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Johnny Rodgers
@johnnyrodgersis
She makes the sign of a teaspoon, he makes the sign of a wave. Former principal engineer/product architect @SlackHQ.
Feb 12 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Today's the 10 year anniversary since we launched @SlackHQ to the world.

Seems as good a time as any to look back and try to make sense of it all. Not every day a failed game company turns into a massively successful enterprise software company, after all. @alirayl and I have been trading notes and drafts about this for the last few years.

We'd like to share the story as best we can, from our own perspective as well as from the many wonderful people who made Slack unique.

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Jan 12, 2023 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
One of @SlackHQ's enduring practices over the last decade is that we intensely and constantly dogfood our own product.

Slack uses Slack to build Slack.

This has a few interesting consequences and advantages that I wanted to share. What's dogfooding? Simply: using and providing feedback on the product you're making. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_yo…

The term still grosses me out, but alternatives have failed to catch on 😅
Nov 9, 2021 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
It's sunny where I live ☀️ A perfect day for a rollup of Slack pro-tips. I've worked on @SlackHQ since the first prototypes, and always forget that most people don't know about all the "secret menu" items

These are randomly organized based on the order in which I remembered them Type a comma in the quickswitcher to see all your most common/recent Group DMs
Feb 12, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
7 years ago today we launched Slack to the world.

We started the day with a connected users record of 9.8K. Almost ten thousand humans! Using the little thing we made! We made about $5K from paid seats.

It was a good day. They say the cells in the human body replace themselves every 7 years (this isn't true but it's poetic). It feels like that at Slack: the ongoing evolution and reinvention of the code, the company, and the product has replaced much of what we started with, though the DNA remains.