How Our Slack App Got to 200K Users with No Marketing Whatsoever
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Really other marketing things came after, and it's mostly the Slack App Directory that got the app to 200K+ users–that and the fact that nothing else like this existed that was free.
I live on the East Coast now, but most of my friends are back on the West Coast. Sometimes, I have a thought or idea in the EST morning that I want to send to a west coast friend. That’s far too early in PST to be receiving messages—who knows who forgot to mute sound before going to bed—so I loved being able to schedule a text message to send during a decent hour on the West Coast.
Sounds like a super useful feature for slack. Would love it in iMessage.
Which is a shame, there's so much potential in Shortcuts but every time I face a use case and come up with an idea I seem to hit a limit in what's allowed.
Although I just checked, and apparently I'm out of touch, as both discord and signal don't offer this feature.
Maybe I'm wierd, but I use scheduled SMS and email all the time. I don't want to ping a coworker on Sunday with something non-urgent, so I schedule a 9am email or text if there is something I think of on the weekend. As the article shows, this isn't that unusual of a request,so why isn't it built in to more messaging clients? I know before I checked, I just assumed that it was a standard feature.
For me I think this tool would be better when for example you know it's a birthday coming up and you want to write a message now. It always bugged me that Facebook doesn't let you do this either (although it is obvious why FB want you to have to come back).
But I guess the funny thing about Slack not offering this is they have all the code / infra / text parsing they need to do it, it would surely be trivial to add.
I’m a night owl, I like to do thought work after the day of busy meetings. I don’t want my direct reports feeling like I expect them to reply at 11pm when I send them an email, or on Sunday if I’m working. So I schedule it to arrive in the morning or in the next work day instead.
You can tell them until you’re blue in the face, but actions speak louder than words.
If one of my team sends too many emails at weird hours I’d make a point of talking to them about their workload and life balance at an upcoming 1:1 to make sure things aren’t getting too off track.
By scheduling the message to send in the morning you are just setting the expectation to be awake and respond then, you aren't removing the issue you mentioned, you are just picking a different time to set the expectation.
My experience has been that simply telling them not to feel obliged to respond doesn’t really cut it, and people feel obligated regardless. This may be a cultural thing too, and again will probably differ company to company and region to region.
Ninja edit: you can even leverage mentions in these reminder messages, to ping yourself or your team.
TiL. I barely use SMS anymore. When I opened my client just now, sure enough, there was a little tooltip by the 'send' button telling me I can hold to schedule. I've never considered a need for scheduling SMS before.
Am I right in concluding this is a new thing? If so, I think it's a bit unfair to castigate slack for lacking a feature that's taken SMS 20+ years to adopt.