Startalk is now open source on GitHub, inviting you to contribute to it

Startalk’s official website: im.qunar.com/new/#/home

Open source code: github.com/qunarcorp/q…

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As an “old-doer” in the Internet tourism industry, Qunar has accumulated hundreds of thousands of businesses and numerous enterprise-level customers in more than ten years. Enterprise IM this big cake, perhaps is where to contend.

After Ali, Tencent has launched Nail nail, enterprise wechat, the small giants of the enterprise IM market is also ready to move. First meituan launched Daxiang, followed by Toutiao, which launched Lark, and Qunar Startalk, which had been operating internally for more than three years, launched on New Year’s Day 2018 to test the market for a share of the pie.


Why are all the small giants fighting over the SaaS market?

In 2018, the enterprise market has entered the stage of wild expansion. Compared with the difficult situation that IaaS and PaaS have been usurped by giants, it seems much easier to enter the SaaS market. There are many market opportunities and unicorns have not yet been formed, making the SaaS market become the blue sea in the eyes of BAT and even small giants in various fields

Enterprise IM, because of the collection of instant messaging, voice, video, conference, collaboration, address book and other communication functions, is one of the enterprise office information portal, therefore, more and more enterprises agree that enterprise IM is the backbone of the enterprise and the highway. That’s why giants and startups are piling into the field.


Can Startalk go head-to-head with an elephant, Lark?

Startalk was actually born in 2015, before Lark. Considering productivity and data security, Startalk was born and officially replaced Tencent RTX as qunar’s internal employee communication tool in 2015. Different from lark’s strategy of promoting it urgently, Startalk inherits qunar’s gene of “rigorous and calm”. Its overall stability and ease of use have been verified internally for more than 3 years before being introduced to the market.

In terms of external promotion, Meituan Elephant and Lark toutiao both focus on improving efficiency. Daxiang improves organizational efficiency by opening up internal OA and business system for enterprises; Lark designs chat to improve communication efficiency. Startalk’s focus on data security, which appeals to government agencies, big companies and financial institutions, has captured another pain point.

Not to mention Startalk’s open source strategy. After three years of steady operation and continuous improvement, Startalk chose to go “open source.” In 2019, all Startalk code will be officially open source on GitHub for market validation. This pioneering and risky move was enough to break the corporate user filter and give Startalk a rare market opportunity.


In the future, the enterprise IM market will be more interesting

At present, Alibaba’s Dingding and Tencent’s wechat are still the mainstream battlefield of enterprise-level IM, while meituan Elephant and Toutiao Lark can not be underestimated. Startalk (Star language) as the first domestic open source IM software, a new way of development model, whether it can let him like “Telegram”, the recognition of the market, the love of users, we wait and see!


Startalk’s official website: im.qunar.com/new/#/home

Open source code: github.com/qunarcorp/q…