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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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2071 points JustSkyfall | 3 comments | 18 Sep 25 01:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.409s | source
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fn-mote ◴[18 Sep 25 02:24 UTC] No.45284378[source]▶
I was ready to be unsympathetic - too bad for the company - but then I read TFA and it's a rug pull on a nonprofit teaching coding to kids....

https://hackclub.com/

(They do help clubs sell things, taking "7% of income", so they do have a revenue stream, but the money that Slack wants would pay a veritable army of student interns.)

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chrisasquith ◴[18 Sep 25 05:14 UTC] No.45285698[source]▶
Hi! Ty! And Hack club is totally free to teens and we provide travel stipends, hardware, electronics and more. (We don’t charge 7 percent to clubs to sell things :)) hack club run a fiscal sponsorship and adult-orgs using it pay us 7percent- which we use to make more things free to teens. - hack club cofounder here
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ugh123 ◴[18 Sep 25 06:11 UTC] No.45286077[source]▶
Have you thought about moving to Discord? I'm sure it won't be free for your org, but could be friendlier terms.
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sfn42 ◴[18 Sep 25 06:15 UTC] No.45286104[source]▶
I was going to suggest the same. Why would it not be free? I would expect it to be free. I don't think running a server costs anything.
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1. worthless-trash ◴[18 Sep 25 06:26 UTC] No.45286191[source]▶
Yet.

Just takes them to hire the right marketing genius and suddenly you'll be subscribing to send more than 5 messages a week.

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2. jon-wood ◴[18 Sep 25 09:32 UTC] No.45287548[source]▶
Even now it costs extra to have file uploads over 50MB, high quality audio, and large video calls. Features that an organisation like this could legitimately need.
3. keithnz ◴[18 Sep 25 11:21 UTC] No.45288253[source]▶
we use discord, it's great, we wrote our own bots for the things we need. In terms of making money, it's just discord has a different model for making money, it doesn't want the servers to cost money, it wants as many servers as possible so many people want to use discord. It sells directly to users.