startup. We had initial pushback that IRC implemen

We were surprised to see our account go from paid to free this morning. Hipchat has been a great tool for our startup. We had initial pushback that IRC implementations could cover us and be free and better. Hipchat was extremely easy and multiplatform. It just worked. (except animated gifs sometimes) Even our strongest holdout for IRC has at least stopped talking about IRC. The company has been iterating on their new mac os x client with releases every week or two since it launched. I'm still impressed with this company's quality and am psyched that we now have one less bill to pay.