Founder of pingpong here. We built pingpong to prioritize long periods of uninterrupted work so that your team can be more productive. It's made for async communication and can be realtime when needed.

For our team, we found that slack was stealing our time and attention, making it difficult to do our best work with the barrage of notifications for things that aren't urgent, inter-mixed conversations, fear of missing out on a conversation because you're heads down, and the green, "presence" dot (aka hey everyone, I'm available to be interrupted).

So we made pingpong to be the antidote to its endlessly-distracting, anxiety-inducing nature. If your team feels similarly, give pingpong a spin. We'd love to get some feedback and I'm happy to answer any questions.

Sounds like an interesting problem to solve. But the link only let me enter an email.

Hey Ben, we've been doing a quick walkthrough the app with people over Google Hangouts because we haven't built onboarding inside the app. :) I can get you set up today if you're interested.

can you import from Slack? That is going to be a must if you want people to switch. Also do you support integrations/bots/plugins?

We're thinking of how we'll address the import from Slack. Out of curiosity, why is that a must from your perspective?

We plan to support integrations. Which ones are must haves for you and why?

You are positioning yourself as a Slack competitor, so I would imagine the most obvious objection is that "we have so much data in slack already". We have a bunch of bots that are useful like SecurityBot and VacationTracker, and our CI process sends out useful slack messages at various points. Those would be the minimum I would think for my company to switch. Of course the real stakeholders probably have higher demands