As more and more of our work is done via the cloud, an increasing array of tools have emerged to help us manage and collaborate on that work with our peers.

Slack is arguably the most well known tool in this space, and it has seen rapid growth in the 18 months of its existence.  It revealed recently that it has now passed the 1 million users per day mark, which is an impressive feat in such a short space of time.

Of these 1 million or so users, Slack say that around 300,000 of these are paying customers, with the customer revealing revenues of around $25 million per year.

FileChat

Another option in the same field is new entrant FileChat, which offers the same kind of sharing and collaborating facilities via the cloud.

FileChat works seamlessly with services such as Google Drive and Dropbox, so users can easily invite users to collaborate on documents.  Each document is given a group chat pop-up whereby users can discuss the various issues around the document, whilst there are also various approval type features that allow users to vote or like documents and ideas.

The software is free via both a web based interface and via its Android app, whilst a beta version of it is currently available in the App Store for Apple devices.

Whilst it’s a nice enough tool, with Google already offering a basic chat service within Drive, and other tools such as Slack obtaining such rapid growth, it isn’t immediately clear how FileChat will differentiate itself sufficiently to gain a foothold in the market.

Time will tell.