Ask HN: How can Slack be disrupted?

40 points

10 years ago

I read many articles about "Company X taking on Slack", but they fail to point out exactly how the company plans to disrupt Slack.

http://fortune.com/2015/09/23/microsoft-slack-killer/

https://www.techinasia.com/wechat-slack-work-office-chat http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/22/domo-takes-on-slack-with-130m-at-2-billion-valuation/

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/google-to-take-on-slack-and-facebook-with-new-ai-powered-chat-says-report/

http://www.slashgear.com/quip-adds-chat-rooms-to-take-on-slack-21380086/

http://thenextweb.com/apps/2015/01/27/hipchat-looks-take-slack-new-app-private-networks/

We use Slack all day, it is deeply embedded in our productivity and workflows, it just works. What exactly would convince us to give up something that works?

Emulating Slack is not enough, how do you think Slack can truly be disrupted?

73 comments