[dmode]

Productivity apps in Silicon Valley startups are out of control. My wife's company has Slack, G Suite, JIRA, Facebook at Work, Zugata, and now getting Asana. If you need to ping someone, you have to ping them in Slack, Hangouts, FB Messenger and hope they respond to one.

[conradk]

Hence tools like Zappier. I've had great success getting all notifications in Slack via Zappier, reducing switching between different tools. But that means that Zappier has access to EVERYTHING, which somewhat scares me from a privacy and intellectual property standpoint.

[shard972]

I'm personally more scared about CI/Deployment SaaS companies.

[ajeet_dhaliwal]

This does seem to indicate that current methods of communication aren't working (or at least enough people are convinced it's not) since everyone is buying solutions to fix the problem.