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.
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.
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"HANG IN THERE WHILE I FETCH YOUR LINKS!"
2 days and I'm still waiting.
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Doesn't Slack already provides this functionality?
@vadivelk not at the moment. And honestly I don't think they should do it. As I wrote above, I think slack is perfect for one use case (rapid, ephemeral communication) and then as a platform for complementary products like lurchr
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Doesn't Slack already do this in the side menu? Filter All Files to Posts
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-...)
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