Dispatch — Priority inbox for Slack

Hello hunters! @cathy_chen, @danielde, and I are super excited to share that as of today Dispatch is out of private beta. This means anyone can sign up and start using Dispatch as their priority inbox for Slack! How we got here: We started building Dispatch after experiencing the "always on" chaotic culture of modern work at our last jobs. We were constantly juggling messages, to-dos, and tickets. We wanted to focus on our top priorities without risking things slipping through the cracks. In a flood of messages, we struggled to answer the question: "What's the most important thing that I need to see right now?" And so we built Dispatch. How it works: • Treat conversations as to-dos. Archive them when you're done to achieve inbox zero. • Noisy conversations? Mute them so you can get back in the zone. • Blocked on something? Snooze a conversation until you’re ready to take action on it. • Prioritize messages based on sender, channel, keywords, and more… so that you can focus on your highest priorities. What you can expect: ✔ Stop missing messages ✔ Focus on your top priorities ✔ Get more done in less time Promo We’re offering the PH community 10% off (forever!). Use promo code PH230216 at checkout. Thanks! Thank you to all our early users and PH community for your feedback after our last launch. We've since been working hard on improving Dispatch. We couldn’t have gotten here without y’all. ❤️ That said, we're still in the early days, and have much yet to learn. So if you live in Slack, we’d love to hear about your challenges, and how Dispatch could help. 👉 Give it a try here 👈 – macOS only – Windows coming soon!

Congrats on the launch! It sounds like Dispatch is an innovative way to help prioritize your work. I'm curious, what are some of the biggest challenges that people face when trying to manage their inboxes? How does Dispatch help alleviate those challenges?

Interesting idea, I've been using something kinda similar - called Compose, and it grabs emails and slack. Do you have any plans to integrate emails?

Hey there! Congratulations on the recent launch of Dispatch on Product Hunt! 🎉 Looks similar to Chat Folders in Telegram where you can prioritize chats in order not to get lost in them. Am I right?

Congratulations on your launch! As I can see we can create conversations into tasks so, is there a way to assign the owner, timelines to those conversations as well?

Oh wow does this work across multiple slacks? I'm in way too many rn and the notifications are so intimidating that I'm usually hesitant to even open a lot of them at this point.

It's easy to get lost in the inbox chaos so this sounds like a really useful tool. I think it has so much potential. Congratulations on the launch! 👏

This actually solves so many issues if you work in a bigger-than-usual Slack workspace. It can get quite chaotic fast. Great job 👏

Congratulations on the launch @cathy_chen, @danielde! 🎉 I'm so excited to see Dispatch out of private beta. This is such an amazing feat! Thanks for all the hard work you have put in to make Dispatch available to everyone. 🙌 I'm sure many more people will benefit from it now. Wishing you all the best! 🤩

I've been using Dispatch for the last few months! It's incredible - really has changed to game for me

Dispatch's priority inbox feature is a game-changer for anyone looking to take control of their messages. No more missed messages or important emails buried in your inbox! With Dispatch, you can prioritize your messages based on sender, channel, message content, and more. This allows you to focus on your top priorities and manage your messages in a way that works best for you. Say goodbye to the stress of an overflowing inbox and hello to a more organized and efficient way of working with Dispatch.

I find slack really cluttered and distracting. What are some of the ways that you help me cut through the noise?

This is a super creative way to help users who have a problem responding to everyone who messages them in Slack (me admittedly). I really like that your helping to provide users with a means of communicating more effectively by treating messages as to-dos. You also give people the jeans to prioritize different senders.

This is one of those rare products that doesn't come about very often. I signed up about 6 months ago slightly skeptical (having tried many inbox aggregating across apps tools, even ones that include Slack), and all I can say is this one is different. It's still Slack, just 10x better for personal use or team. Infact it actually gets better with more team using it, but I'd continue using it even if my team didn't (again, rare). I use Slack as the central brain for my company, so #sales channel where new leads are flowing in, #admin for bookkeeping, #support for customers. Add in all the Slack Connect channels that everyone is moving to, and it's easy to understand how overwhelming Slack must be for most teams. Dispatch let's you prioritize your notifications, so you can get more focus work done, without missing the important messages. Want to be alerted by team DM's and only channels that contain your @username or maybe just when a customer writes into support with the word "important". Or heck, maybe only when XYZ customer writes into support. Notification triaging is so flexible, and you can have an important inbox, other, and anything in-between. Then working through the notifications, you have the quick ability to archive and snooze (anyone who has used Superhuman will immediately understand the time savings there). It's what I would have wished Slack would have built, but better, because Slack would have to totally rethink how it was built and overhaul everything to work like this. It's one of those rare apps that an API-first solution drilling into Slack is actually the best way to solve this and make Slack better. Blown away by the team at Dispatch and my team and I will for-sure be a lifetime customer (genuinely, no one on my team is willing to go back to normal Slack anymore 😅)

I've been a daily Dispatch user for the past 4 months and it's taken my Slack game to the next level. The simple stuff (like snoozing messages to custom times + much easier than native Slack) has been so helpful for managing and properly prioritizing the hundreds of channels I'm in. At ZenPilot, we run all of our client support on Slack and Dispatch has been a key tool in the tech stack. Big congrats to @stedmanblake, @cathy_chen, & @danielde on the launch here and move out of private beta 🙌

Congratulations on Dispatch's launch! It appears to be a fantastic technique to keep organized and prioritize critical information. I'm interested to see how it simplifies our communication.

Congrats on the launch @cathy_chen and team 🎉 I love the simplicity of it, and the efficiency it's already brought to existing users!

Such great idea! Using Slack can easily get pretty overwhealming and messy. The idea od making a conversarion a to-do seems super helpful. We will check it out, it might be a huge help for us in Adstra.ai. Congrats!

It sounds like an amazing product with lots of great features. I'm sure it will become a great asset to many organizations. Best of luck @stedmanblake

A pain solver will be helpful for our team to stay focused on important tasks. Congrats on the launch