A Software Intern's take on Hipchat
June 30, 2016
A Software Intern's take on Hipchat
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with HipChat
We use it in our organization to keep the engineers in communication with each other. Since we moved the engineers between two floors of our building and as we increase in size it becomes harder and harder to communicate effectively with each other. Hipchat makes it convenient to get in contact with someone form the comfort of my own desk, especially when trying to get in contact with my manager.
- Easy integration with other JIRA products (linking tickets and such).
- Compatibility with bots and the ability to create our own.
- Custom emoticons add a lot of fun.
- The service seems to go down somewhat frequently.
- The iPhone app doesn't connect very easily and crashes frequently.
- Card integration not fully fleshed out between rooms and direct messages.
- Discord and Slack
Hipchat is very similar with other services, but I believe it shines in its integration with other JIRA services. When your company is based around other JIRA products it just makes sense to go with the JIRA messaging client that easily connects to all the other services. To me it is a no brainer.