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Ask HN: How did slack beat hipchat?

I was never a hipchat user, but I'm intrigued by how slack beat them (and others) when they had a headstart of several years. Did slack address a pain point that hipchat didn't, or was it just a case of better marketing?

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Re:Show HN: NameQL – Find a name in milliseconds on Monday November 06, 2017 @12:56PM (#15637260)
Nicely done! There are other tools that do the same thing but the usability is far better in this one.
Re:Ask HN: Where can I download a sample mailbox archive? on Monday November 06, 2017 @01:48AM (#15633802)
This is perfect. Thank you!