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Re:Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed? by hrdwdmrbl on Sunday April 07, 2019 @07:50AM (#19596214)
I'll be the contrarian here. I tried wave and was never really thrilled with it. Maybe I would have grown to like it, but I never really saw its place in my workflows. IMHO it didn't do any one thing great. It also didn't really play nice with other applications. It was more of an all-or-nothing experience.

I think if it really was so great others would have copied it and made great clones. Given that that never happened it would seem that others were never motivated enough to build a clone, which tells me that it was never useful enough.

I would be happy to be proven wrong about what a great tool it was, but in the end it seemed like more of a cool tech-demo than anything great.

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Re:Ask HN: Which great products didn't succeed? by TallGuyShort on Sunday April 07, 2019 @11:37AM (#19597435)
I think Slack gets close to some of my favorite bits: the ability to go back and edit messages, spawn threads that go off on a tangent, the way it can link nicely to referenced docs and JIRAs, etc. I have mixed feelings about real-time typing. But it feels like Slack's generation of chat tools have picked up some of the ideas Wave pioneered without being all-or-nothing or not being primarily a chat tools.
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