Anyone else trying Den to replace Slack + Notion? Curious how others are using it
Since seeing Den's #1-of-the-week launch, I've been playing around with it. I'm not quite at the conviction yet to rip out Slack and Notion. That would take a lot, especially given how much history and data we have, as well as workflow practices around it. But I'm finding it really intriguing so far. Here are my initial thoughts:

1) The merging of Slack channels and Notion spaces feels very natural.
#General should also be the top-level directory of docs. We have two ways we use Slack. One is for teams and sub-teams. These are persistent Slack channels, and the other is for projects. These are temporary channels, often for a few weeks or a few months. I wonder if it will feel natural for documents to be in the same organization, or if it's actually important that channels be more ephemeral than the equivalent document structure.
2) I like agents/workflow automations as a first class citizen.
It's hard for me to imagine how this works at scale, so I guess we'll just have to try it out. But it does make a lot of sense to me that agents or workflow automations should be a first-class citizen rather than an integration as in the Slack model.
Note: They have a Product Hunt workflow you should check out!
3) It's incredibly cool that I could ask Den to build the workspace for me, so I didn't have to spend a lot of effort to get an initial structure off the ground. This capability is what made me really feel Den was an AI-first comms platform.
I'm curious if they're going to add fast voice input and Granola-style meeting notes (like Notion recently introduced). I could totally see both of those being a distraction. On the other hand, both of those would help generate a lot of really sticky content for the platform.
All in all, I'm intrigued and will keep playing with it. I love that somebody is taking on Slack and Notion. I think there's a ton of room to innovate here.


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