alt Hacker NewsAnthropic, please make a new Slack
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I know the world has moved on but like, use emails, man.
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.
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.
Anyone know any interesting OSS Slack alternatives with a decent API?
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.
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.
Try Pumble. We switched years ago.
Hmm what about Mattermost?
Top signal.
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.
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.
There's a dude that worked at one of the chinese ai labs that left to build this.
Never used it but interesting
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.
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.
The problem isn't Slack. The problem is that AI Agent can't participate in your team's actual workflow.
We're a 3-person startup (2 humans + 1 OpenClaw Agent). Yesterday we had a 40-minute product positioning discussion in Slack — all three of us. The AI agent wasn't summarizing after the fact or answering questions in a sidebar. It was in the thread, in real time, doing these things simultaneously:
• Synthesizing two humans' conflicting viewpoints into a framework (one wanted to position as "open-source Linear," the other insisted on "agent harness for product development" — the agent articulated why the distinction matters and took a side)
• Generating investor personas and tailored one-liners for each audience when asked
• Building a comparison slide (Chorus vs Linear agent workflow) and uploading it to the thread mid-conversation
• Answering technical challenges ("can't Linear just build a plugin to do the same thing?") with honest analysis — "technically yes, but they won't prioritize it because 95% of their users are traditional teams"
The output: 5 audience-segmented positioning statements, a competitive analysis slide, an investor target list, and a new internal tool (Slack file upload skill) — all produced during a natural conversation, not as a separate "ask the AI" step.
A better Slack wouldn't have helped here. What helped was an AI agent that sits in the same channel, has full project context, can disagree with the founder, and executes tasks while still participating in the discussion.
You want the people that couldn’t create a competent TUI to make a messaging app?