Hi Mary
Thanks for hunting Lurchr! I am Stefano from Founders, the Copenhagen-based startup studio where we created Lurchr.
For a long time we have had the problem of managing all the information shared in our Slack team. People share interesting links and content but the ephemeral nature of Slack makes them disappear in a moment.
You know the drill: a link is shared, then someone asks a question, someone else posts a gif, etc. It’s impossible to actually keep track of information that is not meant to be dealt with in the moment. The person sharing will never get attention on their link, the one (who is supposed to be) reading it will likely miss something that might have been important.
Lurchr works on both sides of this problem. For the person posting the link, it allows creating stickiness into something otherwise ephemeral. For the reader, it provides a place where finding everything that has been shared and consuming it on their own time.
Our hope is that saving and displaying links in a separate place will ultimately kill FOMO and allow people to regain focus at work.
On the tech side, once the bot is added it searches through public channels (you can exclude as many as you want) grabs all links, enriches it and shows them on your Lurchr team site. The interface is similar to feedly, where you can quickly see in which channels you have unread links and check out if they are interesting.
Just let us know if you have any question. Would love to hear your feedback! (you can read more about lurchr here https://medium.com/the-founders-...)
Definitely a better way to search shared links than default slack search experience. How do you decide which links to save among gifs, videos, articles, files?
@arunagrahri this is a very good question. Since the beginning the focus has been on "knowledge ". So, mostly articles, posts, news etc. docs would also fit there but they can be very noisy and we decided to filter them for now. We debated a lot about "websites" e.g. Sharing the site of a competitor or interesting other company. For now they are mostly included. What we definitely try to avoid (as far as possible) is e.g. links to a GitHub issue or other more temporary assets. Hope this answers.
@liveink yes, definitely one of the early frustration that got us started.
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This is a killer #Slack add-on, specially for Free users. I recently setup a Zapier flow to save links and starred messages ina Google Sheet. Cheers to Lurchr!
This seems to solve a niche problem, though it destroys a bit of that heroin-level FOMO built into the Slack UX, which feels more real time than async.
@rrhoover nice one. Avid pocket user here, still after lurchr. The main use case is really that "what have I missed" feeling you get when you are away or when you (finally) decide to turn off slack and really focus. We think "slack as a platform" opens way to hack it and bend it to different use cases. Keeping links is one of those.
@stefanozorzi@rrhoover Yeah, I really want this to become Pocket for Slack. I often DM myself for that purpose with useful links, but need a better way to consume them later on.
@johnrmeese at the moment, you can see all the links you post in slack under "shared". Not only the ones you send to yourself as a way to bookmark, but also those in all other channels. We haven't yet focused on the reading experience, not sure that's something we would like to venture. The main goal now is discoverability and relevance. Thanks for the input !
@stefanozorzi That's fair, I guess I'm more interested in the ability to tag or categorize links, no need for the Pocket-like features of in-app reading.
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