Remote and hybrid teams needing real-time communication and workflow integrations. Connects almost everything.
The integration ecosystem is Slack's real moat. It's not just chat — it's where your tools talk to each other.
Teams on tight budgets — AI features require $15/user Business+. 3-user minimum on all paid plans.
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Morning EOD briefings: Cron jobs post a structured summary to Slack every morning and evening — calendar, open GitHub issues, important emails. It pushes a RSS feed of my tasks that I can view on a widget on my phone.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Receiving task commands, morning/EOD briefings, and RSS feed of tasks
I think the Slack team is asleep at the wheel snoozing through this whole AI thing. Anyway, they made it stupidly hard to do anything productive via their APIs. The UI for managing permissions is a disgraceful hell of complexity.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Integration via APIs for AI/chat bot purposes
Members of the team enjoy a high level of autonomy while also working very collaboratively in-person and using Slack, Trello, and Hangouts.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Collaborative communication within the development team.
Members of the team enjoy a high level of autonomy while also working very collaboratively in-person and using Slack.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Team communication and collaboration
Bot 3 is setup for work environment. Sits in slack as my team's assistant... This is most real use case so far for me.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Hosting a team assistant bot that processes meeting notes, sends summaries, and answers questions for the organization.
Slack limits itself to specific workspaces of teams. If you want to communicate between organizations or teams, shared channels are hard to setup and manage.
at_923757 • AlternativeTo • Use case: communicating between organizations or teams
More than feature parity with Slack, it's better because of Streams and Topics.
at_910014 • AlternativeTo • Use case: team communication
according to slack messages I sent to the team to see if I was alone (I wasnt).
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: communicating with team to validate a performance issue
I have been able to hire as contractors without issue. No H1B - just plain old Slack, email and Forgejo.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: asynchronous communication for remote contractor work
I’ve worked at a couple of organizations that have LLM-driven knowledge bases with connectors for Slack, Notion, and all of their private GitHub repositories.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Integrated as a connector for an LLM-driven knowledge base
I can also use slack to receive messages. ... rather than the odd slack message here and there.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Receiving messages/notifications from a tool
This method of organization works pretty well and allows me to 1) get work done, 2) monitor comms.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: chat/team communication
Slack is great for asynchronous team meetings but if you're not checking in regularly, you might find yourself scrolling way up to figure out what people are discussing.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Asynchronous team meetings
we dabbled with Slack, but ended up using Teams because of our VS subscription.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Team communication (dabbled with)
Tools like JIRA, Github, Sentry, Salesforce, Hubspot, Zoom, Slack, Notion, Stripe, GSuite, ... and many more are so much better and cheaper than anything you'd build in house.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: General business tool (part of foundational stack)
Other integrations with Linear and Slack are also very handy to getting into this workflow.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Integration for workflow
a task is created by me from slack, and the ai starts a structured process to execute on the task
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Task creation and input into the AI engineering orchestrator
Discord, Slack etc. solve the pains of IRC but are walled gardens.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Team chat/communication
While Microsoft gets a big chunk of the market via bundling Teams, there's Slack and a slew of options on the market for enterprise chat and messaging.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Enterprise chat and messaging
I push tasks from Slack into Trello inbox as people chat me things... I dont have a great way to get things from slack into [Apple Reminders].
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: receiving tasks from people via chat
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