Re:Slack Platform Launch
by astrostl on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @10:30AM
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"proprietary centralized system that can block or cut them off for any reason"
Chat and ChatOps aren't going anywhere, and Slack already has a gaggle of nascent competitors, both commercial and OSS.
If you build on Facebook or Twitter and they tell you to pound sand, it's game over. If Slack does the same, you can add support for everyone else - if you haven't already.
You aren't building a "Slack app," you're building a chat app which happens to support the Slack API. Huge difference.
Chat and ChatOps aren't going anywhere, and Slack already has a gaggle of nascent competitors, both commercial and OSS.
If you build on Facebook or Twitter and they tell you to pound sand, it's game over. If Slack does the same, you can add support for everyone else - if you haven't already.
You aren't building a "Slack app," you're building a chat app which happens to support the Slack API. Huge difference.