Re:Slack Raises $160M Series E at $2.8B Valuation
by enraged_camel on Thursday April 16, 2015 @04:10PM
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>>It's just chat.
No, it is not "just chat." Chat is just one function. Slack basically brings ALL of the information that is relevant to your team in one place. It has out-of-the-box integrations with a TON of services, and all the data they are sending to your team's Slack feed can then be search on, which provides massive productivity advantages.
Re:Slack Raises $160M Series E at $2.8B Valuation
by manigandham on Thursday April 16, 2015 @11:45PM
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So... it's just chat. With some integrations. I already stated this:
> They all offer various abilities above just chat messaging like APIs and integrations to get notified about various other things all in the same place.
Thanks for the confirmation.
Re:Slack Raises $160M Series E at $2.8B Valuation
by enraged_camel on Friday April 17, 2015 @10:42AM
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Just because the integrations present the data to the user in a chat interface does not make it "just chat."
It's OK though. I know you're just being obtuse.
Re:Slack Raises $160M Series E at $2.8B Valuation
by manigandham on Friday April 17, 2015 @01:51PM
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How is that not chat? You didn't have this ability before (although more manual)? What is so utterly amazing about this?
And no it doesn't bring "all the information" together, there's still plenty happening outside of it.
Enjoy using it but we don't need all the abstract hyperbole.
There is a lot of efficiency gained since emails can often be heavy and include lots of extra wording, signatures, greetings, etc. There are plenty of conversations that just move faster through a lightweight chat system.
Lots of companies were using MSN, Skype, Lync, Gmail, IRC, etc to do chat before and now there's finally a better crop of tools like HipChat, FlowDock, Slack and others. They all offer various abilities above just chat messaging like APIs and integrations to get notified about various other things all in the same place.
Is Slack a nice tool? Yes, it's finally a chat system that works for actual business needs.
Is Slack worth this much and better than everyone else? Not sure, the other ones mentioned are pretty good too and there are still lots of missing features with all of them. $2.8B seems very inflated, but then again this is Silicon Valley at work.