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@bhavintu · CEO - Flock, Ringo, Zeta

Hey @coffeeandjunk, @liamboogar, @_jacksmith and @imkarthikk. I've addressed your queries in a single answer below since they were quite similar. :) To start of with, since we get asked a lot about how Flock is different from Slack, we've summed up the differences in a simple video:

In addition to this, Flock also gives you a world of flexibility when designing custom apps for Flock - allowing you to leverage elements of the Flock’s UI. Flock’s apps are deeply integrated into the UI, allowing users to interact with them through a wide variety of ways. As opposed to this, users can only interact with a Slack app through bots and notifications. We know of quite a few teams who've moved from Slack to Flock. Here are a few testimonials: https://twitter.com/flockchat/st... https://twitter.com/_LukeRodrigu... https://twitter.com/flockchat/st...

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Abhishek Chakraborty

@coffeeandjunk · UX Designer

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

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Jack Smith

@_jacksmith · Serial Entrepreneur & Startup Adviser

@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

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✎ Andrew Warner

@andrewwarner

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

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Jack Smith

@_jacksmith · Serial Entrepreneur & Startup Adviser

@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.