<story><title>Salesforce completes acquisition of Slack</title><url>https://slack.com/intl/en-es/blog/news/salesforce-completes-acquisition-of-slack</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>keewee7</author><text>I think both Slack and Discord are good examples of products that entered already well established niches and still succeeded.&lt;p&gt;Slack launched in August 2013 as a plain text chat service without voice and video calls. Skype and HipChat already existed for a decade before Slack entered the market.&lt;p&gt;In just seven years Slack went from being an internal team chat app to making a $28 billion exit.</text></comment>
<story><title>Salesforce completes acquisition of Slack</title><url>https://slack.com/intl/en-es/blog/news/salesforce-completes-acquisition-of-slack</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tayloramurphy</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s pretty frustrating how many OSS projects use Slack but there are no options available to pay for a discounted pro plan. We&amp;#x27;d love to pay a flat-ish fee for the community but it creates a disincentive to grow. Their active user fair pricing helps a bit, but it&amp;#x27;s not great.</text></comment>