HipChat
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| Developer(s) | Atlassian Inc. |
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| Operating system | Mac, Linux, Windows, Android, iOS + Web-based application |
| Type | Hosted chat and instant messaging |
| License | Proprietary |
| Website | www |
HipChat is a web service for internal private online chat and instant messaging. As well as one-on-one and group/topic chat, it also features cloud-based file storage, video calling, searchable message-history and inline-image viewing. HipChat is available to download onto computers running Windows, Mac or Linux, as well as Android and iOS smartphones and tablets. As of 2014[update] HipChat uses a freemium model, as much of the service is free with some additional features requiring organizations to pay per month.
Founded by Chris Rivers, Garret Heaton and Pete Curley, the trio behind HipCal and Plaxo Pulse, HipChat launched in January 2010, and acquired by Atlassian in March 2012. HipChat is mainly written in PHP and Python using the Twisted software framework, but uses other third-party services.
HipChat was started by Chris Rivers, Garret Heaton and Pete Curley, who studied together at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). They launched the first beta on December 13, 2009. HipChat was made available to the public starting January 25, 2010.
On March 22, 2010, HipChat launched a web chat beta which allowed users to chat via the browser in addition to the existing Windows, Mac and Linux client. HipChat's web client came out of beta and SMS chat support was added on April 16, 2010. On May 12, 2010, HipChat unveiled its official API.
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