Comments on post “Hangouts Chat by Google”
Andreas Duess
@andreasduess · CCO, Nourish Food Marketing
Google's answer to Slack. We are deeply integrated with google's services - we use G-Suite as our office suite - so both Google Meet and now Chat are interesting to us.
Meet has replaced appear.in and I can see Chat become the first Slack challenger we will look at seriously. Google are on their A game at the moment, both with their hardware offerings (huge surprise there) and their services.
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jeremy carson
@thejeremycarson · Founder, creata.co
@andreasduess seeing as slack's chat aspect is essentially IIRC on steroids (and easily copyable), it will be interesting to see how the integrations element is approached by google and others.
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Andreas Duess
@andreasduess · CCO, Nourish Food Marketing
@thejeremycarson Very true. The integration, and willingness to be open, is one of Slack's defining features. Having said that, after an initial flurry of excitement, we have now removed almost all Slack integrations and went back to simplicity.
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Brandon
@getbrandflakes · Cofounder
@andreasduess @thejeremycarson I 100% agree on integrations. Many of them cause productivity decreases as opposed to increases.
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Christian Montoya
@cm0nt0y4 · Looking for a new opportunity
@getbrandflakes @andreasduess @thejeremycarson Totally valid, most of the fun integrations are not conducive to a work environment. But I was able to build some integrations at my last job that were super helpful, like the ability to create a bug report from inside Slack that would post to our Pivotal Board. The Slack API has a lot of power if you think of your company Slack as an OS for your team.
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