SlackBucket helps you to keep your messages alive even if you don't have a paid Slack plan. Never lose your history again! PH users get 30% discount! Send me PM)
@tregismoreira nope đŸ˜ƒ $20/month costs on a single Digital Ocean droplet and a couple of evenings of coding. No need to cover storage costs as it will connect directly to users' dropbox. I'll try to build it over the weekend, we'll see how it will turn out. Nice coding challenge suggested though, thank you for this đŸ˜‰
However, one thing that I'll be too lazy to build will be search. But it might be built by community (as the code will be open source) or myself later when I'll not be this lazy.
Hey Makers!
I built this side project because I needed for my startup. We recently downgraded our account to the free plan and lost most of our conversations, because Slack only keeps 10k messages for free plans.
Slack has 8M active users, of which 3M are paid users. That means there are 5M free users. Most of them are part of large communities, in which many valuable discussions happen every day. And all these conversations are also gone forever!
I have two hypothesis:
1. A fraction of these paid users don't actually need the paid plan except to keep their history alive. Still, they have to pay $6/user/mo. In a team of 10, it becomes $60, which is quite expensive for some startups.
2. Most of these communities would also like to save their conversations, but they cannot afford to pay for thousands of users.
This is why I decided to build this project: to give a simple, easy and cheap way to save their messages completely.
I am looking forward to getting your feedback!
This may be cool but people will think about where their messages will be stored. You should give more information about your product to your potential customers.
It's good product at first glance. I just wondered what Slack is thinking about SlackBucket.
@kemalgoksucom The data is securely in a cloud database powered by Google Cloud Platform. But you are right, I gotta say something about it.
>I just wondered what Slack is thinking about SlackBucket.
Slack already give the ability for users (including the the ones in the free plan) to backup their data. They deliver a set of JSON files, which is only "readable" by programmers.
I'm just providing a way to automate the backup, store in the cloud and display in a human-readable version. I've read all their terms and didn't find anything that could affect me.
Thanks for your feedback.
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