Chris Messina

Integral - AI-native Slack alternative for big teams and communities

Integral is an AI-native Slack alternative for your favorite online communities and teams. You can download it for Windows, Mac, and Linux (launching for iOS & Android in July). It gets better, not noisier, as more members join it.

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Sina Meraji

hello product hunt community. 7 months ago i launched integral here and got a lot of early supporters and feedback. it also helped me raise a small community round. i then spent the past 7 months heads down building this full-time and testing with the amazing early users. happy to bring it back to you again now, though still a work in progress (as we will always be), but a version that i feel confident and proud to tell everyone i know about ❤️

Integral is an opinionated take on an app category that we spend so much of our life on. the last time anyone put this much heart and soul into this category must've been the early days of slack itself! hope you're as excited about integral as i am, and hope you'll be an early power user of integral so we can change the way a billion people self actualize.

Chris Messina
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Launching soon!
@sinamerajii congrats on the launch! Can you define the characteristics of an AI-native product?
Sina Meraji

@chrismessina thanks Chris for the question, and for hunting.

I think over the past 20+ years we've adopted a lot of software products into our every day life and work, and in most cases, it has allowed us to not just get 100x more done, but also be 100x more exposed to the consequences of getting 100x more done :D technology helped us with the doing more but not with the keeping up with what comes next.

communication is one of those elements that has been impacted by this the most, and since communication is the gateway to human relationships, that means we've become good at temporarily forming relationships with groups/individuals/ideas at an unprecedented scale, but not have the capacity to handle the cognitive load of dealing with it.

AI-native, to me, is a new set of software that not only lets you start more stuff, but it lets you maintain them, too. it's memory like we've never had before, it's smart routing (selecting what we should allocate attention to), and safe/responsible delegation of certain tasks (e.g. AI doing certain things on our behalf with our consent).

for a communication app, i think "AI-native" must always surface the most valuable interactions, knowledge and people based on what's top of mind for each of us now.

what do you think?

Mansoor Khan

Integral is an amazing product. Love the feature where i can quickly summarise text messages in a channel context. This is throwly going to revolutionise the productivity tools stack

Sina Meraji

@mansoorkhansitar thanks mansoor, means a lot coming from you

Nika

Wow, this is a bold move. I mean, both (Discord and Slack) are established players on the market, so it will be challenging. How big is your community now?

Pulin Yu
Launching soon!

Loves how it improves productivity and users' experience. Congrats on the launch!

Ryan Larson
💡 Bright idea

Bold! Please kill Slack.


Signed - everyone.

Arthur Cruz

Integral is like Slack but with an AI glow-up—clean, smart, and chaos-free. Perfect for teams who crave context, not clutter. Big W.

CaiCai
Launching soon!

Congratulations on creating a promising alternative for team and community collaboration!

Lakshya Singh

Congrats on your launch!

Lien Chueh

This is really interesting. I've 100% disconnected from Slack channels because of the overwhelming number of notifications. Looking forward to exploring more on Integral!

Lorenzo Ampil

Bullish on integrat! Been a user of Sina's founder platforms since the early learning loop days and can vouch for sina's unique ability to create software-driven collaboration experiences that maximize actually useful learning for members

Kanika Goyal

Amazing product!! Congratulations.

Quick Question - How is this using AI and how will you not face the exact same challenge as other apps once you scale?

Ivo Verhaegh

Congrats on the launch Sina and team!!

Def feel the pain of Slack getting so overwhelming and stuff being hard to find. Crazy to realize since the first two letters of the Slack abbreviation stand for Searchable Log ...

🚀 Pierre-Henry 💡

Looks fantastic!

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I'm really looking forward to your success! My take on Slack is that it's quite laggy. It doesn't have a native client, it's all just a web wrapper, leading to terrible performance. I hope you guys will be different!