INDIVIDUAL

DESIGN PROJECT

-Slack
By:
Murshid KM
S5, CSE B
Roll no:12
Index
 What is Slack
 Slack History
 Simple Communications
 Smart Deep Search
 Integrations
 Secret sauce
 Competition
 Future of Slack
 User Quote
Communication/Collaboration Platform for the 21st Century
What is
Slack?
•Glorified web forum

•Features inspired by
social media

•Centralized

•“New”
way to
 Slack’s History

Stewart Butterfield
•Developed by Slack
Technologies

•Slack began as an internal

tool for Stewart
butterfield’s company Tiny
Speck during the
Simple
Communications
• Social Network Features for
Work:
• Named Channels
• @Mentions
• Direct Messages
• Activity Feed
• Web and native apps
Smart Deep
Search
•Gmail like
search
features

• Searches
chats and
files
Integrations
• premade Integrations (Version
control, social media,
file sharing, analytics, even Yo)

• Make your own:

Secret
Sauce
• Active Listening

• Bootstrapping
Larger Groups

• Infectious
Competition
• Imessage, Email, GroupMe,
IRC
• Yammer
• HipChat
• Facebook for Work
• Trello
• Google Hangouts, Docs
The Future of
Slack
•Continued
growth
• ~250k daily
active users
• 30k teams

•Acquired in 3
years

•Butterfield goes
back to making
games
• Game
User Quote:
• “Butterfield’s big a ha moment, he says, was realizing
that messaging was the only business platform that
could try st at the center of all other software systems.
This is true, he believes, because it’s the only
software that everyone in an organization needs to
use. By contrast, platforms like Salesforce, Zendesk,
and Github, for example, are highly useful (and
valuable), but are only applicable within the sales,
customer support, and development departments,
respectively. Because everyone must communicate, a
platform like Slack can be the hub that connects the
entire constellation of business services.”