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Slackoff
Never return from vacation to Slack chaos again.
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Never return from vacation to Slack chaos again.
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Ever returned from vacation to 50+ Slack notifications with zero clue what's urgent? Slackoff solves this. When you're on leave, teammates mark messages High or Low priority. High = backup contact shown immediately. Low = logged for later. You return to a clean, organized summary (urgent first, noise grouped separately) instead of spending 2 hours sorting chaos. Self-hosted ($99 lifetime), your data never leaves your servers. Built by a designer who got tired of leave anxiety.
@mryeshwanth This is painfully relatable! 😅 Coming back from vacation and trying to reconstruct what was actually urgent vs. just looping you in is exhausting. I really like the idea of structured prioritization and the clean summary when you return. That alone feels like a huge mental relief.
Do you see any risk in people over-marking things as “High”? In my experience, almost everyone feels their request is urgent – but in the bigger context, it often isn’t. Are you thinking about any guardrails (limits, nudges, patterns over time) to prevent priority inflation?
Overall, this feels like a very real problem and a thoughtful way to approach it. Definitely gonna give it a try!
@tereza_hurtova Great question!
What I have so far:
When people are forced to choose, the psychology shifts. Turns out ~72% mark things as Low in initial validation when they actually have to click a button and think "is this really urgent?"
I observed two patterns:
1. The nudge effect - Just seeing "Is this High or Low priority?" makes people self-reflect. In early testing, people told me they felt slightly embarrassed marking routine questions as High when they had to consciously choose. That social friction is actually the feature.
2. The ignore pattern - When people casually drop FYI messages and ignore the priority prompt, the system auto-marks it Low after 4 hours. So laziness defaults to Low, not High.
Still Validating:
The learning loop - If someone consistently marks everything High, I'm exploring nudges:
- "You've marked 8/10 messages High this week. Are you sure this is urgent?"
The key insight: Priority inflation happens when there's NO system. When you add friction + social accountability, behavior changes.
This is exactly the kind of thoughtful feedback that helps me build a meaningful solution, would love to stay in touch as you try it and see how the priority system holds up in practice.
Really appreciate the thoughtful question! Let me know what you think after trying it 🙏
@mryeshwanth Thanks a lot for the detailed reply! I really appreciate you sharing the thinking and early data behind it.
The friction + social accountability angle makes a lot of sense. Just forcing a conscious choice can genuinely shift behavior. And the 72% stat is super interesting! I also love the default-to-Low logic when people ignore the prompt – that’s such a smart design call. Laziness defaulting to Low instead of High is brilliant!
From my experience, systems usually break because they assume perfect rational behavior. What you’re describing feels much more grounded in how people actually act. 🙂
I’ll definitely try it myself in practice! 🙂
@tereza_hurtova Thanks so much! Really appreciate you getting it. Exactly, I'm designing for how people actually behave, not how they "should" behave. That's where most systems break.
Would love to hear how the priority system holds up when you try it in practice. Your feedback will help shape what comes next!
Really helpful tool to keep track for notifications after long leave.
@aditya_pathak3 thank you for the support.
Really like the idea of eliminating a ton of noise and surfacing the important stuff first when you’re back from vacation. Very relatable problem. Big fan of code access, one-time pricing too. Looking forward to trying this.
Have you seen any interesting behavior changes with the High/Low prioritization?
@dharmendra_shaw Thanks! Really appreciate that. On behavior changes - the most interesting one is the "self-audit effect." People who mark something High tend to scroll up and check "wait, did I mark too many things High this week?" The system creates accountability without me enforcing anything. Would love to hear what patterns you notice when you try it!