Slack Is the Emerging Platform for Early Adopter Group Travel Services
Skift Take
Slack is becoming the messaging app of choice for modern work teams, and these nascent travel services are just the start. Expect more established business travel related services and new Slack-native services to crop up in coming months.
Slack, the super buzzy messaging app for businesses, is all the rage everywhere that people talk about tech, startups, valuations, and of course killing emails.
And now with 1.1 million daily active users in just a year-and-change of existence, $340 million in funding raised and a mega-unicorn $2.8 billion valuation to boot, a lot of third-party services -- such as Dropbox, Google Hangouts and Google Drive, Twitter, Mailchimp, and many others -- are now integrating their services within the Slack platform so users can use their services right from the Slack service.
In fact this is one of the main reasons for the hyper-growth of Slack: Its vast integration capability with these third-party apps keeps all these disparate digital services in one user interface.
Most of these service integrations have so far been focused on tech teams, or tech-savvy business teams, as that was the Slack first-adopter userbase.
But as it moves into the mainstream work environment, its usage is now expanding into other early extra-curricular services through its main chat function, such as dating chat, startup adv
