Ask HN: Will Google Ever Launch a Successful New Product Again?

Re:Ask HN: Will Google Ever Launch a Successful New Product ... by dangus on Friday November 18, 2022 @03:05PM (#33661247)

Meet and Drive are big successes in the enterprise space. Google successfully made Workspaces a compelling alternative to Microsoft’s business productivity suite.

I think with that in mind, the fact that Google doesn’t develop their own Slack clone to fit into Workspaces is completely bananas [edit: they actually did do that this year].

Other new product successes listed in this thread are things like Chromecast that only make Google money indirectly and/or represent an essentially meaningless slice of their revenue.

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Re:Ask HN: Will Google Ever Launch a Successful New Product ... by MivLives on Friday November 18, 2022 @03:10PM (#33661319)

They have one it's called spaces. we have it set up as a back up to slack. It's not that spaces (shutdown 2016ish), it's a subfeature of google chat.

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Re:Ask HN: Will Google Ever Launch a Successful New Product ... by dangus on Friday November 18, 2022 @03:24PM (#33661508)

Oh interesting, I never explored in there. Indeed it looks like a Slack clone. Seems to have support for interactive apps similar to Slack as well.

Of course, it still took Google all the way until this year to roll it out.

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Re:Ask HN: Will Google Ever Launch a Successful New Product ... by MivLives on Friday November 18, 2022 @05:55PM (#33663897)

I'm curious if my company will ever fully ditch slack. Meet got good enough that we sorta ditched Zoom. And they keep adjusting our slack tier.

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