OpenAI should build Slack

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Post by swyx » Sat, Feb 14, 2026, 7:50 AM UTC

Re: OpenAI should build Slack

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Post by henning » Sat, Feb 14, 2026, 9:03 PM UTC

They'll just do what Anthropic does: let it Ralph Wiggum a pile of broken shit, and then say "wewwwww, doing pwogwamming is vewwy hawd, UwU >_<" when it won't build and fails at basic use cases that would be easy to test automatically

Re: OpenAI should build Slack

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Post by neom » Sat, Feb 14, 2026, 9:03 PM UTC

They almost have, you could wrangle group projects + group chats together pretty easily and you'd be close-ish. The claude cowork experience backed by google drive with the openai group projects and group chat would, imo, be a really awesome way to work!

Re: OpenAI should build Slack

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Post by pwarner » Sat, Feb 14, 2026, 9:06 PM UTC

> Microsoft did, and Teams is by all reports a solid success.

Not sure if the author has used Teams.

But otherwise, I agree we need an actual good, adorable Slack clone. I thought Google might do this after not buying Slack, but I'm not hearing anything about their solution.

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Feb 14, 2026, 9:07 PM UTC

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Post by spprashant » Sat, Feb 14, 2026, 9:08 PM UTC

pwarner wrote: post #4

> Microsoft did, and Teams is by all reports a solid success. Not sure if the author has used Teams. But otherwise, I agree we need an actual good, adorable Slack clone. I thought Google might do this after not buying Slack, but I'm not hearing anything about their solution.

Its a solid success if you squint just at the adoption numbers they achieved by cross selling it.

Re: OpenAI should build Slack

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Post by Muromec » Sat, Feb 14, 2026, 9:12 PM UTC

pwarner wrote: post #4

> Microsoft did, and Teams is by all reports a solid success. Not sure if the author has used Teams. But otherwise, I agree we need an actual good, adorable Slack clone. I thought Google might do this after not buying Slack, but I'm not hearing anything about their solution.

I use teams at work and it's okay. Not the best, not the worst, but okay piece of software. At least I have both the calendar and the videocall things in one app and see when the call starts, so I don't accidentally ADHD myself into missing it.

Re: OpenAI should build Slack

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Post by MattGaiser » Sat, Feb 14, 2026, 9:13 PM UTC

pwarner wrote: post #4

> Microsoft did, and Teams is by all reports a solid success. Not sure if the author has used Teams. But otherwise, I agree we need an actual good, adorable Slack clone. I thought Google might do this after not buying Slack, but I'm not hearing anything about their solution.

Yeah, I would be curious if there is anyone out there paying for Teams. Teams wins as Teams is free with your other Office stuff.

Re: OpenAI should build Slack

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Post by CuriouslyC » Sat, Feb 14, 2026, 9:13 PM UTC

There are already a ton of slack alternatives. Slack connect is the main thing that is blocking a lot of people from moving off slack, otherwise chat is a commodity.

Re: OpenAI should build Slack

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Post by tootie » Sat, Feb 14, 2026, 9:14 PM UTC

pwarner wrote: post #4

> Microsoft did, and Teams is by all reports a solid success. Not sure if the author has used Teams. But otherwise, I agree we need an actual good, adorable Slack clone. I thought Google might do this after not buying Slack, but I'm not hearing anything about their solution.

I guess I'm in the minority but I haven't noticed a significant variance in quality and features on any chat app I've used in the past 20 years. It seems like a thoroughly solved problem. Slack's "killer feature" was that they really streamlined onboarding which is feels neat the first time you do it. Otherwise, chat is chat. The biggest obstacle has always been getting everyone you need to talk to to agree on which platform to use.