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Re:Slack Bot Business Tutorial: From zero to $25k per month by Tehchops on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @02:39PM (#17349218)
>We've seen plenty of people going all in building their business on a platform they don't control, then getting mad when the platform they depend on changes how things work.

I've always wondered about this. When you depend on another, already-monetized platform to build on, your livelihood depends on a variety of factors not in your control.

What if they decide to make your functionality part of their core product? Charge for API access? Limit/remove API access?

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Re:Slack Bot Business Tutorial: From zero to $25k per month by alexxtomsk on Tuesday June 19, 2018 @09:56PM (#17351892)
You always depend on something: traffic acquisition channels, competition, market size, etc.

Choosing Slack doesn't mean it's the only platform you're developing for. You can expand the same value proposition to other platforms with the same business users (I can't say the same regarding other b2c chatbots/platforms, though).

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