Show HN: An open source alternative to some of Slack AI's premium features

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2 years ago

The official Slack AI product looks great, but with limited access and add-on pricing, I decided to open-source the version I built. Especially for all the communities on Slack that would have to convert to paid and buy the upgrade to access the official SlackAI product/add-on which is not going to be financially viable in most cases.

There's no plan to sell anything, just something I built as a way to learn some new tools that I thought others might get use out of.

The repo is a ready-to-run slack app that provides thread summaries and channel overviews on demand using OpenAI (heavy lifting done by gpt-3.5-turbo and a touch of gpt-4) and some standard NLP analysis. Anyone technical could easily swap in Claude or Ollama (and i'd welcome the pull request, it's been on my to do list!).

There's a link in the readme to a blog post I wrote sharing more about the how/why if you're interested.

I'm a product manager by day, so it's been fun to do some real coding again.

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