[Menlo_Park]

Hi kajarya! Well, for once, we're only displaying a discount for committing yourself for 12 months, that's fair, wouldn't you agree? Furthermore, neither Slack nor Hipchat are available for fee if you want to use it at its full potential.

Most importantly, with ChatGrape we're going beyond of simply providing a chat based communication solution. On ChatGpape, we're offering a smart engine that automatically triggers workflows based on your communication, such as, let's meet at 2pm tomorrow - automatically adds a calendar event.

There's more than that, of course, but the essence is that we're running a quite extensive engine in the background to make your team's communication easier and more efficient, and that takes up actual processing power.

Finally, considering that our aim to to save you time that you can use better on building your own baby, instead of wasting time searching for documents you ant to share and issues you want to reference - the average startup using ChatGrape has access to all the features for around 35 bugs per month, which is really a reasonable price, don't you think?

[gphilip]

let's meet at 2pm tomorrow - automatically adds a calendar event.

How does that pan out when 2pm is not good for the other person?

"Hey Greg, let's meet at 2pm tomorrow."

"Sure, great. Wait, I have that code review starting 1:45, so 2pm is not a good time. Shall we meet at, say, 11am instead?"

"No, 11am is not good for me. Let's meet around noon tomorrow?"

"Got to pick up the kid at noon but I'll be back at work around 12:30pm. Can we meet over lunch at 12:30pm? I am free till the code review starts."

"OK, let's meet at 12:45 then."

"Cool!"

Does this add five calendar events to the calendars of both the people in the conversation?

[Menlo_Park]

Glad that you ask! Let me explain. In fact, "automatically" is actually a bit misleading. The correct term must be "half-automatically", because everything triggered within ChatGrape still requires your confirmation. (If not, we'd be flooded with false-positives.) Think about tagging on Facebook, specifically, writing a status update and tagging a page of a friend. If you start typing his / her name, Facebook will add a drop down menu and suggest the name(s) - you can select it or choose to ignore it - and the drop down will disappear again. This said, if you were to type, "No, 11am is not good for me. [first drop down with calendar event suggestion, which you simply ignore and go on typing] let's meet around noon tomorrow?" [second drop down with calendar event suggestion, which you confirm, and thus send me a calendar event invite]. Does this make sense?

[alphydan]

I'm in! I'll pay with 35 grasshoppers.

[naturalethic]

35 bugs per month!

[Menlo_Park]

Yeah, it's either 35 bugs or 35 bucks per month, the choice is yours :-)