Slack Bot Business Tutorial: From zero to $25k per month

Re:Slack Bot Business Tutorial: From zero to $25k per month by bmelton on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @10:19AM (#17346878)

I think it depends on what you consider a worthy market -- My daughter, 16, doesn't know a single friend who doesn't have a Discord account. Moreover, the 'group chat' in subreddits is, more often than not, powered by Discord.

Of course, those users are probably using it for its free service, and aren't a terribly attractive market on their own, but if they're at all representative, there are a lot of people using Discord, so maybe a low-effort MVP to prove out the market might be worthwhile.

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Re:Slack Bot Business Tutorial: From zero to $25k per month by alexxtomsk on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @10:24AM (#17346923)

I think the problem (or should I say "the difference") with Discord is that they don't position it for business communications. However, the product is fully capable of doing that.

So there are some teams using Discord for business communications, but it's not the default use-case. You can prove that by looking at Discord bots on the market and feature requests at https://feedback.discordapp.com

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Re:Slack Bot Business Tutorial: From zero to $25k per month by eksemplar on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @01:09AM (#17352733)

They would have privacy concerns if they did. We’d never use facebook for business for instance, the same is true for Discord.

Maybe it’s different for American companies but in they EU you’d be hard pressed to sell something that monetizes privacy data.

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Re:Slack Bot Business Tutorial: From zero to $25k per month by alexxtomsk on Wednesday June 20, 2018 @01:18AM (#17352772)

Agreed.

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