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Ryan Hoover@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
Nice work, @vijaytella. You and many others are building companies on top of Slack. It reminds me of the early days of the Facebook platform. Of course, reliance on a single platform has its risks. What will you do if Slack tightens up its developer ecosystem or builds something like this directly into the product?
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Vijay Tella @Workato@vijaytella · Founder and CEO
@rrhoover Great question, Ryan! We believe this shift to chat as consoles for enterprise workers is early, but real and fundamental. There is just too much fragmentation of info, too much context switching across business apps and too many distractions to getting things done. Slack has led the way in this shift. We are huge fans of Slack and our company… See more
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Paul Walsh@paul__walsh · Founder, @MetaCert and Creator, @bCRM.
@rrhoover @vijaytella Totally agree with this. I think there's a difference though, which is down to the intentions of the founding team. Slack by nature, is very open and developer-community-friendly. In fact, I suspect that 2016 will see Slack (and HipChat) demonstrate the power of APIs for developers like Mozilla did with Firefox extensions during the ear… See more
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Vijay Tella @Workato@vijaytella · Founder and CEO
@paul__walsh @rrhoover "I think there's a difference though, which is down to the intentions of the founding team. Slack by nature, is very open and developer-community-friendly". Well said! Could not agree more.
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