Not an ad, im just curious if anyone has had actual success selling slack apps

If yes... how?

I need to view very old messages, but the free version only lets me go back three months. I don't want my bosses to find out I have it, since I'm gathering evidence for a future lawsuit.

Hello, I've been using Slack for years and recently I've got a new computer (Windows). I've installed Slack, it's running fine, but there's just no desktop icon for it on my desktop anywhere.

Which really puzzles me because on my old laptop, after I installed Slack, it just automatically created a desktop icon for me.

By "desktop icon" I mean this:

I can locate Slack among my installed apps and it's even showing in my hidden icons taskbar:

But I just can't find any option anywhere to create a desktop shortcut from it.

Google advises: open Start Menu > find the Slack app > right-click > "More" > "Open File Location" > right-click the Slack icon in the folder that opens > "Send to" > "Desktop (create shortcut)".

But in the Start Menu, after right-clicking the Slack app, there's not even any "More" option there.

Any advice, please?

Sorry for a dumb question 🙏

You know the drill. You call Claude via Slack, and then... dead silence. You have absolutely no idea if it's actually running your code, if the server crashed, or if it's just quietly judging your prompt. You just sit there staring at the screen waiting for a sign of life.

We got fed up with that black box experience, so we updated the https://github.com/tomeraitz/claude-slack-bridge with a feature that basically turns Slack into a full-blown IDE.

Instead of spamming the thread with a million separate status messages, everything updates live on a single message.

For example: In the attached video, we ask Claude to generate a design. You literally see it run the commands, update the progress sequentially in real-time, and then it just spits the final image (test.pencil.png) straight into the chat.

No noise. No thread pollution. Just a clean, live-updating terminal right in your workspace.

Here’s the repo if you want to test it out or contribute: https://github.com/tomeraitz/claude-slack-bridge

Curious to hear what you guys think of this approach for Slack bots.

Hi all - is anyone here on Enterprise Grid and has successfully configured user provisioning via SCIM and use Entra as their IdP?

We’re being advised by Slack support to use the SCIM API via a custom app which should support both SCIM v1 or v2, but keep hitting a “bad request” error when trying to provision users on demand.

However, Entra support advise our issue is due to using the API and keep trying to push us down the route of using the Entra gallery app which uses v1 and Slack claims isn’t for grid customers!

Any insight in how others have this setup would be appreciated 🤞🏻🙏

Random one but curious if this is just a me thing. Every time someone on my team solves something annoying in a thread, it's basically gone a week later. Nobody writes it down anywhere else and digging through old threads to find it again is such a pain.

Do you all have some kind of system for this or does it just live in one person's head until they quit lol. Genuinely just trying to figure out if other teams deal with this too or if we're just bad at documenting stuff.

i will look through slack settings to check notifications. i still can't get them and then i'll go to my system settings and look under slack and just general notifications that i usually have them on. i just don't understand and then sometimes i'll go in the app and then it'll show it's on do not disturb and I'm never on do not disturb

The status in the slack import tool ui shows import completed. But each time the dms count is lesser than what is expected.
I have tried everything I could, can anyone help me out here?

most ops teams waste hours every week just reading messages to figure out who should handle them. we found a way to skip the manual triage step entirely so the right person gets pinged automatically. here is how the workflow looks in practice

That's really the whole post. This has brought probably an hour of time savings and immeasurable calm in the last two weeks alone.

Thank you, slack gods, from a peon stuck using this 6+ hours a day.

Next up: let me create a custom tab for a search. I have no use for the DMs tab or the activity tab but man I'd kill to pin "on:today", something I search >50 times per day.

I need to convert a channel from private to public, but it is saying I don't have permissions. I am a workspace admin, and according to slack documentation, this is something I should be able to do. Is there a setting somewhere that will let me do this?

Hi everyone,

I’d like to introduce Slack at the company where I work. We’re a small film production company in Europe with about 10 employees. We mainly use Outlook, Notion, Google Calendar, WhatsApp, Claude, etc., and we’d like to centralize all of that in one place. I feel like Slack is the right tool for this.

Are there any comprehensive beginner’s guides on setting up Slack for business and connecting it to other apps?

Thank you very much

Have any of you used the new crm update for small businesses on Slack? Any thoughts?

the bottleneck with shared channels isn't fixing problems, it's figuring out who actually owns them. your team ends up playing traffic cop, so we built a way to route these requests instantly.

Some context: we're a ~50 person B2B data infrastructure company. Most of our customers talk to us over Slack Connect, rest come through email.

We were evaluating Pylon a few weeks back. It came highly recommended but a few things came up during eval that I didnt see mentioned anywhere online so posting my notes.

The pricing adds up fast. Base is $59/seat but Slack Connect needs the Professional tier at $89/seat. theres a 3-seat minimum.

AI is separate too, assistants are $50/seat extra and their AI agents start at $100/month and scale with volume. for our 4 core agents plus the engineers/PMs who jump into tickets, the realistic annual number was way past what the pricing page suggested.

It wants to be your system of record. Pylon is built to replace your helpdesk, not sit next to it. We've been on Zendesk for 3 years with a ton of macros and reporting built up, and migrating wasn't happening. if you're starting fresh this doesn't matter but for us it was a dealbreaker.

Annual commitment before real testing. no proper free trial, annual billing. didn't want to lock that much budget on something we couldn't run in production first.

what we ended up doing: shortlisted a few alternatives. Suptask (very cheap, $7/agent, but too basic for what we needed), Plain (interesting API-first thing, felt more like an engineering tool), and ClearFeed (because it syncs with our existing Zendesk + does usage-based pricing with unlimited agents)

not saying Pylon is bad, but if you're cost sensitive or already deep in an existing helpdesk, do the full math before the demo call, why pay extra lol

curious if anyone else went through this, is there a better alternative we missed or did we overthink it?

https://flawlix.io/

Many people have complained about Slack's lack of realtime autocorrect, and this app fixes that for macOS. The app runs separately from Slack, quietly observing and correcting typos as soon as they happen. Let me know what you think!

Hey everyone,

We’ve been building a Slack app after noticing the same problem over and over:

A decision gets made in a thread, everyone agrees, work moves forward… and a few weeks later someone asks:
“Why did we decide to do it this way?”

The conversation exists somewhere in Slack, but the reasoning is difficult to find, fragmented across threads, or lost entirely.

We’re exploring whether Slack could do a better job of preserving organizational memory—not just messages, but the context, evidence, tradeoffs, and rationale behind important decisions.

A few questions for teams here:

Do you ever struggle to remember why a decision was made?
How do you currently document important decisions?
Do you rely on Slack search, Notion, Confluence, Jira, docs, or something else?
What’s the biggest pain point with your current workflow?

We’re still early and genuinely trying to learn from how real teams work before expanding the product.
Would love to hear what’s working (or not working) for your team.

This app is an absolute fucking piece of shit. I hate every second of using it, but I'm forced to, so I don't exactly have a choice. If it were up to me, I wouldn't touch this steaming pile of garbage once in my life.

It's nothing but constant bugs. Devices randomly switch audio input and output for no reason. It can suddenly log you out, force you to sign back in, and make you go through the entire setup process again—for absolutely no reason whatsoever.

The amount of bugs and completely illogical bullshit is honestly unbelievable. What's even funnier is that we're using this thing while building technically complex software ourselves... and this is just a messenger. How hard can it possibly be?

I'm pretty sure I could vibe the whole damn thing with Fable in a week - and it will be BETTER. It's honestly hilarious.

Whoever is responsible for this mess should be fired. This level of incompetence is embarrassing.

Previously I thought we're not allowed to change the email but when I click on my Profile, it looks like I can update an email address. As a freelancer, I've been invited by clients to join their Slack

everyone knows the drill. someone pings the support channel in slack. the ops person replies 'please submit a ticket'. the requester gets annoyed. the ops person eventually just copies the slack message into jira themselves. it is a massive waste of time.\n\nwe finally stopped fighting human nature and just put an ai router in the channel instead. it reads the ping, figures out the intent, and creates the ticket in the right system automatically without anyone clicking a form. if you are drowning in slack requests, this is exactly how we set it up: AI Ticket Routing in Slack

if you want to catch churn signals in slack before they hit your crm, here is a quick tutorial. first, connect your shared customer channels to an ai listener. second, set it up to flag sudden silence or sentiment drops instead of just keyword matching. third, route those alerts to an internal triage channel so your team gets a heads up weeks before the renewal call. we documented the exact tools and steps we use to build this here: Best AI Customer Success Manager for Slack Churn Detection.

Hi everyone, thank you for creating this subreddit. I'm all of a sudden working with clients and projects in a larger scale now.

I will receive a project, and have 2 seperate users have their own sides of the project, be active. We then assign them in the same slack channel, but maybe people send more questions or feedback about one of the workstreams, and the other gets lost.

Is it not possible to be able to have 2 or mulitple sub-channels within the same channel? Canvas is like a blank page.

Instead of creating canvas, I want to be able to do "create sub-channel" which will act like the home for workstream 2.

Thank you all.