On the latest episode of Tradeoffs, @hnshah and @Patticus discussed more of this context:
* Campfire and Hipchat helped create and prove their was a market. * Slack was fun and colorful; other apps were drab. * Folks wanted more integrations.
* Prevalence of smartphones, and employees using their phones for work. * Increase in remote work. * We were used to “newsfeed” apps (Twitter, RSS readers). * A generation that grew up on IRC came of age and joined the workforce. * Emoji.
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Justin Jackson@mijustin
What “macro story” needed to play out in society for there to be market-wide demand for Slack?
"The journey from product-user fit to product-market fit tends to go:
1. Build something people want. 2. Then, explore how many other people also want that thing. 3. Finally, get your product in their hands as fast as possible."
I like the questions that @a16z recommends that founders ask here:
1. Who really wants this today? 2. How many of those people are out in the wild? 3. What macro story must play out in the market [for there to be] market-wide demand?
@dohertyjf I have noticed that I sleep better (I haven’t been drinking all of 2019), but I still have these bouts of waking up at 2am-3am. When my mind starts racing, I can’t get back to sleep.