Re:Ryver: Why we run negative ads against Slack
by geofft on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @05:20PM
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Team communication must be reliable. An infinite search history is useless if you're going to end your incredible journey in six months.
If you were charging what Slack charges, I wouldn't trust you to win against them. But you're going to undercut them by providing everything Slack does, for free, and aligning your financial incentives with another product? I've been an engineer at a mismanaged startup run by a hotshot CEO before, I know how this works and I know how much attention the zero-revenue product gets.
What your pricing tells me is that a) you have no interest in doing it as well as Slack does, and I'm already less than 100% happy with the quality of Slack's product, and b) you have much less chance of surviving than Slack does.
I suppose I am one of the "Slack fanboys" because of this response I wrote on Twitter https://twitter.com/geofft/status/679466421206687744. (Incidentally, that proves to me that you're lying, because that "so last year" tweet is from 2015, and in this article you're arguing that it's okay for you to say "so last year" because it's currently 2016 and you're talking about 2015. Consider not lying?)
If you were charging what Slack charges, I wouldn't trust you to win against them. But you're going to undercut them by providing everything Slack does, for free, and aligning your financial incentives with another product? I've been an engineer at a mismanaged startup run by a hotshot CEO before, I know how this works and I know how much attention the zero-revenue product gets.
What your pricing tells me is that a) you have no interest in doing it as well as Slack does, and I'm already less than 100% happy with the quality of Slack's product, and b) you have much less chance of surviving than Slack does.
I suppose I am one of the "Slack fanboys" because of this response I wrote on Twitter https://twitter.com/geofft/status/679466421206687744. (Incidentally, that proves to me that you're lying, because that "so last year" tweet is from 2015, and in this article you're arguing that it's okay for you to say "so last year" because it's currently 2016 and you're talking about 2015. Consider not lying?)