DanswerBot – Open-source Slack bot to automate repetitive questions
Slack questions have always been a huge time sink for me. They’re a distraction that pulls me away from what I’m doing, and often requires digging up old knowledge. If I’m in the middle of something complex, I may take a while to context switch and get around to answering, which leaves the asker blocked for hours. Addressing this seems simple: give an LLM your organizational context and plop it in Slack to answer things for you. So that’s why we built DanswerBot! It’s MIT licensed (https://github.com/danswer-ai/danswer) and completely free to use. The bot can…
DanswerBot – Open-source Slack bot to automate repetitive questions launched on September 27, 2023 with 6 votes, #1,645 of 4,228 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was not reachable when checked in September 2026.
What it does
In the maker’s words, at launch
Slack questions have always been a huge time sink for me. They’re a distraction that pulls me away from what I’m doing, and often requires digging up old knowledge. If I’m in the middle of something complex, I may take a while to context switch and get around to answering, which leaves the asker blocked for hours.…
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Danswer – Open-source question answering across all your docs2023 · github.com · ▲189My friend and I have been feeling frustrated at how inefficient it is to find information at work. There are so many tools (Slack, Confluence, GitHub, Jira, Google Drive, etc.) and they provide different (often not great) ways to find information. We thought maybe LLMs could help, so over the last couple months we've been spending a bit of time on the side to build Danswer. It is an open source, self-hosted search tool that allows you to ask questions and get answers across common workspace apps AND your personal documents (via file upload / web scraping)! Full demo here:…
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