[HN Gopher] Anthropic, please make a new Slack
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       Anthropic, please make a new Slack
        
       Author : georgewfraser
       Score  : 131 points
       Date   : 2026-03-06 19:52 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | anonymouscaller wrote:
       | Slack is in no way a great program (source: use it daily for
       | work), but it seems to me that it works as intended, and
       | developers can already extend it with bots/AI agents. Plus,
       | Claude as an agent is already installable to Slack.
       | 
       | For compliance, my company already has a tool that scrapes all
       | slack messages, and archives them for a required amount of years.
       | I'm at a small company, so I assume large corporations have
       | already refined this process.
       | 
       | What problem does this solve?
        
         | georgewfraser wrote:
         | You can only access public channel data, you can't even access
         | that at scale, and Claude needs to be more natively integrated
         | in ways that Slack will never allow.
        
         | mgraczyk wrote:
         | Slack is $45/user/month
         | 
         | Soon you'll be able to write, host, and maintain a fully
         | customizable version for probably 20k/month
         | 
         | If you have a lot of employees this makes sense
        
           | ellg wrote:
           | If people wanted to do this theyd be self hosting xmpp
           | servers already. No one wants to write and maintain the code
           | and infra for things like this, you are grossly
           | underestimating the effort involved here.
        
             | ares623 wrote:
             | No no it makes sense. Hypothetical scenario: I, a high-
             | level employee at a company just convinced my boss (or did
             | we convince each other?) to spend $30k/year on Claude/Codex
             | enterprise licenses. So far, the productivity gains have
             | not been there and we're starting to sweat. So, I propose
             | to my boss to build an internal version of $SaaS and call
             | it a win. Galaxy brain.
             | 
             | Now some IC somewhere in the company who is at the end of
             | his rope and sees the company as a dead end, sees an
             | opportunity. Why not advocate for this project, get real
             | experience building something greenfield in a brand new
             | domain, strengthen their own resume, and finally have a way
             | out of their strut? It's not like they're gonna stick
             | around maintaining what they built.
        
             | abujazar wrote:
             | Most people using Slack, Teams etc. and especially those
             | making purchase decisions have no idea what XMPP is and
             | what it's capable of. Heck, even Facebook used to federate
             | XMPP until they decided to go proprietary. Not in the
             | interest of their users, but because it makes the most
             | money for its shareholders.
        
             | mgraczyk wrote:
             | No they wouldn't have Nobody will write this, AI will write
             | the entire thing. You don't need many people to maintain it
        
           | matharmin wrote:
           | What features are you using that the $18/user/month plan
           | doesn't cover?
        
             | mgraczyk wrote:
             | I don't pay for slack any more, I just picked the price of
             | their enterprise plan. Large users probably get big
             | discounts but it doesn't matter, the cutoff where this
             | makes sense financially is probably around 4000 employees
             | even at $10/seat
        
             | apublicfrog wrote:
             | The article mentions some sort of legal audit reasons that
             | the author is of the opinion that any reasonably sized
             | company needs. These features are apparently only on the
             | expensive plan.
        
         | mogili1 wrote:
         | Slack's API rate limits and design make it difficult to
         | replicate the data within Slack to a data store that can then
         | be used to provide context to AI agents.
         | 
         | You are forced to use their MCP and their realtime search APIs,
         | which don't work very well/not performant and may require
         | additional licensing.
        
       | andymadson wrote:
       | I had high hopes for Claude's interactive app integrations,
       | including Slack, but it leaves MUCH to be desired and doesn't
       | really solve for agentic access patterns.
        
       | dbt00 wrote:
       | "A slack that doesn't suck" doesn't exist, and whoever thinks
       | Anthropic of all people are going to build that has no idea how
       | this is going to work.
       | 
       | Slack has massive lock in due to cross-organization connections.
       | The only way you're going to get people off slack is to build a
       | 10x better mode for collaboration than river of shit chat, and
       | while such models probably exist, you also have to convince
       | people that they are better.
       | 
       | I wish whomever tries this the best of luck.
        
         | pedalpete wrote:
         | How google hasn't been able to do this with messenger is beyond
         | me.
         | 
         | The external partners on our slack are almost all logged in via
         | gmail or other google workspace. We are on google workspace as
         | well.
        
           | riwsky wrote:
           | _cries in google wave_
        
           | QuercusMax wrote:
           | Google decided to build a new chat app every two years
           | instead of keeping the good bits of the original chat app
           | they had and evolving it. It was endlessly frustrating to me
           | when I was at Google. Google's security team ended up banning
           | Slack access after several teams started expensing it.
           | 
           | It doesn't seem like building something that works well would
           | be that hard; we've had nearly 40 years to learn from IRC,
           | AIM, and others. Why can't I run my own chat client that does
           | what I want? Oh, because you gotta lock people in. Sucks.
        
         | andoando wrote:
         | There was a guy here plugging his slack alternative that was
         | heavily AI based and people here loved it. I don't remember the
         | name unfortunately
        
       | etchalon wrote:
       | Just use one of the many chat products that doesn't have the same
       | access limitations as Slack? Or, you know, Vibe code your own.
       | 
       | People are so weird.
        
         | petercooper wrote:
         | _Or, you know, Vibe code your own._
         | 
         | Right. If these tools are so good (and they are) there should
         | be numerous better-than-Slack apps by now that let you do
         | exactly what you want. It doesn't take Anthropic to make it.
         | (At our company, we cheated and edited 37signals' Campfire
         | instead because we got sick of Slack's ads pushed into our paid
         | instance.)
        
       | trjordan wrote:
       | A similar argument to OpenAI: https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-
       | why-openai-should-build-sl...
        
         | georgewfraser wrote:
         | Also true! The most important thing is that the NewSlacks
         | commit to interoperability. I think Anthropic has a special
         | opportunity to lead the way here, because they have a track
         | record of standing by their principles to an extraordinary
         | degree.
        
           | coder543 wrote:
           | Why on earth would Anthropic commit to interoperability?
           | 
           | That is the company that doesn't interoperate with the
           | standard LLM APIs that OpenAI developed, which everyone else
           | in the industry has adopted and uses. Whether OpenAI's APIs
           | are great or perfect or not, they _are_ the standard that the
           | industry has settled on.
           | 
           | That is the same company that refuses to add support for
           | AGENTS.md that everyone else in the industry uses, despite
           | over 3000 upvotes: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-
           | code/issues/6235
           | 
           | Anthropic's Claude Code is also one of the _only_ agentic
           | coding CLI tools that isn 't open source.
           | 
           | I'm not sure which principles you think Anthropic stands
           | by... but interoperability is not one of their strong suits,
           | from what I've seen.
        
         | hungryhobbit wrote:
         | Yeah, but now I wouldn't touch anything from that company with
         | a ten foot pole, even if they made the best Slack replacement
         | ever.
        
           | bigyabai wrote:
           | Considering their Palantir partnership, I'm not sure I'd
           | touch an Anthropic-designed slack either.
        
       | xemoka wrote:
       | This is just crazy. Lets ask the power company to build some
       | trains for us. They transport electricity, they _must_ know about
       | transporting people. They can power the lines themselves!
       | 
       | If this was so easy, teams wouldn't suck, matrix would be
       | everywhere, and discord would be replaced already by the furries
       | (as much as stoat is trying).
        
         | j45 wrote:
         | Claude Code could absolutely build a chat client in the hands
         | of someone who could also build the rest around it.
         | 
         | Slack itself originally ran on irc servers as the back end, and
         | I consider it a modern IRC implementation.
        
           | troupo wrote:
           | > Claude Code could absolutely build a chat client in the
           | hands of someone who could also build the rest around it.
           | 
           | So why can't Anthropic build a CLI client that doesn't flickr
           | and doesn't consume 68 GB to run a CLI wrapper on top of
           | their API?
           | https://x.com/jarredsumner/status/2026497606575398987
        
             | bdangubic wrote:
             | that is 1/8 of Slack so it'd be progress :)
        
               | troupo wrote:
               | Slack doesn't require nearly as much to run. _And_ Slack
               | has about two orders of magnitude more functionality
        
             | senko wrote:
             | That's still light years better than Slack.
             | 
             | The thing lags a few seconds _while typing a message_ on a
             | 20 core 128g ram machine. That 's with their desktop
             | (electron) app. Mercifully, the web app works better.
             | 
             | Still, CC blows it out of water. Slack is that bad.
        
             | brookst wrote:
             | Can't != not prioritizing
        
             | paradox460 wrote:
             | They are using react for that
             | 
             | Not even joking
        
           | bensyverson wrote:
           | Yeah, I have so much less patience for "this should exist"
           | posts. In 2026, you could argue that this blog post should
           | have come with a link to the repo.
        
             | monsieurbanana wrote:
             | I don't want everybody with an idea making a repo. It's
             | already hard enough to filter out the slop in github that
             | I'm reluctant about using anything built in the past year.
        
         | johnfn wrote:
         | Is it really so different than asking the search company back
         | in '01 to make a mail client, a browser, a maps app, ...?
        
           | furyofantares wrote:
           | Was anyone asking them to do that?
           | 
           | Many people now think they should be broken up.
        
           | rdtsc wrote:
           | I didn't ask them. Did you?
        
             | johnfn wrote:
             | I think everyone at the time was hoping that Google was
             | going to take on their pet project; my friends and I
             | certainly were. But I don't think that has to do with my
             | comment, which is around a more metaphorical use of the
             | word 'ask'.
        
           | xemoka wrote:
           | They didn't, no one asked google to do it. It was Paul
           | Buchheit's 20% project. Google saw a good thing, solved by
           | someone who knew what they were doing and where they wanted
           | it to go, and fostered it. Hell, it is what built AdWords and
           | ultimately made google the advertising behemoth it is today.
           | I don't think this is the same thing...
           | 
           | I see what you are saying though, a business can expand
           | beyond it's initial constraints, but I'm not sure that
           | chasing prospects like what is described in the OP is really
           | all that successful.
        
             | johnfn wrote:
             | Why does it seem like everyone is having trouble grasping
             | an analogy? GP was saying that as it doesn't make sense for
             | a power company to solve trains (because it is out of their
             | area of expertise) it doesn't make sense for Anthropic to
             | solve Slack (because it is out of their area of expertise).
             | My response is that a surprising number of things can fall
             | in the area of expertise of a technology company, and this
             | has been proven by Google in the past.
             | 
             | Getting hung up over the "asked" phrasing is irrelevant to
             | the discussion.
        
         | echelon wrote:
         | No. This is a CEO expressing righteous indignation about a
         | company that provides (seemingly) little value and has almost
         | no competition.
         | 
         | Slack won't open up their data moat to AI, which is shameful.
         | And Slack costs way too much. If there were any competitors,
         | the price would drop significantly. It's not like chat is a
         | hard problem. And Slack's app is an absolute bear.
        
           | troupo wrote:
           | > Slack won't open up their data moat to AI, which is
           | shameful.
           | 
           | Ah yes. It's shameful that Slack won't open data moat to AI.
           | You know, those millions of chats (including private data) by
           | people who didn't give consent to this
        
             | echelon wrote:
             | > You know, those millions of chats (including private
             | data) by people who didn't give consent to this
             | 
             | I'm pretty sure the company you work for owns your work
             | chat, and that what you say on company slack constitutes
             | business information.
             | 
             | There are a lot of things people don't consent to. Being
             | born. Breathing in the air molecules that come from other
             | people's bodies. Looking at ugly things. Hearing annoying
             | sounds. It'll be okay.
        
               | troupo wrote:
               | > I'm pretty sure the company you work for owns your work
               | chat, and that what you say on company slack constitutes
               | business information.
               | 
               | It does. And a lot of this information is highly
               | sensitive. Imagine my company's surprise if Slack would
               | not be shameful and would just open up its data moat to
               | AI.
               | 
               | > There are a lot of things people don't consent to.
               | Being born.
               | 
               | Demagoguery and non sequiturs are not arguments.
               | 
               | But I guess that's what passes for "arguments" for AI
               | maximalists.
        
               | recursive wrote:
               | > It'll be okay.
               | 
               | Could there ever exist anything that wouldn't be okay?
               | What's the difference between something that will be okay
               | and something that won't? I'm guessing the things that
               | will be okay are the things that might pose an obstacle
               | for AI "progress".
        
           | mbb70 wrote:
           | >> "almost no competition"
           | 
           | >> "costs way too much"
           | 
           | >> "It's not like chat is a hard problem"
           | 
           | Surely these statements can't all be true. Since Slack is
           | expensive and has little competition, I think chat is a
           | harder problem than you think.
        
           | nkrisc wrote:
           | You're saying it's an easy problem with an expensive solution
           | and yet there's no competition? Seems there must be more to
           | it because that makes little sense to me.
        
         | uxp100 wrote:
         | That's a funny analogy because some electric railway companies
         | owned power generation. The one in my town also sold
         | electricity to consumers for some time, though most of the
         | history I can find online focuses on the rail aspect, which
         | makes sense, as they started and ended in the rail business,
         | but at some point in the 1890s to 1930s appended "and light" to
         | their name.
        
           | xemoka wrote:
           | It is funny isn't it? I believe it was the opposite direction
           | mostly though, as you say, "railway... and light"; to solve
           | their own problems of powering their infrastructure to move
           | people, they got into power generation at a time when there
           | weren't as many players doing what they needed to run their
           | primary business. I'm not sure that power generation getting
           | into trains would be as effective. Nor do I think an LLM/AI
           | company getting into chat and discussions would be valuable.
           | It feels wrong. But hey, "happy" to move on to yet another
           | chat program in my life if it's better than what we got...
        
         | just-the-wrk wrote:
         | I think this person is asking the most effective entity they
         | can find. Anthropic's offerings are better than the
         | competition. CC and MCP came out of of their labs, and
         | everybody scrambled to copy or adopt them. Their models
         | consistently work better than the competition. Whenever a
         | feature seems inevitable, they release a subtly polished
         | version.
         | 
         | For years I struggled to answer "what company is Apple's
         | equivalent in software?" and I think it might be Anthropic.
        
         | cush wrote:
         | The title is the issue. They're just asking for group chats
         | with Claude
        
         | 1970-01-01 wrote:
         | It's not crazy, but it is much too soon. Think about GE going
         | from lightbulbs to radios to alarm clock radios.
        
         | paradox460 wrote:
         | General electric did produce locomotives for decades
        
         | ninjha wrote:
         | > matrix would be everywhere
         | 
         | now i know the bar is 1000 feet below the earth with teams but
         | matrix is still only maybe a foot or two above the surface
         | 
         | i really want to like it but every few months i try it and it's
         | clearly just not ready :(
        
       | godelski wrote:
       | Why ask Anthropic?
       | 
       | Why not build on something better like Matrix? Or Signal?[0] Or
       | even Keybase?
       | 
       | I really do agree we need to move away from Slack and Discord,
       | but I'm also very confused why the call to action is to
       | Anthropic. IMO we should really be pushing for open systems so
       | that nobody can take it from us. Otherwise we repeat the cycle
       | again and again. There's some good protocols to start on. I'd
       | also say this is a good reason to make sure that the things you
       | work on are hackable. It's how we combine different domains of
       | expertise.
       | 
       | [0] see the Molly project, you don't have to use Signal's servers
        
         | j45 wrote:
         | Has Matrix improved the ease of use for folks to use it
         | independently?
         | 
         | Mattermost, Rocketchat and others have first class packaging
         | for quick and easy roll out.
        
         | georgewfraser wrote:
         | Claude-in-Slack is a big enough feature to overcome the slack-
         | connect network effect. Openness is absolutely key! I wrote
         | this post because I hoped that if Anthropic is _already_
         | planning to do this I might be able to influence them to make
         | open-data part of the plan. But openness by itself isn 't a big
         | enough feature to get users.
        
         | a3w wrote:
         | They seem to not want a messenger, they want a multiuser-first
         | prompt.
        
         | KaiserPro wrote:
         | > something better like Matrix
         | 
         | matrix isn't fun.
         | 
         | The other thing that I would gently point out is that
         | anthropic's uptime is pretty atrocious
        
       | empath75 wrote:
       | If you want Anthropic to make a new slack, just ask Claude to
       | write it for you. It wrote me a trello clone in 15 minutes. Why
       | bother with a SaaS. You can build your own perfect chat system in
       | a weekend.
        
       | gamerson wrote:
       | From the article...
       | 
       | > Claude has a glaring limitation: it only does 1:1
       | conversations. In business, work happens in groups. Today, if I
       | want Claude's help with something that came up in a Slack thread,
       | I have to relay the context between Slack and Claude by copy-
       | pasting. This is absurd. I am not a sub-agent!
       | 
       | It seems to me that LLMs/Chatbots are engineered for one thing
       | above ground-level truth and that is attention. The more people
       | you bring into a shared context, the harder it seems it would
       | become to retain people's attention.
       | 
       | Here is my anecdotal evidence for this: when I chat with a
       | chatbot, I find its answers and line of thinking, relevant,
       | compelling, and worth engaging with. However, when people share
       | with me their "chatbot links" and I read their conversations with
       | it, I have "yet" to find one compelling or worth engaging with.
       | Maybe the newer models are good enough to retain the "attention"
       | of a large group, but I don't see this happening.
        
       | swyx wrote:
       | yes please! i made a similar plea to openai that was on hn
       | recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47012553
        
       | troupo wrote:
       | Anthropic? The company whose CLI wrapper for their own API was
       | consuming 68 GB RAM (yes, that's 68 _gigabytes_ )?
       | https://x.com/jarredsumner/status/2026497606575398987
       | 
       | You'll rue the day when they decide to release a Slack lookalike.
        
       | ninth_ant wrote:
       | Or just use Zulip?
        
       | sp1nningaway wrote:
       | What a strange thing to post on a corporate CEO blog - proof that
       | AI is making it too easy create things without asking why. How
       | does it serve Fivetran to post open letter about why Slack sucks?
       | This only happens if it's easy to write a couple bullet points
       | and have Claude fill in the rest... If an LLM wasn't used they
       | would have realized it wasn't worth a post during the process of
       | writing it.
        
         | toraway wrote:
         | It's a retread of another (also baffling) "Why OpenAI Should
         | Build Slack" post from a popular AI Substack.
         | 
         | Just more empty grist for the AI adjacent content mill. "Slack
         | sucks" doesn't let you draft off the current hype zeitgest, so
         | we get "content" like this.
         | 
         | https://www.latent.space/p/ainews-why-openai-should-build-sl...
        
       | htrp wrote:
       | So why can't we vibecode a new slack with claude?
        
         | edgarvaldes wrote:
         | It's a good test, no doubt. Many engineers are convinced that
         | SaaS is practically dead, since all companies can vibecode
         | their way to a lesser dependence on external (and paid!)
         | software.
        
       | overgard wrote:
       | Just vibe code it yourself! </s>
        
       | Haksak wrote:
       | Yes, let's Anthropic have all your salary negotiations, private
       | conversations, rebukes from managers and corporate secrets. That
       | is a great idea.
       | 
       | Perhaps that info can be fed into Maven, too, in case a domestic
       | dissenters need to be targeted.
        
       | crimsoneer wrote:
       | Use mattermost/zulip, and start contributing to the software you
       | need. This isn't hard. Software isn't bestowed from the ai
       | intelligence in the heavens, it's built by people.
        
       | paxys wrote:
       | Weird to see this kind of random Substack/X content on an
       | official company blog.
        
       | malchow wrote:
       | For those who may have forgotten, Mattermost is quite good these
       | days: https://mattermost.com/
        
       | ed_mercer wrote:
       | > Claude has a glaring limitation: it only does 1:1
       | conversations.
       | 
       | Openclaw fully supports team chat inside Slack and works with
       | Claude.
        
       | juanre wrote:
       | The answer to this is not to build another slack for humans to
       | chat somewhere else. Much better to enable the agents to do the
       | talking directly. Alice programmer can have one of her agents
       | convey the info that Bob marketing guy needs to one of his agents
       | directly. It will be much more efficient, given that it will be
       | the agent making the slides anyway.
        
       | btown wrote:
       | Something I've recently come to appreciate is that Claude, with
       | the context of your codebase and your ORM models and how they
       | connect to your frontend, given read-only access to production
       | databases (perhaps proxied to anonymize client data), and to be
       | able to drive production sites with Chrome MCP, can be a
       | _monster_ at answering operational questions.
       | 
       | Say you need to present a new statistic to a prospective partner,
       | or an enterprise client has an operational issue that needs to be
       | escalated. Sales/account management pings people, and pretty soon
       | there's a web of connections that range between email, ticketing
       | systems, Slack, and Claude Code sessions. Someone being brought
       | in needs to be brought up to speed on that entire web. It's a
       | highly focused conversation with human and AI participants, that
       | (because human counterparties need to weigh in) by definition
       | must happen in parallel with other work.
       | 
       | So many companies would benefit from a Hub that speaks agentic
       | workflows, and streams progress token by token, fluently.
       | 
       | Could Anthropic excel at building a backend for this? Absolutely.
       | 
       | Could they excel at building a frontend that takes the world by
       | storm the way Slack did, with its radical simplicity?
       | Unfortunately I'm not as confident here. Consider that their VS
       | Code plugin lags their terminal TUI so massively that it still is
       | impossible to rename sessions [0], much less use things like
       | remote-control functionality.
       | 
       | Show me that they can treat native-feeling multi-platform UI with
       | as much care as they do their agentic loops, and I'll show you a
       | company that could change every business forever.
       | 
       | [0] https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/24472
        
       | krashidov wrote:
       | We're building this at type.com. Ideally one day we want to build
       | the next gen protocol so that we're not searching for yet another
       | communications platform, but it's going to take a while for chat
       | to stabilize with all the generative UI and agentic stuff we're
       | building. We're even talking about open sourcing it.
       | 
       | With regards to the specific complaints about not owning your
       | data, we're building the product so that you own your data and
       | you can run your agents and read your messages however often you
       | want. Obviously when we build a platform and others build 3rd
       | party apps we will have to have some restrictions so it'll be a
       | steady balance in the future
        
       | glerk wrote:
       | I keep telling people left and right that SAAS is in serious
       | trouble. I'm not even talking about Anthropic spinning out their
       | own Slack (which they could easily do), but any company out there
       | putting 2-3 engineers on a Slack clone that they can use
       | internally at very little cost and open source.
        
       | purplerabbit wrote:
       | Anyone know any interesting OSS Slack alternatives with a decent
       | API?
        
       | ValentineC wrote:
       | Not exactly chat, but I thought Spectrum [1] was far better than
       | Discourse as a modern, "open" forum.
       | 
       | Then it got acquired by GitHub in 2018, presumably integrated
       | into the main product, and their separate offering disappeared
       | from the web (taking lots of valuable discussion with them).
       | 
       | [1] https://github.com/withspectrum/spectrum
        
       | b00ty4breakfast wrote:
       | yes, that's just what I want; The SlopDaddy supreme to make a
       | chat app that will be used by billion-dollar corporations for
       | often sensitive and mission-critical communications. What could
       | possibly go wrong?
        
         | moomoo11 wrote:
         | Why do you care so much? Do you have life changing equity or
         | are part of the founding team? Or are you just an employee
         | expense line item?
        
           | Ancalagon wrote:
           | why do you care so little? it only represents thousands of
           | peoples livelihoods.
        
       | asim wrote:
       | Does group AI chat not exist already? I thought this was a thing.
       | It makes sense as a product. Any examples?
        
       | oasisbob wrote:
       | > Slack's data access policy is basically "No."
       | 
       | For being a blog post about problems with Slack's policies, it's
       | odd that it has no details whatsoever on what the issues actually
       | are.
        
       | paxys wrote:
       | Slack has a very permissive data export policy, as long as you
       | are doing it for your own organization's data. What they don't
       | allow is blanket access for third party tools.
       | 
       | So there is nothing stopping you from taking all your company's
       | Slack data in real time and feeding it into any LLM or external
       | product you want.
        
       | sergiotapia wrote:
       | There's a dude that worked at one of the chinese ai labs that
       | left to build this.
       | 
       | https://slock.ai/#features
       | 
       | Never used it but interesting
        
       | daxfohl wrote:
       | Given how quickly AI seems to resort to manipulation and
       | blackmail if it doesn't get what it wants on the first attempt,
       | maybe this isn't such a great idea.
        
       | apublicfrog wrote:
       | > Today, if I want Claude's help with something that came up in a
       | Slack thread, I have to relay the context between Slack and
       | Claude by copy-pasting. This is absurd. I am not a sub-agent!
       | 
       | Am I out of touch here, or is this a crazy entitled view? 'My
       | close-to-free AI agent that can answer most things requires me to
       | copy/paste and contextualise my questions!'. This is incredible
       | compared to even a few years ago, and it's very fast and
       | accurate.
        
         | lukev wrote:
         | Also there are a ton of other ways to skin that cat... you
         | could vibe code a Slack plugin to make this work in like 15
         | minutes.
        
           | causal wrote:
           | Also these plugins already exist. How on Earth is this post
           | even getting upvoted right now what in the world is going on
           | here.
        
       | gigatexal wrote:
       | lol. This is rich coming from fivetran which extorts people for a
       | relatively straightforward service that's just annoying enough
       | (looking at you salesforce + QuickStart views) to be worth
       | buying.
       | 
       | But yeah slack could use some competition. Let's see it would
       | Make sense. It would make anthemic even more sticky in the
       | enterprise.
        
       | fathermarz wrote:
       | I actually vibe with this. I like the engineers and UX people at
       | Anthro. And Slack is actually the most insecure hot mess of an
       | enterprise app you can get.
        
       | agnishom wrote:
       | I agree with the author that Slack's network effects are not very
       | relevant. In most organizations, a team leader can just chose to
       | move everyone to a different platform. There is some worry about
       | migrating the chat history, though.
        
       | arjie wrote:
       | My wife and I use a shared Telegram chat to talk to our claw and
       | it seems pretty fine to be honest. It's useful to just see what
       | the other is getting done but it can be pretty noisy. Usually I'm
       | not that interested in the details of it. Telegram doesn't have a
       | threading notion, but Slack does, so it's particularly well-
       | suited to it. Integrating with Slack is much higher friction, but
       | now that I've thought about it, it's a pretty good idea. I guess
       | I went with Telegram because it's free but we already use Slack.
        
       | imarkphillips wrote:
       | Try Pumble. We switched years ago.
        
       | bool3max wrote:
       | You want the people that couldn't create a competent TUI to make
       | a messaging app?
        
       | durakot wrote:
       | Or you could use Istota (https://istota.xyz) with Nextcloud Talk
       | and get an already existing OSS Slack alternative with a capable
       | Claude Code wrapper, group chat support, and everything else?
        
       | ngrilly wrote:
       | The author mentions they already use and pay for Google
       | Workspace: Why not use Google Chat? It is now much better than it
       | used to be.
        
       | bionhoward wrote:
       | Anthropic is not trustworthy for this because they force every
       | Claude Code user to agree to a noncompete while also opting them
       | in to model training.
       | 
       | That means, by default, every Claude Code user is actively
       | getting royally screwed
        
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