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Slack is a chat application, one of a vast multitude. There's not all that much secret sauce to give away.

• azinman2 10y ago
  Their secret sauce seems to be in how they can convince so many people to use it despite similar products existing for decades. I really wish I knew the answer to this question, I admire it a lot.
  • ericclemmons 10y ago
    The UX is top notch. Not only is the UI polished, but big details like mentioning someone and an invite link appearing is awesome. Or force-pinging someone on DnD because of an emergency. Slack is seriously user-centric, all the way down to how they run their Twitter.
    • flukus 10y ago
      Have you used it on an under powered laptop? It's dog slow and gets exponentially worse the longer you have it open. Don't even thinking about scrolling back through the history.
    • azinman2 10y ago
      They didn't start with all that, but somehow amassed a lot of users anyway. I believe it's more about the personal networks of the original team, but that's just a guess.