Flock - Real-time team messenger tool

@bhavintu @neerajt4 The most obvious question: How is it different from Slack? What will be your goto market strategy? Are you targeting teams who aren't onl Slack?

@bhavintu All the best! :)

@coffeeandjunk @neerajt4 Flock is different from Slack in several ways, and this video perfectly explains those differentiators: I’m confident this will make a strong case for Flock. Flock can be used by all teams across the board - be it a small team or department within a company, a community of like minded individuals working towards a common goal, or an entire enterprise. We are actively marketing Flock’s benefits to all these segments, and Flock has seen massive traction in each of them. Some of our existing customers were previous users of competitor services like Slack, and they’ve seen tremendous value in making the switch. To amplify our reach, we’ve also started showcasing Flock at premiere events. Most recently we were at Techcrunch Disrupt, NY and SF and TNW Momentum. With the most recent launch of our platform, FlockOS, we want to start reaching out to developers across the globe. Currently, we’re participating at external hackathons as well as conducting our very own ‘Flockathons’. We’ve partnered with Devpost, Hackerearth and AWS for the same. You’ll find more information about the Flock platform here - dev.flock.com

@liamboogar nothing much. Switch if lower price, more features makes sense.

@ujjwaltrivedi What are those features? And Slack is free for unlimited users.

@liamboogar Slack costs too much? At least for non profits.

@androidlove @liamboogar Slack is free to use until you need deep integrations.

@liamboogar You shouldn't. Slack is an established company, with a working business model, run by people with a track record of building successful companies, like flickr etc.

@bhavintu Awesome!! All the best. I'll surely pass give it a try and pass the word around :)

@bhavintu it doesn't answer my question/statement as to why you're making unquantifiable claims like it's 'the fastest team messenger'. it seems that the title on product hunt has been updated now at least

@_jacksmith Now that they got rid of the superlatives in the description on ph, what do you think of how it compares to Slack?

@andrewwarner I can't really see any differences that would make me want to invest time trying to evaluate it vs Slack. I'm not really much of a Slack user; but if I was a user of a product in that space, I'd probably just keep using Slack, even if something else was incrementally better, due to the likelihood of Slack continuing to be dominant in the long run (due to large amount of funding and traction). from my experience, something like a chat app has large switching costs. you don't want to "test out" new products internally, as a team will quickly get 'app fatigue' every time you try out something new. most people just want something that works and only switch if something is drastically better. It would also be bad if you switched your whole team and then the smaller app you switched to shut down.

@coffeeandjunk Thank you :)

@_jacksmith Or even #1 messenger app. I'd love to see the data behind that.

@andreasduess We have a three-tier pricing - Free, Pro and Enterprise. Our Pro plan is competitively priced and you can check the details on all plans here- https://www.flock.com/pricing.html

@davidsfeng We are working on an app which will help teams migrate from Slack to Flock. In the meantime, why don't you go ahead and create your team on Flock, we can get one of our on-boarding expert to help you get your team on board.

@davidsfeng @bhavintu They just did. Read here for details - http://economictimes.indiatimes....

@imkarthikk the desktop apps are hybrid apps, and are available on web, OSX, windows desktop & chrome extension. If your underlying question is about the performance of the apps, do give our apps a spin - startup time, file sharing etc are fast - you won't be disappointed.