We’ve been on a journey to learn how Lowdown can help teams using Slack. During this we’ve realised there are a wealth of issues with realtime chat we could help with which has made it difficult for us to decide where to place our focus. …

Yikes! How the world has changed since my last update 2 weeks ago. The world has gone into lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, many businesses face huge strain and many will close. For us, it’s a bit different. We’re lucky to be working on…

For the last two weeks, I’ve been learning more about the problems companies have with Slack communication. These are often wide-ranging and vary based on what the company does, its size and a variety of other factors. But throughout my calls and meetings, a few themes have still developed: It’s…

On 7th February 2020, we launched on Product Hunt finishing 4th for the day, and we were pretty happy with that. Several new users came on board, and we got to test if our current setup could handle a lot of traffic. It did… just about. However several days later…

Thanks for checking out Lowdown — the easiest way to create a weekly newsletter from your Slack content. Regardless of if you use Slack for a community or workplace communication for your product team or agency. It’s easy to make Lowdown work for you. In this guide, we’ll highlight what…

Welcome to our fourth progress update. Updates will now be shared bi-weekly to allow more time for us to learn between posts. Over the past fortnight, we’ve been trying to work out if we should continue to focus on Slack communities, or change direction and start to target teams using…

It’s now been two weeks since we launched Lowdown and we’ve still to acquire a paying customer. Why is that? This week I’d like to delve deeper into the early struggles of an online software business to find and convert their first paying customers. …

A Slack community is an awesome way to get lots of people who share an interest together in one place. Since it’s chat-based you’ll benefit from faster, more personal communication than you would in a Facebook Group or forum. …

It’s now been two weeks since we launched Lowdown and we’ve still to acquire a paying customer. Why is that? This week I’d like to delve deeper into the early struggles of an online software business to find and convert their first paying customers. …