Do we need an AI-native slack?
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We launched PromptQL on X/Twitter 2 weeks back and went viral as the first AI version of slack; and we just went live on Product Hunt! Yesterday Jack Dorsey announced his version, Buzz. And as someone following the space - I see a lot of people having strong opinions about this.
So what's yours? Is slack working for you as you do more and more of your work with AI? Where does it break? Do we even need a new era of collaboration tools?
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@rajoshi_ghosh Was there one daily annoyance that made you think this needed to exist?
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@rowan_elizabeth1 I think it's deep work - slack is built for communication, and not work. So there ends up being a lot of interruptions - pings, repeating ourselves, copy pasting etc, specially when the discussion is in slack and the work happens in our personal AI workspaces..
@rajoshi_ghosh Do you think most teams have simply accepted messy chats as normal?
@rajoshi_ghosh Did original vision stay the same after launch?
@rajoshi_ghosh What's the one thing people keep comparing to Slack?
@rajoshi_ghosh Have you noticed any workflow that becomes noticeably faster?
The framing I would gently question is communication tool versus work tool, because the deeper split is where the AI context lives. Right now each person's real thinking happens inside their own AI chat, and what reaches Slack is the cleaned up conclusion. The team loses the reasoning, not just the messages. So the thing that would make a tool actually AI native is not dropping a model into channels, it is making that per person context shared and portable. Otherwise you rebuild the same interruption loop with a fresh coat of paint: ping someone, wait, they paste the context back in by hand. The test I would hold it to is simple. Can I hand you the thread of how I got to an answer, not just the answer itself? If yes, that is genuinely new. If it is chat with a model bolted on, people drift back to their private workspaces within a week.
@rajoshi_ghosh How are you measuring whether users actually replace Slack instead of adding another tool?
I think the strongest part of your post was questioning where Slack actually breaks instead of simply criticizing it.That invites honest discussion. Which limitation do customers mention first during onboarding?