Future of Slack?

Sep 6, 2019 49 Comments

How does the company stay afloat if Microsoft can give Teams away for free (even if Teams isn’t quite as polished, functionally it has parity wirh Slack and the video conferencing capabilities are even better).

Any Slack folks have some sense of what’s going on over there?

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  • Amazon / Eng
    AMZNBucks

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    AMZNBucks
    Slack needs to lower costs so devs don't have to use the piece of crap that is teams
    Sep 6, 2019 4
  • Stripe
    BlLL GATES

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    BlLL GATES
    Microsoft software is nothing but derivative garbage. It must be insanely boring to work at a company that innovates literally never.
    Sep 6, 2019 6
    • Stripe
      BlLL GATES

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      BlLL GATES
      And yet MS still copied Slack. People shit on slack, but at the end of the day, companies keep buying it because employees love it.

      Office is great, but it’s 20 years old at this point. The only real winner in Office today is Excel, there a better tools for everything else. Windows is not great or innovative and never was. It was cheap and it was everywhere, that doesn’t make it good.
      Sep 7, 2019
    • They're not buying it in nearly the numbers investors want. That's why it's been a shit IPO so far and only going to get worse as others start having feature parity.
      Sep 7, 2019
  • Uber
    Cap paper

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    Cap paper
    A company that lets you send messages and party parrots IPO’d at 25 BILLION DOLLARS.

    A company that’s not needed and no lives/productivity will be changed if the said company ceased to exist tomorrow.

    It’s so weird people can’t see that this tech bubble will cause the next massive recession.

    25 billion
    Sep 6, 2019 2
  • Some companies don't buy Microsoft products
    Sep 6, 2019 6
  • Teams is not free, it’s bundled in with O365. Slack costs more per head than GSuite or E1, which is probably not going to be sustainable
    Sep 6, 2019 0