There’s an alternate reality where Slack never sold to Salesforce and is operating in full founder mode, aggressively embracing AI. I’d love to see what that product would look like. And what market cap they’d be trading at rn.

Some initial thoughts on Grok Bot: > Very nice overall. I like how much complexity they've removed (very little setup, no model selector, no visible thinking process, etc). > And yet, it *still* feels way too complex for a mass consumer application. Even as someone who's pretty AI-versed, it took me quite a while to figure out what to actually use the app for. Definitely lacks onboarding and/or pre-built workflows. > The AI has a surprising amount of agency. When I give it something, it really wants to go and *do* something. Reminds me of the old talkers vs. doers cliche: ChatGPT is great at doing research and coming up with fancy answers, while Grok Bot actually does something with the info you give it. > It feels very Roam Resarch-coded: I'm having a lot of fun setting up workflows and thinking about everything I could automate, but it's unclear if there are any real productivity gains here or if I'm just playing Lego. (Related @WillManidis quote: "The market for feeling productive is orders of magnitude larger than the market for being productive") > Bots with different skill sets as the form factor is an interesting take, but I'm not 100% convinced it's the ideal structure? I'm a still little confused by the distinction between bots and channels/projects. Would be curious what other form factors the team explored and why they landed here. > A surprising amount of my usage is triaging information across different applications: put this in Linear, add this to my calendar, put this on our shared to-do list, save this to Obsidian, etc. > Related: This is the first time Obsidian has really clicked for me. I don't really want to use Obsidian, but using it as a backend that my bots can read and write to is nice. > I'm missing a single entry point: I want to throw something at the app and have it figure out where it should go. Having to choose the right bot/channel first adds unnecessary friction. A lot of people seem to solve this with a "chief of staff" bot that routes things to other bots. Feels like this should just be purpose-built? > I want faster input options. Give me iOS home screen widgets for each bot and always accessible hotkeys so I can quickly prompt w/o app/context switching. > Voice dictation works okay-ish (probably fine 90% of the time) but it struggles with unusual concepts/names and falls apart in noisy environments, which is a huge downside for me. (ChatGPT is exceptionally good at this and it's the main reason I've never switched to another model).

> $100m ARR (and growing faster than ever) > 177% net revenue retention > 40,000 paying customers > enterprise is our fastest growing segment > new customers include salesforce, oscar, figma > team is still small (~160ppl) > we're just getting started: