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Slack acquired their biggest competitor ๐Ÿ‘€

Yesterday, Slack swallowed their biggest competitor: HipChat.

Instead of attempting to compete with Slack, an estimated $5B behemoth in the office communication space, parent company Atlassian agreed to:
  • discontinue HipChat and Stride, their inter-company messaging tools, and sell all related intellectual property to Slack.
  • help all HipChat users transition over to Slack.
  • invest a "small but symbolically important" in Slack.
Slack, in return, will more deeply integrate Atlassian's other products, like task-management tool Trello and bug-tracker JIRA.

Even if you've never tried Slack (or spend all day in it), we've compiled a list of the community's favorite Slack Bots, or apps that live inside Slack, just for you:

๐ŸŽจ Make your Slack pretty with custom, with Slack Themes
๐Ÿ’Œ Crush your inbox directly inside Slack, with Astrobot for Slack
๐Ÿ˜‚ Turn your teammates into Slack stickers, with My Slack Emoji
๐Ÿ” Search for the best custom Slack emoji, with Slackmoji
๐Ÿ’ช Get in shape with this robot personal trainer, with Slackbot Workout

Check out the full list of Slack Bot Fun. ๐Ÿค–
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The community responded with these:

๐Ÿ–ฅย Magnetย &ย BetterSnapTool: Use keyboard shortcuts to move/resize windows around the screen.ย Both of these are amazing

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๐ŸŽฉย Alfred: Will make you never use your mouse again.
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