9 years ago from Nice Shoes, Art Director
I'm looking for some sort of web app that behaves a bit like a IM but also allows me and my team to share files and updates on all the different projects.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
1 vote for Slack. I use Hipchat for my day job and Slack in the evenings with a remote startup team, and Slack has been great for us.
Great integration with other tools like Trello and Github.
How is Slack free?
Team Chat is free, you pay for storage space etc... https://slack.com/pricing
Another +1 for Slack. Hands down the best product we tried for communicating with the team.
edit* Excuse my first post here. Was supposed to reply to the story and I'm not too sure how to delete...
Slack, nothing else required
Try Hall.com, we are free and secure!
"We are secure". What?
Hall is a HIPPA compliant and secure messaging app for businesses.
I just mean that "We are secure" and "Hall is a secure app" are very empty statements.
And you're also implying that other apps are "not secure" (whatever that means)…
Apologies Joel, though you may feel the statement is "empty", secure, and security happens to be one of our cornerstones, Followed by cross company, and cross platform. I am not on here putting up a one pager about our product and all of its features. But if you do the homework many competitors are not secure;. Hangouts, Skype and other applications people are using are not.... Companies like Palantir (a customer) happen to make security or being secure of the utmost of importance.
Thanks for the feedback!
We use only Campfire with weekly Hangouts on a Friday. Works very well. Hardly send any emails.
Slack has done wonders for our team of 5. Our communication was very fragmented because we were using so many means of communications (email, Google Chat, text, GroupMe); which led to us not being connected.
We’ve been testing Slack for a while and it’s been awesome.
hipchat, slack, or campfire
This has never been an issue for us who live in China, we use Tencent QQ for all kinds of communicating, it has almost all features you need, like file sharing, screenshot capturing, group chat, etc. It also has an international version, http://www.imqq.com/, worth trying.
You might like Sqwiggle
Hipchat
We're using Slack. But recently discovered http://kato.im. Doesn't look very pretty but has a lot of integrations and nice touches (I.e concurrent chats)
Another vote for Slack!
However http://glip.com looks pretty promising!
Here at thoughtbot we now have a ridiculous amount offices across the nation and one in Europe. We currently use Campfire for chat, Trello for project organization, and Basecamp for general company announcements, etc.
We've been testing Slack and are leaning towards that for the future.
Slack is a big newcomer, but flowdock and hipchat should also be mentioned.
I wish my company could use Slack, but it's a significant price bump over HipChat that we use now for the number of users we have.
Another vote for Slack.
+1 for HipChat. Easy to upload/attach files and create separate rooms. Works across all platforms and mobile.
We use Slack at Braintree and it's been awesome. File sharing in particular is super helpful, and the native apps are great too.
slack - chat
asana / trello - tasks
gmail / zoho - email
teuxdeux - daily tasks overview
evernote - notes
dropbox / google drive - files / folders
invision - mockup images
If you’re a small team and value non-interruptive communication, you might like Folders.
We used to use HipChat but we had too many firewall issues with connectivity and stuff, so we switched over to Slack. I like that it's easy to use and stuff, I wish there was more personalization over specificity of notifications though. I kind of get too many emails from it.
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