Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Linen.team – A lightweight, thread-first Slack alternative
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…
Linen.team is a lightweight team messaging application designed around threaded conversations rather than traditional channels. Built for teams that struggle with notification overload in apps like Slack, it organizes… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Linen.team – A lightweight, thread-first Slack alternative launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Slack▲2,714Be less busy. Real-time messaging, archiving & search.
2013 · slack.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, My name is Kam. I'm the founder of Linen.dev. Linen communities is a Slack/Discord alternative that is Google-searchable and customer-support friendly. Today we are open-sourcing Linen and launching Linen communities. You can now create a community on Linen.dev without syncing it from Slack and Discord! I initially launched Linen as a tool to sync Slack and Discord conversations to a search engine-friendly website. As I talked to more community managers, I quickly realized that Slack and Discord communities don't scale well and that there needs to be a better tool, especially for…
2022 · github.com · 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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Trello for Slack▲636Organize anything with anyone, inside Slack
2016 · trello.com · its alternatives →
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Keep conversations organized and easy to follow with Threads
2017 · slack.com · its alternatives →
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Twist 2.0▲291For teams burnt out by real-time chat, work async, not ASAP
2021 · twist.com · its alternatives →
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Time for new social rituals for your remote team
2022 · thursday.social · 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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Teamflow▲490Feel like a team again with your own virtual office
2021 · teamflowhq.com · its alternatives →
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Bring your team together
2017 · blog.google · its alternatives →
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1v1 for Slack▲3081-on-1 meetings, schedule, prep & document, all inside Slack
2022 · springworks.in · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! Kam here. I’m the founder of Linen.dev https://linen.dev, a website that makes your public Slack community Google searchable. Linen will sync your Slack threads and make it SEO friendly so your community can find Slack content that was previously hidden. Previously I worked on a popular open source project which had a sizable Slack community. Slack was great for engaging with community members and with early sales. However as community scales Slack becomes this black hole where context becomes lost. Most public communities can’t afford to pay for several…
2022 · its alternatives →
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HeySpace▲172If Trello and Slack had a baby - new team collaboration app
2018 · timecamp.com · its alternatives →
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Glue▲291Glue is team chat optimized for AI. Today we're releasing support for MCP tools right in your Glue team conversations. Just like MCP in Cursor or Windsurf, you can now use any tool in a private AI chat or any Glue team thread while pulling in its full context to help. Using team chat context for MCP is kind of game-changing, letting you do anything from creating a calendar event or Linear issue to looking up data from an internal system. Our team has been using MCP tools as part of core team workflows for a few weeks now, and it's fantastic. We're particularly fans of remote-hosted MCP…
2025 · glue.ai · its alternatives →
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Kwayet▲114Team chat & collaboration app, a simple way to Slack
2021 · kwayet.app · its alternatives →
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