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quite useful, great job

I still don't get how Slack is different than HipChat. In fact, I think Slack just copied the latter.

Seriously, am I missing something?

Wait, Evernote raised $70M at a $1B valuation in 2012. This funding round seems low. Am I missing something?

Slack's marketing is genius. The whole play on making Email look bad is brilliant and many startups are following suit.

But to be quite frank Slack is making things a whole lot worse (for me only perhaps?). It's super distracting. I have to add a new app to my workflow (while maintaining email). And Slack is much more demanding (end up checking it much more the email). Too many notifications and msgs. It isn't as ground-breaking as they want us to believe.

I wonder how long it will take for others to feel the same way I do? (maybe I'm the outlier?)

Mr. Butterfield is doing a stellar job leading the wheel. Congrats!

Excellent point. One thing that I'm noticing is that other tools are becoming just as busy as Email for me. At times I feel like there isn't a difference. The volume of email is what bothers me. But now if that volume is being transferred to Slack (sorry to point them out) I'm still stuck with the same problem. It's the people behind the tools which cause the problem IMHO :)

Great product. Nice to see Howie start another startup (Remember Etacts?)

I've heard internal employees calling this phone 'Fugly'; Fat and Ugly.

The neat thing with email is that you could just look in the 'Sent' folder and find all the emails you sent to Ohlife and see all your entries :)

Isn't there a policy against repeat posts? (although I get the url's are diff)

Totally agree. Which is why I'm excited about the Gmail API and Inboxapp

I think that a lot of "startups" are using the fantasy of an email-less world as a marketing tactic. I agree, I don't think email is going to disappear. Whether that is a good thing or bad, it's irrelevant

Since email encryption seems like the topic of discussion today, I thought I'd throw my 2 cents in :)

Novel. This is a project of Smore; which coincidentally does incredibly awesome design work with their products. This (ykombinator) is a good example.

Great job. I love tools that make things dead simple :)

Firstly, congratulations on making something useful in one day. Great job. I skimmed over the documentation/examples and this is excellent.

A side note: I really love Mailgun as a service :)