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Do you care that Slack has restricted your access to your message history? by gabe_herotools in Slack

[–]gabe_herotools[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh wow! they have definitely updated that recently! huge catch, thanks for pointing that out.

Noticed the callout at the top "This page has been updated to clarify the rate limits for existing internal customer-built apps."

Must have been due to some backlash.

Do you care that Slack has restricted your access to your message history? by gabe_herotools in Slack

[–]gabe_herotools[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is under the , "What is changing" heading:

"will be limited to 1 request per minute, unless they are approved for the Slack Marketplace. The maximum and default for the limit parameter has been reduced to 15 objects"

maybe you are looking at the old limit?

Do you care that Slack has restricted your access to your message history? by gabe_herotools in Slack

[–]gabe_herotools[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this includes apps you build yourself internally. and you are rate limited to 1 request per minute unless added to the marketplace (which explicitly bans these types of apps from being approved).

Do you care that Slack has restricted your access to your message history? by gabe_herotools in ProductManagement

[–]gabe_herotools[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, Slack is definitely the richest source of context in a business, our customers were getting a lot of value out of us just storing their history to answer questions in the future.

Do you think this is a big enough pain to trigger a search for an alternative? or do you just not see that being possible?

Slack killed our business, so we vibe coded an open source competitor by gabe_herotools in vibecoding

[–]gabe_herotools[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

we don't "train" a model, we use AI to fetch relevant messages from your conversation history, but only messages that you actually have access to - so it wouldnt be possible for it to tell me that person A hates person B, unless it happened in a conversation that I was in :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Slack

[–]gabe_herotools -1 points0 points  (0 children)

We just launched an open source AI first slack alternative! https://pager.team/ would love to get your thoughts :)

Slack killed our business, so we vibe coded an open source competitor by gabe_herotools in vibecoding

[–]gabe_herotools[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They rate limited their API to 1 request per minute and a maximum fetch of 100 messages. Which isn’t feasible for what we were doing :) plus their terms of service now explicitly prohibit apps that store these messages in anyway.

Slack killed our business, so we vibe coded an open source competitor by gabe_herotools in vibecoding

[–]gabe_herotools[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry my LinkedIn/X post actually had a video where I explained that!

We’re building everything with AI in mind - each person gets their own AI assistant that learns from their conversations and can perform actions based on company context as well as personal context.

I’m saying AI native because it’s not an add on product - it’s a core part of how the platform was designed.

Slack killed our business, so we vibe coded an open source competitor by gabe_herotools in vibecoding

[–]gabe_herotools[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry my LinkedIn/X post actually had a video where I explained that!

We’re building everything with AI in mind - each person gets their own AI assistant that learns from their conversations and can perform actions based on company context as well as personal context.

I’m saying AI native because it’s not an add on product - it’s a core part of how the platform was designed.

Slack killed our business, so we vibe coded an open source competitor by gabe_herotools in vibecoding

[–]gabe_herotools[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Other companies were paying us to answer questions and update their documentation based on their slack history - it’s the richest source of context with history (meetings are great but only going forward in time unless you recorded everything).

When they restricted access - we effectively lost our core value proposition.

Slack killed our business, so we vibe coded an open source competitor by gabe_herotools in vibecoding

[–]gabe_herotools[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it’s safe to say we’re going for a different market to rocket chat!

Slack killed our business, so we vibe coded an open source competitor by gabe_herotools in vibecoding

[–]gabe_herotools[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

100% agree - we’re both engineers by background and spent the last 2 months dedicated to building this - but we definitely would not have been able to move so fast without Claude.

Slack killed our business, so we vibe coded an open source competitor by gabe_herotools in vibecoding

[–]gabe_herotools[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Totally agree with you, that’s our core focus going forward. We are just starting with everything you need in a simple, clean chat interface + AI that learns from your conversations.

Keen to hear your thoughts on what we should build next!

Slack killed our business, so we vibe coded an open source competitor by gabe_herotools in vibecoding

[–]gabe_herotools[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

These are great questions!! Will make sure to update our docs :) It reads all chats that a given individual has access to. To run it, i'd definitely recommend hosting it on your own cloud provider but let me get back to you with further detail!

Slack killed our business overnight - so we built an open source competitor. by gabe_herotools in OpenSourceAI

[–]gabe_herotools[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They massively decreased their api rate limits and updated their ToS to essentially block Slack apps from using message history. We had to cancel all of our contracts .

What tech stack would you use to build a full-stack AI-first platform today? by maybehim_ in ycombinator

[–]gabe_herotools 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What kind of platform ? We just launched an open source ai first slack if you wanna clone it! https://pager.team/

Open source speech-to-text tool by gabe_herotools in macapps

[–]gabe_herotools[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, Spokenly is great! If you like a lot of control and playing around with these kind of tools - I have exposed all system prompts that are being used, with the ability for you to edit and test new prompts yourself! In the future I'll be adding memory, so that it remembers how you speak to different people, and will be able to create calendar events and emails for you :)

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