Building an automated way to stop Slack from becoming a file black hole. Would love your feedback.
Hey r/Slack,
If your team is anything like ours, Slack is where files go to die. Someone drops a PDF, a design asset, or a spreadsheet into a channel. A week later, it’s buried under 500 messages, or worse, it gets wiped out by a 90-day retention policy.
We got tired of manually downloading Slack files and sorting them into cloud storage, so we built an integration for our tool, the drive ai.
The concept is simple: you track specific Slack channels, and every time a file is uploaded there, it automatically syncs to your drive. Instead of just dumping it into a giant "Slack Downloads" folder, our AI reads your existing folder structure (or plain English rules you set up) and neatly organizes the file into the exact right spot.
We want to make sure this is actually solving real-world headaches for teams before we push it further.
- If you manage files in Slack, how do you handle organization right now?
- Do you prefer files sorted by project, by channel name, or by the person who uploaded them?
Would love to get your brutal feedback on whether this sounds useful or how we can make the sync logic smarter for your workflow!