Slack

The analysis of slack's creation.

The essence is a communication tool, similar to IRC, WeChat. But It's a PaaS(Platform as a service).

Slack Creations

Communication Tool PaaS to relight the "IRC/WeChat".
The focus shifted to the group chat
Independent domain(sub-domain), and separate user and password on each domain.
Groups(channel) on site to manage directly. the channel could be private or public.
The chat history could be store permanently.
add the additonal is organized as: file, text/code snippet, post(article)
All additional could be search-able.
More conditional search mode.
The users and the developers face to face directly.
Integrate the third-party service easily. these changes on the third-party will be sent back.
OpenAPI to control the slack

Free:
- Search and browse 10k most recent messages
- 5GB total storage
- 5 service integrations (like Twitter, Google Docs, Dropbox, GitHub and many more)
Standard: $6.67 /user/month, $8 monthly
- Unlimited message searchable archive
- Unlimited service integrations (like Twitter, Google Docs, Dropbox, GitHub and many more)
- Usage stats and reporting
- Forward emails into Slack
- Individual user control over security policies
Plus: $12.50 /user/month, $15 monthly
- SAML-based single sign-on (SSO)
- Compliance Exports of all message history
- 99.99% guaranteed uptime SLA
- 24/7 support with 4 hour response time
- Advanced usage statistics
- Administrative control over security policies
- External channel support
Enterprise: $48 monthly
- Federation across multiple teams with a unified team directory
- Unified security, data retention and compliance policies across all federated teams
- Organization-wide reporting, metrics & analytics
- Consolidated billing & administration across teams
- Configurable email ingestion service

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