The Most Fascinating Profile You’ll Ever Read About a Guy and His Boring Startup | Business | WIRED

From an extensive profile of Slack, which at first glance appears to be a new take on IRC + indexing (the article is more focused on Slack's founder than the product/service, however)

"Not only did Slack make sure the document went to all the right people, but it also indexed the full text of the document, as well as the conversation that took place around it, and attached the conversation to the document in its database. Now: Imagine that weeks pass by. You, sadly, die unexpectedly. Now that you’re gone, your coworkers need to pull up the document, but they have trouble finding it in your disorganized Dropbox folder. So instead they search Slack for “massive thought bomb” and, presto, there it is, along with all your notes and the feedback you received from your team. That’s Slack."

The Most Fascinating Profile You’ll Ever Read About a Guy and His Boring Startup | Business | WIRED