Hey Product Hunters! I would like to intro Slakster.
It allows you to easily collect all the email addresses of the users in your Slack groups.
Slack already shows email addresses within each user’s profile, Slakster simply extracts them into a CSV file for you to download via a Chrome extension. A simple tool to save time.
It’s the responsibility of the Slack group admin to protect the email addresses of their group, and it is up to the user to abide by their associated Slack group guidelines. Slakster is not created by, affiliated with, or supported by Slack Technologies, Inc. Please use Slakster responsibly. With that being said….
It took us some back and forth before deciding to post Slakster due to it’s controversial use. I even asked a friend to post it for us since their PH profile was far more developed than mine and they told me they decided not to because of the possible effect that it could have on their reputation. I completely understand this, however, once you have a decision like this to make it wears on you. Ultimately we decided to let it post.
Why?
1. We would always be curious what would have happened if we didn’t post it. We know some people will despise us and others praise us...controversy is interesting and a part of doing something different.
2. There are many prospecting tools for discovering emails by extracting them from hidden sources (Ex. LinkedIn), but Slack already displays your email, so if you wanted someone’s email you already could get it anyways.
3. Because, Slack has ignored the request to hide users email addresses since 2014. https://twitter.com/ZacCoffman/s...
With all that being said, I present you with Slakster.
@trevorhatfield Utterly disgusting what you're doing here. As an admin of a large public Slack community that has had to deal with people spamming our members, I'm appalled at the product you're creating and how easy this makes it to damage public Slack communities even further. You're attempting to make a quick buck, by adding to the problem, and should be ashamed of yourself.
Your justification that it's the responsibility of the Slack community to protect email addresses is hollow. Slack makes it pretty easy to create a popular, public community, but there's no way to hide emails of members, and creating a solution that uses email address proxies e.g., simply isn't practical or easily done.
Please don't be jerks.
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@trevorhatfield This looks to be a tool that without a doubt will hurt public Slack communities. Similar to Joost, I'd ask you to reconsider being jerks.
@trevorhatfield What @joostschuur said.
People who develop tools like this are the lowest of the low, as far as I'm concerned.
The fact that your team has then used it to harvest e-mails from MakerHunt (an exclusive Slack community for ProductHunt makers) and send us spam, is vile, a spit in the face to the entire ProductHunt community.
@iamelliot Better see who is in your group, use with Adroll for display ads, create Facebook custom audience...there are other use cases, but you are generally right, same as all the other tools that gather email addresses
Wow, you can't really get much more targeted (and annoying) than scraping all of the email addresses in the WordPress slack group for a business who has WordPress users as one of their primary customers. I guess this tool points out a pretty gaping hole for Slack. Curious to see how this plays out!
@levelsio It looks like this tool places responsibility in the hands of the user. However, since it doesn't send mass emails out after collecting them, in itself it is not a spam tool. You could use a hammer to put a hole in the wall, but that's not why it was actually invented.
Just looked at this. As a tool it's cool - although it would take any developer 5 minutes to write a quick snippet which would scrape the team page. As I see all the emails are outputted here:
yoururl.slack.com/team/
Very spammy though, does look like Slack need to do something about this.
@td_evans Sure this could be said about many products, but its all about if the time and cost to create something outways the cost to have it immediately in a usable form. For some people it might be workth it for others it definitely wouldn't.
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It's shit like this that makes me happy to have moved to wildcard matching for email domains. Now I can tell who exposed/sold my details.
Our Berlin Slack group started to get spam from @trevorhatfield & his team promoting this tool to members. REALLY NOT COOL! @bentossell@rrhoover@joostschuur Did members of the London one got spammed too?
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