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❤️ Did Slack Just Copy Tinder?
See how Slack borrowed an idea from Tinder and made it a productivity hit.
SaaS Strategists,
The software world is more connected than you think.
Especially when we boil it down to a feature level.
In today’s issue, we break down Slack’s new productivity hit feature.
And it came directly from Tinder’s playbook.
Let’s dive in 👇️
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Did Slack Just Copy Tinder?
Reading time: 2 minutes
I’ll make a wild guess that around 80% of you reading this newsletter right now, are using Slack for work communication.
I am too.
And it can definitely feel like email sometimes.
They tried fixing it with the Unreads tab, but it still felt too slow.
I think Slack finally came out with an innovative way of catching up with your messages.
The feature is simply called Catch Up.
Here’s how it works:
In short - it’s Tinder’s iconic swipe feature inside Slack.