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Building SlackStories of building Slack — the company, the product, the business, and the culture — told by two employees who were around for the entire journey.Building Slack Home About Sign in Subscribe Stories of building Slack — the company, the product, the business, and the culture — told by two employees who were around for the entire journey. Subscribe Email sent Latest May 24 Year 1 We launched Slack to the world on February 12th, 2014. Thirteen months after starting work, nine months after releasing our May 24, 2024 8 min read Apr 23 You asked: We don't sell saddles here From John O'Nolan (CEO of Ghost): How did Stewart's infamous "we don't sell Apr 23, 2024 3 min read Apr 04 Preparing for launch It was the fall of 2013. Barack Obama was President. Game of Thrones had finished its third season. The red Apr 4, 2024 9 min read Mar 29 You asked: Slack is kinda like IRC, no? When it came time to build Slack, we wanted to capture the best parts of IRC in the context of running a business, add all of those ancillary services as native features, and vastly expand the group of people with whom our product could be friends. Mar 29, 2024 3 min read Mar 04 You asked: How did you communicate when Slack was down? From the mailbag: I'd love to know how you collaborated/communicated internally when your own Slack client was Mar 4, 2024 1 min read Feb 29 Good enough to be tried by the general public (with appropriate disclaimers) By the summer of 2013, we knew we were on to something. The people we’d asked to try Slack Feb 29, 2024 7 min read Feb 26 You asked: Release Notes Our first topic request from the inbox, and it's a good one! [If you replied to the first Feb 26, 2024 3 min read Feb 22 "You're calling it Slack?" It kept coming up. Someone would be talking about the app and then shake their head at the name. Sometimes Feb 22, 2024 4 min read Feb 19 Building the Slack MVP As we got started committing ideas to code, we already knew the utilitarian aspects of Slack would work — our own Feb 19, 2024 8 min read Feb 14 Day 1 Eight of us sat around an old wooden table in Tiny Speck’s Vancouver office. Cardboard boxes and dead batteries Feb 14, 2024 9 min read Load more Building Slack © 2024 Sign up Powered by Ghostenen1728641701https://buildingslack.com

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