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Latka: India SaaS using WhatsApp outgrows US SaaS using Slack
“So, like, what I will tell you is you are seeing incredibly fast-growing India companies that are building WhatsApp groups for their SaaS businesses, growing much faster than their U.S. Counterparts, trying to drive everyone into a Slack channel.”
Chaser can beat Trello's Slack app because it lacks stickiness
“What I think, though, is we can beat Trello in the app store, and that's because Yeah, I've used the Trello app. It isn't sticky. It doesn't, it's just pinging a channel whenever somebody you know, moves a card across the Trello board. It only really stayed on…”
Kumar: Owning a custom chat and task system for $800k is a no-brainer
“Owning a custom chat system with a task for 800 K, I think that is a brainer, no brainer for me personally.”
Yang: Yva.ai is probably only HR tool integrating collaboration sources
“We are the only company in the world, probably, at least I don't know anyone else, who connects system to collaboration sources like Microsoft Teams, Select, Jira, GitHub, and other collaboration circles.”
Sherry: Migrating Weekend Club from Slack to Circle would probably kill it
“If he tried to move to Circle, or if he tried to move to another tool, it would probably, the community would probably die, in my opinion.”
Slack prioritizes its portfolio company Disco on its app directory
“It's like, it's a disco, disco bot grow bot previously. So they were, they are in essentials. They are on the front page. We cannot, like, ask, we, I asked actually, it's like, to put karma next to them, but it was counterintuitive. They invested money in this…”
Slack Advised Gating Features Used Post-Day 30
“A lot of their guidance to us was just look for the features that people use On day 30 that they don't use in the first 30 days to you know, as one of your indicators for the construction of your paywall and how to introduce that to people.”
Moore: Slack and Zoom are ecosystem super nodes, not true platforms
“What we're seeing out in the market is that the big success stories, you look at companies like zoom companies like slack, you know, the latest IPO crop in SAS, I would argue that very few of them are like true platforms. What they really are is super nodes in…”
Sullivan: New market categories never have just a single winner
“Well, you know, in any space, particularly a new space, there's never just one winner. And there's always a way if you really work at it to differentiate and find a place where they're not as strong as they seem.”
Arcads uses AI agents to scrape, rewrite, and replicate competitor ads
“I have one that maybe I can show you, but it might be a bit too complex, but that basically will send me messages in Slack every single day when my competitors run new ads that are worth replicating. It will scrape the ads libraries and yeah, it will download …”
Moah: Boomerang invented the snooze button used across Gmail and Superhuman
“We invented the snooze button you now see in Gmail, Outlook, Superhuman, even Slack.”
Dimitro Okunyev positions Chanty as 10x cheaper than Slack, Zoom, and Trello
“You know, Lapsum for the Slack, Microsoft, Slack, Zoom, and Trello would be like 41 dollar, so we are almost 10 times cheaper.”
Fan: Slack Marketplace Algorithms Are Less Sophisticated Than Apple's
“Slack marketplace team is not huge, and the algorithms on how they rank certain applications are not that sophisticated in comparison to, like Apple Store or Google Store.”
Fan: Slack App Directory Provides Free Marketing for Bootstrapped Startups
“Slack is a perfect place to start your, like, first, I would say, bootstrap small business, because once you release something for Slack, you can get into the marketplace. And basically this is a free marketing tool for you, and this is how we got our first cl…”
Brown: Public Slack channels force thoughtful team communication
“We always default to collaborating async and public channels and Slack, and the fact that it is public actually forces people to be really thoughtful about how they communicate with each other.”
Remote explicitly discourages internal emails and private Slack channels
“We discourage emails and private Slack channels, and we encourage everyone to share their work publicly early and often.”
Disco's platform replaces complex integrations of Hopin, Slack, and curriculum tools
“It's actually quite complex for people to sort of piece together a hop in with a slack with a, you know, curriculum tool. And so we just make it super simple in one place.”
Blocking out entire calendars creates extra Slack communication overhead
“If you block out your whole calendar, You're probably creating even more work for yourself because now you've got like people pinging you on Slack and saying, Hey, there's no time on your calendar. Can I get a few minutes? You know, can you move this thing?”
G2 CEO: Slack has never paid G2 despite ranking number one
“You can be number one on our quadrants, or we call them grids. You can be number one in our ratings, and also our sort is just based on reviews, so if you're number one, like Slack has never paid us, to my chagrin, but they've always been number one rated on G…”
Mitchell: Yac deliberately prices its monthly subscription just below Slack
“We've even priced this thing specifically around, like, we assume you will have Slack, so we don't be more expensive than Slack. We're going to come right underneath it in terms of a monthly price.”
Sherry: Community builders must understand member habits before choosing platform tools
“People think about the tools first, and then the community second. And I'm trying to encourage people to not think about the tools first, because, I mean, we get the questions all the time. Anywhere you go, you say, what tools should I, you know, people are al…”
Rachitsky: Paying for content filters for helpful, high-quality community members
“If like you're the type of person that's paying for content, you're generally going to be helpful and kind and interesting. And so that creates a really cool community.”
Abel: Slack has never paid G2 despite ranking number one
“Like Slack has never paid us, to my chagrin, but they've always been number one rated on GQ, and we don't change that.”
Grzbowski: Unlimited design businesses require minimal upfront capital
“The thing is, this is a super easy to understand this is a super easy to set up type of market where it doesn't necessarily require a lot of straight up investment. You know, on your end, you can literally start a business like this with a website and a funnel…”
97% of Convo Usage Is Document Collaboration, Not Messaging
“Our use case really is three percent of us as users for messaging, so we frankly plan to integrate with products like Slack. 97% of our use case is people working on a document or a conversation in large groups”
Slack And Asana Sell Company Licenses Upfront Unlike Single-User SaaS Tools
“The advantage that like Asana and Slack has, or even like an intercom, you pay for your company straight up. You always buy a company license from the get-go, even if you self-served. Whereas with a product like Dropbox, you might just be using it on your own.…”
WhatsApp for desktop beats Slack because it is free and supports audio
“It does everything that Slack does, but for free. And it's got a small edge Over Slack, which is you can send audio notes to your people. That's huge.”
Kirschbaum Pivoted Sococo From Proprietary Stack to Third-Party Integrations
“So it was a completely proprietary platform. And now the shift has been since coming on board so that it is focused on Connecting to the other tools that people use and make them available inside Sokoko. For example, Slack.”
Robbins: Orion follows early Slack's consumer-to-enterprise growth playbook
“What we find is we're able to use consumer-like customer acquisition and then that surfaces really big enterprise companies. It's very similar to sort of what happened with Slack in the early days.”
Stevens-Smith: Hybrid office and remote cultures inevitably diverge without continuous intervention
“When you have a culture where some segment is in an office, some segment is distributed, some segment is in another office. You have to continually work to bring these cultures back together as they diverge over time, you know, because the culture for the remo…”
Slack Is for Collaboration; Dynamic Signal Is for Corporate Broadcasting
“Slack is more of a collaboration tool. It's a tool where people, employees come to communicate with each other and collaborate with each other. This is more a top-down communication tool. It allows companies to push content or news to employees, and it's reall…”
Collin: Slack is for internal synchronous chat, Front for external communication
“Slack is good for synchronous communication. So I want to tell you, ah, do you want to have lunch with me? Then Slack is great, but Front is better for asynchronous communication. And asynchronous means every communication that you're having externally, so not…”
Blab employees pay $10 to a swear jar for sending internal emails
“My company has a zero email policy, so if you email somebody in our company, you got to put 10 dollars in the swear jar.”
Ad-hoc Slack recognition channels break down beyond 100 employees
“You can do that for smaller for smaller teams, I'd say up to maybe a hundred people, but in larger organizations and that what we, that's what we target from say 100 to larger than 3005 thousand people. It's hard to get it going with such a Slack channel.”
Fan: Upsilon Charges $25,000 Minimum for Custom Slack App Development
“Everything depends on the complexity, but I would say that the entry amount should be somewhere near 25 thousand.”
Fan: Slack Offers No Competitor Download Analytics for App Developers
“Unfortunately, it's not possible. I think that this is the most popular question to the marketplace team, like, when you introduce your analytics, so developers can basically, like, work with it and improve their description or whatever to appear higher.”
NFL generates social videos using a custom Dataclay Slack bot
“So we built them a Slack chat bot where marketing folks could go in and chat with the bot and then content would be made on the Other side, right on a server that somebody at the NFL would QA and then it would go to their social channels. So it's basically hel…”
Offer early SaaS customers 12-month lock-ins during pricing tier increases
“Offer annual to lock in rates for 12 months. Basically what this means is, rather than go through all this complex stuff, and this person's on that, just allow people to lock in a rate for 12 months to keep that price they currently have for 12 months, and the…”
Cook: 95% of Tettra's top 100 customers use Slack
“95% of our top, top 100 MRR customers use Slack.”
Abel: Slack ranked number one on G2 without paying a penny
“Like Slack has been number one on G-II for many years. They've never paid us a penny, to my frustration.”
Sherry: Lenny Rachitsky's Slack is one of the best-managed online communities
“Lenny Slack is, is a great one. It's probably, you know, one of the best managed, in my opinion, that I've been on.”
Rachitsky models his paid newsletter as a $15-a-month Lenny Prime bundle
“Someone on Twitter put it really well that I'm trying to create an Eleni Prime. You pay 15 bucks a month and you get all these incredible resources, a Slack community, the deals thing. I'm working on a curated guide and resources of just like the best Reads on…”
Reich: Troops AI counts WeWork, Slack, Square, and Flexport as customers
“Some of our customers include guys like WeWork, Looker, Slack, Envision, Flexport, Square.”
Reich: Troops AI was likely Slack's first-ever Series A investment
“Slack is actually one of our investors. I think we're the first series A investment they ever made.”
Ottino: Doodle acquired Israeli smart scheduling bot Meekan
“So we bought two years ago, an Israeli startup that does that does a smart scheduling bot in Slack called Mekon”