Improve your Productivity [v1]

Slack Tools

Lex Sánchez Torres
3 min readJan 28, 2022

I just got a great newsletter from Product Hunt; -if you are not subscribed yet, what are you waiting for!?-, they talked about some Slack Tools, some of which might help you at some point, and that’s worth mentioning.

Just to be clear, I want to keep these posts as short as possible so as not to take too much time away from you guys reading this.

Let’s get to the point:

  • Motion: The app that uses artificial intelligence to optimize your day. It takes all of your tasks. All of your meetings. And builds one perfect schedule.
    Helps you and your colleagues find, agree, and schedule a meeting time.
    Pricing: Free Trial (7 Days) | Pro | Team
  • Fastest Fingers: find out who types the fastest on your Slack workspace.
    Is a collection of multiplayer speed-typing games.
    Pricing: Free
  • Bored: brings fun social games right into your workspace. Trivia, icebreakers, roasting, and more.
    Has games like employee roasts and spot the faker to play with your team.
    Pricing: Free for as long they are in beta
  • Incognito: upgrade your feedback culture.
    Lets you collect anonymous messages & polls in Slack for honest feedback.
    Pricing: Free | Standar | Premium
  • Magik: Everything you need to run your Community.
    Creates member directories, engagement resources, and more tools for your Slack community.
    Pricing: Waitlist
  • Sup!: Conduct daily standups, collect timesheet updates, customize standup questions, schedule multiple sprint check-ins, and build reports from responses.
    Helps hybrid teams automate stand-up & follow-ups asynchronously.
    Pricing: Free
  • Floppy Disk: is a Slack app to start saving threads now. No more copy-paste or screenshots of favorite Slack threads.
    Lets you save your favorite Slack threads to Notion, Airtable, or Coda.
    Pricing: Free
  • Whatis: Lets your team access and organize your context across Slack and Chrome-like jargon, acronyms, projects, people, and more.
    Can organize your team’s context, like acronyms and metrics, from across Slack.
    Pricing: Free | Basic | Advanced | Enterprise
  • Feedback Friday: Recognize team members in Slack with Kudos, feedback, and rewards.
    Strives to get your team on a weekly feedback streak with gamified participation.
    Pricing: Free & Pro (coming soon)

So far, some wonderful tools developed for Slack. I am sure some of them can help (us) at some point in (y)our daily work.

Thanks for taking the time to read this post. And I hope to see you soon.

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Lex Sánchez Torres

Let’s grow together, learning and sharing about digital products! 💻