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We’re bootstrapping Lowdown to $10k MRR by July 2020. Follow our progress and product updates.

Update 7: A guide to help teams work better in Slack

Update 7: A guide to help teams work better in Slack

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…
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Steven Hylands
Apr 19, 2020
Update 6: Unhealthy Slack Habits

Update 6: Unhealthy Slack Habits

For the last two weeks, I’ve been learning more about the problems companies have with Slack communication. These are often wide-ranging…
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Steven Hylands
Mar 20, 2020
Update 5: Learnings from an influx of new users

Update 5: Learnings from an influx of new users

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…
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Steven Hylands
Mar 20, 2020
How to tailor your newsletter to fit your Slack

How to tailor your newsletter to fit your Slack

Thanks for checking out Lowdown — the easiest way to create a weekly newsletter from your Slack content. Regardless of if you use Slack…
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Steven Hylands
Feb 18, 2020
Update 4: Is it time to change our target customer?

Update 4: Is it time to change our target customer?

Welcome to our fourth progress update. Updates will now be shared bi-weekly to allow more time for us to learn between posts.
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Steven Hylands
Feb 18, 2020
Update 3: The struggle is real

Update 3: The struggle is real

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…
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Steven Hylands
Feb 4, 2020
How to create a Slack community and landing page in one hour

How to create a Slack community and landing page in one hour

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…
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Steven Hylands
Feb 4, 2020
Update 2: Accelerate!

Update 2: Accelerate!

It’s been one week since our first update and we started the Propel Pre-accelerator. This week I’d like to focus on our experience with…
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Steven Hylands
Jan 27, 2020
Update 1: Introducing Lowdown

Update 1: Introducing Lowdown

Welcome to the first-ever Lowdown progress update! You might be asking yourself “what is a Lowdown?” and “progress towards what exactly?”…
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Steven Hylands
Jan 19, 2020
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