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Slack

Slack

Where work happens — messaging for teams

Slack is the dominant workplace messaging platform with channels, threads, integrations, and workflows. It replaced email for millions of teams but can become a notification nightmare.

Panel Reviews

The Builder

The Builder

Developer Perspective

Ship

Essential for dev teams. GitHub, CI, and alerting integrations make it the nervous system of any engineering org.

The Skeptic

The Skeptic

Reality Check

Ship

It's bloated and expensive at scale, but there's no real alternative that matches its ecosystem. Reluctant ship.

The Creator

The Creator

Content & Design

Ship

Canvas, clips, and huddles have made it more than just chat. Great for async creative collaboration.

Community Sentiment

Overall2,822 mentions
54% positive25% neutral21% negative
Hacker News587 mentions
48%26%26%

Slack is great until it becomes the new email — need serious discipline to avoid notification overload

Reddit812 mentions
56%23%21%

The Huddles feature finally makes spontaneous voice calls work — still wish it had async video

Twitter/X1147 mentions
54%25%21%

Can't imagine doing remote work without Slack but the pricing per seat adds up fast for larger teams

Product Hunt276 mentions
65%22%13%

The workflow builder is a hidden gem — we automated our entire onboarding process without code