In deciding what startup to start, I’ve been thinking about what problem space I want to tackle. An area that’s drawing my attention is team communication and collaboration, especially for knowledge workers. This is for several reasons: With the trend towards distributed/hybrid teams, effective communication is becoming increasingly important.
I've work with Teams for a year. It makes chat communication very painful. It has a thread model that is worse than slack. Hides channels even when they have new entries. The permission model around teams bad.
As an alternative for a chat system that does it much better check Zulip and their Streams (channels) and Topics (threads) system. Is not perfect, but works better at a bigger scale than Slack.
Code formatting in Microsoft Teams is one of the worst problems we have. The alignment breaks, colours from Visual Studio are kept and it just looks hoaky.
You should incorporate Discord into your analysis. Similar to Slack but differentiated, in particular with how users join multiple different Discords, but with a consistent user profile.
My personal experience with Slack aligns well with your research.
I wonder why you didn't mention anything about Workspace? I don't know how well the product is doing but I remember enjoying it while at Facebook.
Does any product in this space have The Feedᵀᴹ? It seems like an interesting idea to combine the perf, design, integrations (platform) of Slack with a personalize feed.
I've work with Teams for a year. It makes chat communication very painful. It has a thread model that is worse than slack. Hides channels even when they have new entries. The permission model around teams bad.
As an alternative for a chat system that does it much better check Zulip and their Streams (channels) and Topics (threads) system. Is not perfect, but works better at a bigger scale than Slack.
Where you can be in multiple Slack workspaces at the same time, Teams does not handle that in parallel. It switches between them. It's maddening.
Code formatting in Microsoft Teams is one of the worst problems we have. The alignment breaks, colours from Visual Studio are kept and it just looks hoaky.
You should incorporate Discord into your analysis. Similar to Slack but differentiated, in particular with how users join multiple different Discords, but with a consistent user profile.
It's an interesting problem space.
My personal experience with Slack aligns well with your research.
I wonder why you didn't mention anything about Workspace? I don't know how well the product is doing but I remember enjoying it while at Facebook.
Does any product in this space have The Feedᵀᴹ? It seems like an interesting idea to combine the perf, design, integrations (platform) of Slack with a personalize feed.