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24 alternatives to Alias
Create aliases in Slack and type less
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Alias launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Alias Bot▲99Teams in Slack often end up pasting long @mention chains, and someone gets missed (or the wrong person gets pinged). It’s worse for rotating groups like on-call, releases, incident response. We built Alias Bot: each channel can define aliases like `!oncall` / `!reviewers`. When someone uses an alias, the bot replies with the expanded mentions and lists exactly who was notified (so there are no hidden pings). This is intentionally channel-scoped (vs Slack user groups being workspace-wide), so the same alias can mean different things in different channels without admin overhead. Privacy…
Jan 2026 · yippa.io · its alternatives →
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Your networking assistant inside Slack
2016 · brandsly.com · its alternatives →
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Dialogs by Slack▲396Build interactive forms in Slack that do all sorts of things
2017 · docs.slack.dev · its alternatives →
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Easily manage your meetings from Slack
2016 · getsolid.io · its alternatives →
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A Slack buddy for your business apps. Smarter, more relevant
2016 · its alternatives →
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Suggestion Sam▲104A modern day suggestion box for Slack
2016 · suggestionsam.com · its alternatives →
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Amuse yourself or your slack team with a random joke
2016 · slack.com · its alternatives →
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Slack Foundry▲120A bot to help you with the basics of using Slack
2019 · slack.com · its alternatives →
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Whoa, a Slack command-line client inside Slack.
2016 · slack-metabot.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →
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