Hey Product Hunt peeps! Slack is great for building customer communities – especially if your community members already use work to communicate for work. The problem is that Slack isn't built for communities, and means there are a few disadvantages when building a community with Slack: 1️⃣ Messages aren't saved past 90 days on Slack's free plan – this means valuable community knowledge, support answers, and customer discussions are lost forever. Sure you could upgrade to a paid plan, but Slack's pricing is prohibitively expensive for large communities. 2️⃣ Slack conversations aren't public or discoverable by Google – your customers can't self-serve previously answered questions, or discover your community through the user-generated content created in your community. So we've built an integration with Slack to turn your Slack community into a discoverable site. With Hall, you can transform your community Slack conversations into a branded community site, fully searchable by customers and search engines. Just connect Slack, and start syncing your conversations. You can also manually push interesting conversations to your community site. Best of all, it's entirely free. Sign up today and connect your Slack workspace to Hall in just a few minutes.

Looking forward to getting lots of customer communities using this 💪

All the best for the launch @kaiforsyth

Could you explain how Hall handles privacy concerns for communities using Slack? Also, are there any plans for integrating with other platforms?

It's a good idea for sure. The fact that it's free is absolutely fantastic, but how will you sustain that and keep interest in it as an organization? So, presumably, we can use our own CNAME domain and brand and all? It's critical to understand the longevity of this. If people or organizations choose to use it and later you abandon it, this will affect not just the organizations but whole communities and, 'super importantly,' the knowledge acquired. What are your thoughts on this and what's your plan on backing up the knowledge? Overall, well done, and I wish you well. Give me a shout if you'd like to chat, as I've been researching community tech for many years :)

Another great launch, congrats @kaiforsyth @anubhav_ghosh!

Hey Kai, This is a fantastic solution for making Slack communities more accessible and valuable. The SEO optimization is a game-changer. How easy is it to set up and start syncing conversations?

Looks beautiful @kaiforsyth!

Slack is great for building customer communities. It is hoped that users can be stratified and screened to maintain the high-quality operation of the communtity

This could be great for community knowledge preservation. How does Hall handle private or sensitive information in Slack conversations? Congratulations on the launch, Kai! It's an innovative approach to making Slack communities more discoverable.

Congrats on the launch! I'm curious about the customization options available for the branded community site. Can users personalize the design and layout to align with their brand identity?

Great for community engagement and SEO. Best of luck with the launch!

Wow! Really interesting! Is it possible to transform some subjects to a voting a system for new features when you're a SaaS founder like me?

Finally, a way to turn Slack chats into a knowledgebase.

This is quite a cool novel idea! I think as long as folks joining the Slack community understand it's an open community and their content has a chance of being featured in a community site, this is a brilliant idea! Free SEO, turn your Slack into a support site generator, and you get to save your content. Congrats on the launch @kaiforsyth - this is what PH is all about!

Great for open-source communities!