http://qz.com/825617/slack-vs-microsoft-teams-slack-took-out-a-full-page-ad-in-the-new-york-times-to-welcome-its-new-competitor/ I would be encouraged by this if I were Microsoft.
Ummmmm
Yes they couldn't even support Uber at a relatively small size. No data retention functionality. How can they possibly win lucrative enterprise contracts. Growth slowing for them.
Never used slack, what do you mean by no data retention? Is there not a chat history for the conversations?
There was no way for a company to retain chat history for compliance reasons. They didn't build with large enterprise companies in mind.
Slack has 4m users and 1.2m paying users. This is a really small number.
Wow that is super low
Right, I don't understand why it's so hyped.
is it? I think people conflate numbers between everyday apps (fb/rate/Snapchat) with those that are used by a business. the latter will never approach the former
Slack had rapid growth which is what got them their high valuation. The challenge is they don't have anything that's hard to replicate, and the enterprise market has super high barriers to entry. Their main first-mover advantage is the pile of integrations they have, but there aren't significant network effects for them since they're all about internal communication. I think that's one opportunity they've missed - to build cross-team value that created a network effect. That becomes something hard to replicate. While MS isn't positioning this as a small business or consumer play, and Slack will continue to do well there, the problem for Slack is likely that their main monetization path was enterprise. I suspect what happens next is Slack sells to an MS competitor like Google, who has at least some enterprise inroads and would use it to spruce up their paid Google Apps offerings.
on every machine and every browser so far, slack leaks like a &#'-+ and gets the browser to a crawl after keeping it running for a week or so. I think it's a shit-tier webapp and would be happy to see it die.
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