[commitpizza]

Seems nice but I would be afraid of basing my business on another product. If successful, there is nothing to say that Slack wouldn't simply copy the functionality and launching their own feature.

Happens all the time with these popular services within other popular services.

[paxys]

That's not as much of a risk as people make it out to be. Being successful is a good thing, even if you are dependent on another platform. As long as you are adding something of value, you are more likely to get bought out by Slack than get ripped off by them.

[pydry]

Even if they do the negotiations will be one sided coz they can always cut you off and replace you with an internally made product that's 80% as good with no integration costs.

[bachonk]

Platform risk is always there, but we see this as a highly targeted use-case outside of their core competency.

The Salesforce acquisition spices things up a bit, but Slack's been great at supporting developers in the same way Apple did with the App Store