Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Emdash – Slack/Zoom alternative for distributed team collaboration
Hi HN, I’m Phil, one of the co-founders building emdash. Previously, I was an early engineer at Facebook and led Customer Products at Square. We’ve focused on making chat and video work together so distributed teams can stay aligned without drowning in information. You can try it here: https://emdash.io. It frustrated us how easily important conversations would happen and then disappear. Slack never quite matched how we worked. Channels were too coarse which led to noisy notifications and broken search. Zoom meetings weren’t much better–unless someone took perfect notes (which…
Emdash is a collaboration platform combining chat and video for distributed teams. It addresses problems with existing tools by automatically recording, summarizing, and transcribing conversations to prevent important… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Slack▲2,714Be less busy. Real-time messaging, archiving & search.
2013 · slack.com · its alternatives →
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The next best thing to working in the same room
2017 · slack.com · its alternatives →
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Integral ▲760i've been a power user of slack/discord and etc. since i was a kid and i dont like the fact that they get unusable/noisy after 20 members join. so i designed integral to get rid of the 2 biggest causes of noise on slack/discord and similar apps: 1. channels 2. recency based feed i've replaced these 2 with a few subtle features (different approaches for business vs communities). check it out and let me know what you think :)
2024 · integralhq.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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Here▲304Hang out and collaborate over video on a real-time canvas
2020 · here.fm · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I'm Kam, the founder and one of the authors of Linen. Today, we are launching Linen.team (https://linen.team/), a lightweight threaded messaging app for your team. Modern workplace messaging apps (like Slack) are based on IRC, which is great for small groups, but as it scales, breaks down quickly: you either get overwhelmed by notifications or you have to turn them all off. Most chat apps have threads tacked on but aren't built from the ground up with this design in mind. We wanted to create a thread-first experience where you can organize and prioritize conversations…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Teamhub.com▲237Hey HN, We've just launched our team collaboration platform where we're bringing together all the important tools under one app. We've been frustrated in the past with tools which had a huge disconnect between projects and chat. It always inevitably leads to teams using external chat apps for "project management" and then abandoning the main tools altogether. We're creating tools we hope teams will stick with. Super integrated Chat. Convert comments to tasks and have them auto added to project boards. Automations to help massively reduce burden on the team. Workflows, Time-Off and so much…
2024 · teamhub.com · its alternatives →
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Slack 4.0▲472A snappier, more efficient Slack desktop experience
2019 · slack.com · its alternatives →
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Taskade 3.0▲645All-in-one collaboration. Chat, organize, get things done!
2020 · taskade.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I'm Hakan, the founder of Colanode (https://github.com/colanode/colanode), an open-source, local-first collaboration app combining the best of Slack-style chats and Notion-style note-taking, fully self-hostable for complete data control. Here's a quick demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp1hoSCEArg As a heavy Notion user, I often found it tough to get my teams fully onboard since people naturally gravitate toward chat for quick interactions. Maintaining context between chat apps like Slack and documentation apps like Notion became increasingly…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SpatialChat 3.0▲505All-in-one space for collaboration, all-hands and networking
2022 · spatial.chat · its alternatives →
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Teamchatviz▲80Visualize how your team communicates on Slack
2016 · moovel.github.io · its alternatives →
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Bring your team together
2017 · blog.google · its alternatives →
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Standups▲279Remote teams standup tool that works like Snapchat stories
2018 · ondel4d.com · its alternatives →
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Slackmoji▲257🕵🏻 Browse, search + install Slack emojis in just one click!
2017 · slackmoji.com · its alternatives →
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Buzz▲161Your people, your agents, your project — all in one place
Jul 2026 · buzz.xyz · its alternatives →
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Smallchat Beta▲372Slack integration for chatting with visitors to your website
2017 · small.chat · its alternatives →
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