Slack

“You could have a room full of people with laptops open on Slack or on a Google Doc, and they can't work together because their supercomputers, which again, like, let's be clear here, like, these computers are more powerful than, like, all of the computers on t…”

“I believe we'll see more and more distributed teams, more remote workers. It's sort of this movement towards that direction. And I think more people will be willing to build teams like that because it's easier to work remotely with Slack and like various video…”

“We even have some mechanisms set up on Slack where if anyone that has over 10,000 followers tweets about a piece of our content, we get an alert. So that we can keep tabs on how many influencers in the space are engaging with and sharing.”

“Going from like a visit to a signup, like I think like a four to five percent conversion rate is pretty good. I think I like swap notes with Stuart at Slack cause we kind of had similar landing pages. I think I asked him, you know, what was your conversion rat…”

“Now, in a work environment I feel like email, the protocol is actually perfect because it's the only protocol that you can use to communicate with people outside your company. And so even if you have great tools like Slack that enable you to Slack in, to messa…”

“I log out of every app Slack front every weekend, and anytime I'm on PTO, I don't have any notifications, so I'm never distracted by, ah, by work.”

“So it was only content marketing. So I was doing an email product, and I was writing all these blog posts about is email dead, as Slack is saying, or like all kinds of things that I think people were curious to hear about, or what will email look like 20 years…”

“If you, like, one of the things I tell a lot of our teammates, if you see that, that's probably a really good signal that you should be, like, jumping on a video call at that point. Instead of wasting, or not wasting, but instead of spending, you know, 10 man …”

“And very early on, we set the expectation that Slack is not a tool you're expected to keep up with in Zapier. You are free to leave channels. In fact, we encourage it. Kevin Hale: That is fascinating. Mike Knoop: There's a feature in Slack where you can turn o…”

“Even though we're a hundred percent remote, there is still a lot of value for getting in person. and we don't like discount that. you get to build a lot of empathy. You get to build relationship with folks and it allows you to kind of be, assume best intent …”

“In Slack, if you tag somebody in a message, like, at tag them specifically, it's kind of the social norm to be, to acknowledge that within 24 hours. So we have some expectations like that, and the reason we have said 24 hours is because we have folks all acros…”

“We built a Slack bot that assigned a rotational dish duty, and it would just tell you in the morning, today's your dish duty day, and then we just, like, made it completely equitable.”

“So it took us Four years to get access to Slack, for example get permission to be able to use Slack, at least within our particular group.”

“When asking YC founders how they found their early users, some of the most common answers were LinkedIn, Reddit forums, Slack or Discord communities, and sometimes in-person events.”

“One common idea that a lot of YC companies are using is to create a Slack instance or a WhatsApp group for, with their customers.”

“We worked with Slack and Notion on, you know, how to make that product Better every day. And so we are doing prototyping and iterating and they are giving us feedback almost on a weekly basis.”

“I think this is actually a real hole in the market because that's not something I can go out and purchase today.”

“In the very beginning, what you're trying to sell is you try to find someone to actually use your product and like just understand what it is. So what we did here was that we wanted to put the issue tracking. We knew that that wasn't the, like, Long-term visio…”

“There are some products that you can adopt without selling and that like people just, you know, they have single player mode, you know, cursors, a great example. Slack's a great example. But there's some where you need to convince multiple people at the same t…”

“Like I think Slack locked down their API a little bit because they didn't want people just exfiltrating everything from Slack and then building agentic experiences on top of it.”

“A really common pattern is I ask claw to build something. It'll look in the code base. It'll see some engineer touch something in the git flame and then it'll message that engineer on Slack. Just like asking a clarifying question. And then once it gets the ans…”

“Because I think what people really want is in my opinion, is really a way of saying, okay, this is actually a virtual employee almost that has, you know, it's on Slack. It has an email. I can actually invite it to me. You can join a meeting, take notes. And yo…”

“We actually have Cloud maintaining itself now. And the way we do this is we have a Slack channel where we just had Cloud start a bunch of different routines to maintain its own code base. And we actually do this for the CLI, for the iOS app, for the Android ap…”

“And actually in this case, Quad also decided to live blog it. So what it did is it created a Slack channel internally, and it started just posting screenshots every few minutes of its progress.”