Do you use Slack?

#2 Desktop Product Product of the Year

What is Slack?

Slack is an application that helps teams communicate and work together by combining messaging, file sharing, and app integrations in one place. It makes it easy for teams to stay connected and work efficiently, whether they are in the office or working remotely.

Team collaboration software

Messaging apps

Maker shoutouts

Quartr

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A financial research and investor relations platform

475 upvotes

3d ago

Simply put, all our internal communication goes through Slack. It's good as a standalone product, it's great with integrations.

Central (YC S24)

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Payroll, benefits & government bullsh*t for startups

710 upvotes

5d ago

Slack makes it easy to collaborate with customers via shared channels, keeping communication clear and organized.

Sutra

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Create conversational courses that actually get completed

958 upvotes

7d ago

Slack helps keep out whole team on the same page about what's important.

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Recent launches

Slack AI

Slack AI works where you do. It can summarize conversations and tap into your company’s collective knowledge to help you work in a smarter, simpler way.

24d ago

Slack Canvas

Get ready for Slack canvas, a new surface in your digital HQ, where teams can curate, organise and share mission-critical resources. Paired with the Slack platform, anyone can customise a canvas with time-saving automations that move work forward.

2yr ago

37 more launches

Questions about Slack

Frequently asked questions

Is Slack Secure?

By default, Slack encrypts data at rest and data in transit for all of our customers.

We further protect your data with tools like Slack Enterprise Key Management (Slack EKM), audit logs, and integrations with top data loss prevention (DLP) providers.

More information can be found here.

Whats so great about Slack?

Slack's meteoric rise in popularity can be attributed to two major factors: It does it's job exceptionally well, and people enjoy using the app itself. From a functionality standpoint, Slack's strengths are that it:

Facilitates communication in the workplace
Helps teams communicate collaborate across remote distances
Enables and encourages the sharing of documents, images and other assets across teams

From a design standpoint, Slack is popular because it appeals to all demographics with its visually appealing design, smooth API's and workflows, and it's contemporary and tech-friendly.

What is Slack?

Slack is a messaging app for business.

Used by 10 million daily active users from more than 600,000 organizations, located in more than 150 countries, Slack (or “Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge“) offers multiple instant messaging options to keep teams in communication.