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A friend shared the thought that Slack is a little bit of a scary company to invest in because it was very easy to adopt. "We had no trouble importing our hist
by mherdeg 12y ago
A friend shared the thought that Slack is a little bit of a scary company to invest in because it was very easy to adopt.
"We had no trouble importing our historical message archive and just moving over to this new chat system very quickly. I worry about the long-term stability of this company because if something better comes along, it will be equally fast to switch and never go back," he said.
I wonder about this. Will people move to the new, better thing and ditch their existing product? Is that an existential threat to Slack?
I do know that the product IS pretty great and "team chat with searchable archives" has been tough to get right for a long time. (Internal IRC servers, IRCCloud, Campfire, Hipchat). But being technically excellent and fun to use is no guarantee of success (soft spot in my heart for Zephyr and platforms like Zulip).
- temuze 12y agoI agree. Slack needs to hustle right now and increase the barrier to entry. Not sure how - integrations help. Maybe asynchronous communication as well?
- 31reasons 12y agoSome kind of machine learning based answering system that look like Stack Overflow but answers come from analyzing chats!
- steamy 12y agoI wonder about this. Will people move to the new, better thing and ditch their existing product? Is that an existential threat to Slack? Slack gotta make switching costs in terms of inconvenience at least bit high for them to jump ship otherwise they'd face a very unpleasant outcome should a new hot player/product hits the market
- pbreit 12y agoThat's about as short-sighted as it gets.