Introducing Hamster Pad, the Best Way to Discover Slack Communities

We are on a mission to connect the world through chat.

In the early days of the internet, before the iPhone, eBay, and even Harry Potter, chatrooms were king.

These chatrooms, found on places like AOL, Yahoo, and IRC, were incredibly simple. All you had was a username. No profile, no nothing.

Then something happened. Social networks dethroned chat as the number one way to socialize online.

Suddenly people had profiles, friends, interests, pictures. A huge evolutionary step from the chatrooms where all you had was a username.

For years now, social networks have completely overshadowed chatrooms as the number one way to communicate with people.

But, we’ve noticed something.

Something super interesting.

Chatrooms are on the rise.

Hundreds of thousands of chatrooms have been created in the past couple years, with millions of people having real time conversations in them every day.

And it’s growing, super fast.

These chats aren’t just companies talking to each other either. These are communities who are choosing to interact in real time rather than on a forum or social network like Facebook or Twitter.

There are chats about startups, fasting, podcasts, coffee, psychedelics, and even Portland.

But chatrooms still have a lot of problems. We thought we’d go ahead and fix them:

1. Chatrooms are difficult to find.
2. Chatrooms are difficult to join.
3. You have no idea what chatrooms your friends are in.

This is why we have created Hamster Pad, the social network for chats. We have created a destination where you can find new chats, join chats, and see which chats your friends are in.

It’s simple, straightforward, and very much needed.

We are starting by focusing on Slack chats. We want to find every single community that’s using Slack.

There are already over 50,000 people hanging out in the different chats on Hamster Pad, and we only just launched.

If you have a community you run on Slack, or you want to find cool chats, we’d love for you to join. We are super excited to meet you.

We can’t wait to discover all the incredible real-time communities that exist in the world.

Want to get in touch? Send me an email at matt@hamsterpad.com