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Why pay for zoom and slack? Is something lacking from https://zoom.us/feature/messaging vis-à-vis slack ? Easy 'bot integration perhaps (slack certainly have a lot of integrations out of the box)?

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Slack has the stickiness / lock-in that I think Zoom may lack (at least for the video part). We have years of history in Slack that we wouldn't really want to lose moving to an alternative. We do also make fairly heavy use of integrations. Trialling and switching to an alternative would be a much bigger investment and less incremental than starting to use Zoom for video calls was, even for a relatively small startup like us.

They may also have a bit of a marketing problem. I was vaguely aware they had some chat functionality but didn't realize it was as feature competitive with Slack as it appears on that page.

Thanks for the replies;I guess there aren't any obvious reasons to use both (unless one really likes slack;I'm not sure that I do, although slack is bearable through wee-slack / weechat plugin).

I am a little confused about the pricing model for zoom;it looks like it's roughly one "host" pr team lead + extra money for "rooms"? And/or one host pr team member if you want full flexibility?

I think most people start with Slack and it becomes ingrained, then they outgrow Hangouts / Meet or try Zoom and realize it's less laggy and a better experience for video overall. I've never heard of their chat app before now.

I am a heavy Zoom video conference user but I had no idea about Slack-like chat features. Thank you!

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