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Slack didnāt begin as a business app. It started as a side tool inside a company that was building a video game. The year was 2011. Stewart Butterfield co-founder of Flickr had started a new company called Tiny Speck. Their big project? An online multiplayer game called Glitch. Glitch was weird, charming, creative, and totally different from most games. But despite a small fanbase, it never caught on with the mainstream. After launching, the game struggled to grow. In just over a year, they shut it down. But while building Glitch, the team had created an internal chat tool. It was designed to help developers and designers stay in sync. They used it constantly to share ideas, updates, code, jokes, bugs, and files. When Glitch failed, most people wouldāve walked away. Instead, Stewart asked: āWhat if the thing we built to build the game⦠is the real product?ā Read Full Article šš»
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