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The value of Slack Inc is their API, which is currently de-facto locked to their client. People would still pay for Slack if they could use alternative clients, because the client is not the value.



You can argue that their client is not as good as it could be, that you have greater skills to deliver a better product, etc. But it has value, otherwise we'd all be using curl to access the Slack API with no downsides. That's clearly not the case by far.


> But it has value, otherwise we'd all be using curl to access the Slack API with no downsides. That's clearly not the case by far.

Only because it's next-to-impossible to call the API, because of the way they lock features to their client!




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