Jive Chime

@benln The main thing is the ability to pull in all your co-workers and sync with your entire company directory so you know that you're separating personal and professional conversations.

@benln Definitely get this question quite a bit and it is a good one! We think Slack does a great job of enabling workflows for various types of teams, such as R&D. As we were building Chime we wanted it to be a great tool for anyone in the company, and have focused on simplicity. When we were doing product research, we found many companies using Slack or Hipchat that still use a ton of WhatsApp and text messaging to communicate with their co-workers. If you're running late to a meeting, do you pull Slack out of your pocket to let the team know? It's not that you can't, it's just that most people don't. We're trying to do something a bit different and there's a ton of companies around the world still stuck in email. With Chime we want to be the one tool where it is the fastest way to reach anyone in your team or company.

@kurtybot Chime is created by our company called Jive Software (hence the name Jive Chime)! If you had 500 people in your company on Chime, those users will show up in one roster in the company tab. You can then message them 1 on 1 or create public/private group messages. Chime scales incredibly well for an organization of 500. People can create their own groups with their teams and still have the ability to message anyone in the company. We can definitely serve that use case. Chime also has the option to sync with your directory making it even easier to get the 500 people on board.

@anuj_verma Thanks for the answer. I like "Chime" even better... go with it! I see a huge market opportunity for you guys with large groups, it's somewhere I think it makes sense to attack Slack. Have you guys considered focusing solely on this market? I'm still not very clear how I might be better off using Chime over Slack for my 500+ group of people. I'm excited about this product because I think it potentially solves a ton of issues that Slack might not be able to, at least for the time being. Let us know how we can help!

@ilan Thanks for the post! There are plenty of team communications tools out there, but none of them have quite hit the mark. We wanted to give coworkers a beautiful app where they could connect on the go without the headaches of switching between contexts just to keep a conversation flowing. I'm happy to answer any questions on the product!