Sometimes we would even hold meetings to prepare for other meetings.
And when we weren't "Slacking," we were meeting. Nonstop jumping from one conversation to another. It felt like we were all switchboard operators constantly managing several conversations and pings all at once. When COVID hit, we suddenly grew from 17 to 45 people overnight, and our use of Slack increased exponentially. It was affecting me and the whole company, but it never dawned on me that there could be something better or that giving up Slack was even an option. Constant pinging, people launching channels to talk about non-work related stuff, a sense of urgency all the time, and a feeling of guilt and anxiety every time I wanted to ignore a message for a little while. It was like we were suddenly all in the same room together, and I really enjoyed feeling so close to everyone.īy 2018 we were 17 people, and in my mind I still assumed Slack was an essential part of our business, even though there were things that were starting to bug me about it. It helped our small team better communicate with each other across five cities and four time zones. I adopted it immediately, and thought it was amazing.
By 2014, we were still only a team of about 5 people (all remote) when I came across Slack. But in those days, I was still just a one-person company and I didn't yet see the need for project management software or communication tools for my little business. It felt like they wrote in their own voice. And their marketing didn't feel like bullshit. I loved how different they seemed in respect to their personality and the way they marketed themselves. It was much harder to launch a business back then because the SaaS tools of today just didn't exist, and often you had to build everything yourself.Īlong the way, we started seeing solution companies come on the scene, and I recall first learning about Basecamp back in 2004/05. There was no Stripe, no Notion, no Customer.io, no Zendesk (I prefer HelpScout by the way) no Basecamp, and no Slack. And in those days it was really hard to find tools to set up and run your online business. That was before Netflix was streaming, before Twitter existed, before Spotify was invented, and three years before YouTube posted its first video. I launched Ellii as a subscription-based recurring billing content platform for English teachers back in 2002. In a Nuxt3 app, as seen in the doc, we created a file named "errorHandler.I've owned and run this company for 20+ years. We have connected Slack with PM2, and now we want to be able to have the original error 500 messages of an app sent to our dedicated pm2 channel.
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