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HipChat
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HipChat

#4in Messaging
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What is HipChat?

HipChat is a hosted private chat service for your company or team. Invite colleagues to share ideas and files in persistent group chat rooms. Get your team off AIM, Google Talk, and Skype — HipChat was built for business.

HipChat is a tool in the Messaging category of a tech stack.

Key Features

Desktop apps (Windows, Linux, Mac)Mobile appsWeb appOne-on-one messagingPersistent group chatDesigned for companiesChat and file historySSL securityNo server to maintainGuest accessIntegrated audio & videoSelf-building buddylistHTTP API

HipChat Pros & Cons

Pros of HipChat

  • ✓Integrates well with a lot of developer tools
  • ✓Developer-friendly
  • ✓Clients for every major platform
  • ✓Free unlimited users
  • ✓Mobile-friendly
  • ✓Extremely easy to use for non-tech guys
  • ✓Good api integration
  • ✓Irc-like
  • ✓Reliable
  • ✓Feature rich

Cons of HipChat

  • ✗Discontinued with the Atlassian Stack
  • ✗Purchased by and merged with Slack

HipChat Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to HipChat?

Slack

Slack

Imagine all your team communication in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. That’s Slack. All your messages. All your files. And everything from Twitter, Dropbox, Google Docs, Asana, Trello, GitHub and dozens of other services. All together.

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams

See content and chat history anytime, including team chats with Skype that are visible to the whole team. Private group chats are available for smaller group conversations.

Telegram

Telegram

Users can send messages and exchange photos, videos, stickers, audio and files of any type. It provides instant messaging, simple, fast, secure and synced across all your devices.

Mattermost

Mattermost

Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall.

RocketChat

RocketChat

Rocket.Chat is a Web Chat Server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor fullstack framework. It is a great solution for communities and companies wanting to privately host their own chat service or for developers looking forward to build and evolve their own chat platforms.

Gitter

Gitter

Free chat rooms for your public repositories. A bit like IRC only smarter. Chats for private repositories as well as organisations.

HipChat Integrations

Blossom, CopperEgg, CopperEgg, Crashlytics, Crashlytics and 7 more are some of the popular tools that integrate with HipChat. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with HipChat.

Blossom
Blossom
CopperEgg
CopperEgg
CopperEgg
CopperEgg
Crashlytics
Crashlytics
Crashlytics
Crashlytics
Bitbucket
Bitbucket
Bugsnag
Bugsnag
Get Satisfaction
Get Satisfaction
Get Satisfaction
Get Satisfaction
GitHub
GitHub
G Suite
G Suite
Heroku
Heroku

HipChat Discussions

Discover why developers choose HipChat. Read real-world technical decisions and stack choices from the StackShare community.Showing 4 of 5 discussions.

Felipe Vieira
Felipe Vieira

Jun 5, 2015

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Part of our team are spread over cities and they are connected by chats or conference, sharing insights, alerts and tech discussions. HipChat

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Kelvin Jones
Kelvin Jones

Co-founder at bright machine

Mar 17, 2015

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Team communications and notices, such as when a test suite has run, when commits have been made to one of our git repos. HipChat

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Tyler Morgan
Tyler Morgan

Jan 9, 2015

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I use HipChat to communicate with group members. I like that I can hop on and catch up on any conversations that I missed. HipChat

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Gad Berger
Gad Berger

Nov 13, 2014

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Everyone in our company uses HipChat. From our help center to our engineering department, we do most of our internal conversations in hipchat rooms. Also as a remote engineering team, it is super useful to have a service like this so that conversations are logged and in the open. HipChat

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