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Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by visakanv »

simonswords82 wrote: post #22

As a B2B SaaS app founder I dream of the day when our app generates this type of positive, organic coverage so effortlessly. It's no wonder Slack are growing at such a rate, they've built something that provides a serious amount of value to people.

There are a few things to unpackage here!

1. Whenever you catch yourself thinking that something uncommon is effortless, you're probably not seeing what's going on behind the scenes. Or at least– getting to the point when you've set the flywheel in motion (and people are trying to use your product or idea as a centerpiece for discussing something of their own) is non-trivial! But I'm sure you know this.

2. There are B2B SaaS apps that provide a serious amount of value that grow nicely, but still don't grow as quickly as Slack does– Slack is kind of an outlier in this regard.

3. There's a predictable news cycle that these things go through: https://medium.com/backchannel/how-the-tech-press-forces-a-n... Within this model, Slack is currently between 4 and 6 o' clock. This will change, inevitably.

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by balls187 »

My wife and I use slack. In the past ~6 months we: got engage, planned a wedding, a wedding reception (2 different dates), honeymoon to Australia, a baby, a new house, and renting out our townhome.

While slack is really a gussied up messaging platform, the extra polish they have on things like search, pins, and documents, made planning and executing on 3 of lifes major milestones significantly easier to manage.

So far we use only a couple of integrations: google calendar, and a custom build slash-command that pushes events to IFTTT's Google calendar event reciepe.

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by kingnight »

zrail wrote: post #26
kingnight wrote: post #18

What is this curl script that calls out to Find My iPhone... I'm surprised that the web api is trivial enough to script but would love to use it.

It's not really scriptable, but if you look at the network traffic you can "copy as curl" one of the URLs that pop up as you're playing with "Find My Friends" on icloud.com and paste it into a terminal. It will return a JSON blob with geo information of all of your friends. I don't know how long the cookie that "copy as curl" grabs lasts, but if it's long-lived I can absolutely see dropping it into a little script an…

Right on. I would have figured that iCloud would have one of those iterating cookies (I have no idea what it's really called) where each request iterates the request-data of each subsequent http call so a copy curl wouldn't work.

Very cool automation.

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by stevesearer »

jedberg wrote: post #23

Right now my wife and I just use Google calendar and iMessage, but I can see a time soon when my child can speak, read and type where it might be handy to have a group chat. Although reading this now I wonder if it would be handy to have this for my in-laws who all live in the area, since right now we all have to coordinate via email.

If you haven't already, shared photo albums on iOS are a really great way to share baby pics with family members without overwhelming your Instagram feeds or having to email all of the time.

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by opticalfiber »

veritas20 wrote: post #30

Seems like a great use of Slack. Unfortunately, my first and only experience with Slack has not been a fantasy. I joined a public slack on startups and everytime I check, I'm 100+ messages behind. Seems like a giant chat room. I'm missing the magic.

Well, yeah. That's not the intended use case for Slack. People do use it for public groups organized around a shared interest, but it is intended for teams or companies.

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by chrisseaton »

emergentcypher wrote: post #15
s9ix wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/36870/is-includi...

Put another way: all security is security through obscurity. Whether we're guessing URLs or brute-forcing passwords, logging HTTP traffic or keylogging someone's machine. I hardly see the difference. It's not easy to tell where "obscurity" ends and "security" begins.

One-time pads as long as the message aren't security through obscurity are they? There's no way to brute force them. No future maths or quantum computer could ever crack them.

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by andreasklinger »

pc86 wrote: post #9
fjallstrom wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hi. article author here. the feed url is very long, and parents can disable it entirely. so i guess it's fine.

> the feed url is very long What does this have to do with the security of the feed?

most likely tokens

given it's for feeds you have to (most likely) manually regenerate them

Re: How we use Slack in our family

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Post by jedberg »

rekoros wrote: post #29
jedberg wrote: post #23

Right now my wife and I just use Google calendar and iMessage, but I can see a time soon when my child can speak, read and type where it might be handy to have a group chat. Although reading this now I wonder if it would be handy to have this for my in-laws who all live in the area, since right now we all have to coordinate via email.

But how would you deal with losing history? 10K messages is not very many. I've been using gmail/gtalk for ~12 years -- I can quickly dig up (and regularly do) pretty much anything my parents and I ever talked about. I consider this to be the killer feature (vs, say, hotmail, where I had to keep deleting messages because of the 10MB limit, back in the day).

> But how would you deal with losing history? 10K messages is not very many.

That's a good point, although in practice I rarely have to search through our message history.

Also, since we're using iMessage, it's really hard to search anyway.

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