SaaS Metrics
Companies in every industry around the world grow their business in Slack because it gets busywork off their plates and wasteful meetings off their calendars.
Slack brings everyone from coworkers, customers, and contractors into one secure place, so you don’t have to chase approvals or wait around on emails. Slack even has AI that can search to find the information you need instantly and summarize conversations to catch you up with a click.
Better yet, Slack makes it easy for anyone on your team to automate the small stuff, giving everyone more time to focus on the big picture. AKA, growing your business.
COLLABORATE QUICKER. Work alongside teammates and external partners securely in Slack.
• Connect with everyone: Invite vendors, customers, and contractors to work with you and your coworkers — all in one place.
• Video chat face-to-face, from anywhere: Meet with teammates instantly through video conferencing, and discuss work live with screen sharing.
• Crystal-clear communication: Use voice notes when text alone doesn’t cut it, ensuring complicated messages are better understood.
• Stay organized: Keep project, customer, and product conversations in dedicated channels and documents.
ACCESS YOUR KNOWLEDGE. Slack is where you can find every file, message, and decision.
• Find anything, instantly: Our intelligent, AI-powered search understands context and saves you from digging around to find the answers you need to do your job.**
• Collaborate on deliverables: Co-create marketing plans, product specs, and more in shared documents that live right next to your team’s conversations.
• Streamline project execution: Track tasks, owners, and priorities with project management tools and lists that connect seamlessly to the rest of your work.*
• Create consistent processes: Make sure every new project is set up to succeed with Slack-generated or custom-created* templates.
• Capture meeting notes automatically: Let AI transcribe and summarize meeting notes for you in Slack, so you can focus on the conversation.**
PERFECT EVERY PROCESS. Let Slack automations do your busywork for you.
• Centralize your work: Connect to 2,600+ apps and focus just on Slack, including Google Drive, Dropbox, Asana, Zapier, Figma, Zendesk, and more.
• Manage routine tasks: Approve PTO requests, manage your calendar, or update file permissions — all in one place (talk about convenient).
• Stay on top of your to-dos: Manage your to-do list from your notepad to where you’re getting the rest of your work done.
• Bring the power of Agentforce to your team: Access AI agents to respond to HR tickets, set team reminders, resolve IT issues, and much more.***
*Requires an upgrade to Slack Pro, Business+, or Enterprise.
**Requires Slack AI add-on
***Requires Agentforce license from Salesforce
Product Positioning & Context
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Deep-Dive FAQs
What is Slack?
Slack is a digital product or tool described as: Slack Technologies, Inc.
Where did Slack originate?
Data for Slack was aggregated directly from the Apple App Store community ecosystem, representing raw developer and early-adopter sentiment.
When was Slack publicly launched?
The initial public indexing or launch date for Slack within our tracked developer communities was recorded on March 20, 2013.
How popular is Slack?
Slack has achieved measurable traction, logging over 43,361 reviews and facilitating 4 recorded discussions or engagements.
Which technical categories define Slack?
Based on metadata extraction, Slack is categorized under topics such as: Business, Productivity.
Is Slack recognized by media or academic researchers?
Yes. It has been covered by media outlets like Windows Central. This indicates the concept has reached a level of mainstream or scientific viability beyond just developer forums.
What are some commercial alternatives to Slack?
Our semantic intelligence engine identifies potential commercial alternatives in the SaaS space, such as Alkemi, which offers overlapping value propositions.
How does the creator describe Slack?
The original author or development team describes the product as follows: "Companies in every industry around the world grow their business in Slack because it gets busywork off their plates and wasteful meetings off their calendars.
Slack brings everyone from coworkers,..."
Community Voice & Feedback
It’s a great biz app
It’s sad that slack will not be supporting older versions of iOS. I have and old iPad iOS 15.8.7.
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Been trying to figure this out for a long time. I have to log in and check for new messages — the app will not reliably send me notifications. I have tried updating, making sure my phone allows notifications, making sure my phone isn’t on silent mode or ‘do not disturb’ etc, I still miss notifications of important messages. It drives me crazy. If I knew of another platform that has the organization of Slack but was reliable with notifications I would switch over with no hesitation. It causes me delays and problems.
The ui needs improvement, try to make messages like whatsapp and telegram …. In the channel for the project make the tabs near others and overflow-x-auto if there is many tabs to make it easier to move between tabs
And make pressed tabs saved in localStorage so when i go to chats and back to tasks, i find my tab
And sort messages by last updated so i found people that i recently contacted first
And make pressed tabs saved in localStorage so when i go to chats and back to tasks, i find my tab
And sort messages by last updated so i found people that i recently contacted first
I love this app and used it for years but as someone who changes their profile picture every day, I use gifs or animate profiles but can’t
Slack is amazing for team collaboration and getting things done
I used this for a group project rather than for a company that works 9am - 5pm, meaning lots of early mornings, late nights, and weekends when my team needed to reach each other. MULTIPLE times a week, seemingly at random, slack would reset itself to only giving notifications 9am to 5pm during the work week, leading to COUNTLESS times that someone on the team didn’t get important notifications or became unreachable because their slack had turned off. Made our team coordination much worse overall.
The way the replies are handled is too messy and confusing. Code snippets can’t be customized to a specific coding language. Searching for gifs is an endless random shuffle until you find the one you want. No option to add a picture to a group or channel.
Cannot prioritize and lose messages once opened
I’m not getting notified in my regular email client when new messages are posted in conversation groups I’m in. I have to go to Slack to discover them. Also when I have gone back to see an attached graphic posted by someone, on my feed it said “file deleted” while on hers it was still showing. This is too confusing and not worth the effort to track oddities down.
Great advice
It’s fine a messaging app but there’s literally just too much going on in it and is kinda ugly
The initial setup was a little tricky, but after that, it’s been a great way to interface with Openclaw.
My current organization uses this as our primary source of communication and I love it. Much better than what we were using before.
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Discovery Source
Apple App Store Aggregated via automated community intelligence tracking.
Tech Stack Dependencies
No direct open-source NPM package mentions detected in the product documentation.
Media Tractions & Mentions
- Microsoft blames Slack's lackluster growth on "inferior capabilities" while Salesforce's antitrust lawsuit targets Teams bundles
- Show HN: A Karpathy-style LLM wiki your agents maintain (Markdown and Git)
- OpenAI: Workspace Agents for Business
- Workday, Rippling, and Slack flunk data access test, claims Fivetran
Deep Research & Science
No direct peer-reviewed scientific literature matched with this product's architecture.