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Is this solving some problem that Hipchat, Campfire, Slack, Kandan, Unison, etc. don't already solve?
by Blahah 13y ago
Is this solving some problem that Hipchat, Campfire, Slack, Kandan, Unison, etc. don't already solve?
- bhouston 13y agoAnd asana, flowdock, etc... I guess it is a massive market and thus there is a lot to go around.
- ballard 13y agoWe used to use hipchat (campfire clone) but it was hard to follow lengthy conversations and favorite details for later. Flowdock for our uses is a zillion times better and can integrate with basically anything. Asana is also amazing I wouldn't compete in either of the spaces because it's so competitive and the apps are better than they were 5 years ago. 10x better would require so much cash and time, for the possibility of not capturing enough market to be viable.
- debacle 13y agoThe problem with all of those services is a lack of a strong desktop client that isn't just their web app inside a browser container.
- untog 13y agoBut what is the actual problem there? I've used HipChat before and I'm really not sure why I would care that it's using a web runtime inside the app.
- meritt 13y agoHipchat desktop clients are native now, actually. http://blog.hipchat.com/2013/10/24/hipchat-is-all-native/ http://blog.hipchat.com/2013/10/24/hipchat-is-all-native/
- kolev 13y ago... and just added voice and video today.
- Sir_Cmpwn 13y agoThe problem with all of these things, in my opinion, is that they aren't IRC. Real time chat has been a solved problem since May of 1993.
- enraged_camel 13y agoI've never been able to trust IRC.
- Sir_Cmpwn 13y agoThere's nothing untrustworthy about IRC.
- enraged_camel 13y agoLast time I looked into it, security was not a big emphasis for the IRC protocol in general [1], and setting up your own IRC server and finding high-quality open-source/free clients was more trouble than it is worth. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat#Challenges http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat#Challenges