# What about a Desktop app, to replace Slack and the like?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-about-a-desktop-app-to-replace-slack-and-the-like/27402
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [10 april 2015 om 03:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-about-a-desktop-app-to-replace-slack-and-the-like/27402 "2015-04-10T03:36:51Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [10 april 2015 om 06:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-about-a-desktop-app-to-replace-slack-and-the-like/27402/6 "2015-04-10T06:41:45Z")

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Well, Slack is “free”, and there are many arguments that we should take that position too – host for nothing, for anyone. So that’s the real underlying issue. But some problems

1. That is far more scale than we could ever hope to take on. Free is a nightmare, unless you are fueled by zillions of VC.

2. Our signup process is still super rough. Lots of low hanging fruit there which is actually a good thing but for consumer free scale we would need a mirror shine polished EZ onboarding with wizards, and stupidly simple point n click (or tap) to get going for small groups.

I am confident we will get there on 2, on 1, not sure if we even _want_ to go there.

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