Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss
Hey HN – I built Dock after years of team chat frustrations as a founder. Free forever for teams up to 5. Unlimited search, unlimited history. No "upgrade to see messages older than 90 days" nonsense. Built for teams who work both async and sync/real-time when it matters. runs on SOC 2 infra, compliant, secure and in-transit and at-rest encryption, runs on Cloudflare. Early stage – would love feedback from anyone who's felt the same pain.
Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss launched on January 18, 2026 with 177 votes, #168 of 14,584 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches.
In plain words
Dock is a team chat application designed as a simpler alternative to Slack, offering unlimited message history and search without paywalls or retention limits. It supports both asynchronous and real-time communication and is free forever for teams up to five members. The platform runs on SOC 2 compliant infrastructure with encryption for data in transit and at rest, built on Cloudflare. It targets teams frustrated with traditional chat platforms' cost structures and artificial message limits.
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From the sources
Dock is team chat built offline-first and hosted in the EU. It keeps running while we build the next version on the same foundation. Notes as it happens.
The app your team uses keeps running and keeps improving. Underneath, we're building on the same foundation toward something wider than chat. We'll show it when it's worth showing. We've noted , and your note came with it . You'll hear from us when there's something worth showing, and not otherwise. Dock is team chat built on an offline-first foundation. Everything sits on the device, so it opens and searches without waiting on a network. That part worked, and it stays. So does the groundwork under it. Your data lives in the EU, on infrastructure we run, and your messages don't pass through third-party services on the way to you. We think that should be ordinary rather than a premium tier.…from getdock.io
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