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Re:Why Messaging Startup Slack Keeps Raising Money It Doesn’... by gkoberger on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @07:58PM (#11301638)
Aside from it's zealous following that the others never enjoyed, Slack is also becoming a true platform. None of the other services had so many companies building integrations on top of them.
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Re:Why Messaging Startup Slack Keeps Raising Money It Doesn’... by ihuman on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @08:37PM (#11301828)
> None of the other services had so many companies building integrations on top of them

I disagree. While there is no centralized list of IRC bots (because IRC isn't centralized), there is an uncountable number of IRC bots and libraries for people to make their own.

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Re:Why Messaging Startup Slack Keeps Raising Money It Doesn’... by Mandatum on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @11:31PM (#11302408)
"companies", not services. Aside from tech companies, IRC was never adopted by wider industries. We've been using it amongst a primarily operations-based company which relied on Email and Lync previously.
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Re:Why Messaging Startup Slack Keeps Raising Money It Doesn’... by ceejayoz on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @08:03PM (#11301668)
It helps that Slack is spending $40M (plus another $40M from their investors) to encourage that.

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/254078

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Re:Why Messaging Startup Slack Keeps Raising Money It Doesn’... by jinushaun on Thursday March 17, 2016 @12:40AM (#11302617)
But WHY did so many people decide to build Slack integration? It's not like HipChat and Campfire didn't have APIs. I say follow the money. My theory is that Slack has influential investors who were extremely successful in selling hype.
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Re:Why Messaging Startup Slack Keeps Raising Money It Doesn’... by moultano on Wednesday March 16, 2016 @09:03PM (#11301927)
I've already seen groups moving on from slack to other services.
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