Product Hunt Daily - When Slack has a case of the Mondays...

When Slack went down on the first back-to-work Monday of 2021, the memes followed suit. Y'all are hilarious on social and honestly, we love to see it. The short outage also sparked questions about what to do when your internal communications system breaks down in our remote-first world. Twitter DM? Group SMS? WhatsApp? Zoom Chat? Carrier pigeon? We turned to Twitter to crowdsource your favorite Slack alternatives. Here are some of your top picks: Telegram: Privacy focused group communications platform Twist: Team communications tool from the team at Doist Zulip: Open-source team chat with threading Discord: Group chat built with gamers in mind Rocket Chat: Open-source Slack alternative Slenke: Team communications and project management Signal: Encryption powered messaging focussed on privacy Mattermost: An open source, self-hosted Slack-alternative Basecamp: Project management and messaging tool by DHH and Jason Fried For some newer alternatives, here are 3 products just entering the race: Rake: Combining internal messaging with stakeholder communications Taskade: Remote work hub for messaging, project management and more Vizy: Like Slack, if it were video/audio first A lot of you also answered with our favorite solution to a Slack outage... just take a nap. 😴