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AI · May 10, 2025

Genie – A Slack teammate to help teams research and find answers fast

Hi HN community, I'm Venkat, a student from India currently studying Human-Computer Interaction. Recently, I’ve been using a lot of AI tools to help with research and digging up information - but most of them feel like solo conversations. It’s just me and the bot. I kept wondering: what would it look like if a whole team could collaborate with AI? To explore this topic further, I’ve been building Genie, a Slack app that helps your team with data gathering and research tasks. Genie is a Slack magician you can summon like a teammate. Genie helps your team gather answers from internal sources…

Genie – A Slack teammate to help teams research and find answers fast launched on May 10, 2025 with 6 votes and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

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Hi HN community, I'm Venkat, a student from India currently studying Human-Computer Interaction. Recently, I’ve been using a lot of AI tools to help with research and digging up information - but most of them feel like solo conversations. It’s just me and the bot. I kept wondering: what would it look like if a whole…

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