PaulShin

I'm a founder based in South Korea, running a small dev team. Like most startups, we use Slack for chatting, Notion for tasks, Google Docs for documents, Gmail, and a bunch of other tools.

Here's what keeps happening: we have a conversation on Slack, a decision gets made, I go create a Notion page with the task. Then I go back to Slack and write "guys, please check the Notion page I just created."

And then... silence. I don't know who saw it. I don't know who's working on it. Two days later I ask about it and someone says "oh, I didn't see that message."

The real issue isn't any single tool it's that conversations happen in one place, tasks live in another, and there's no connection between them. Context gets lost every time we switch tools.

How does your team handle this? Have you found a setup that actually keeps conversations and tasks connected? Or is this just something every small team deals with?

I'm a founder (and ex-architect) building a logistics OS. Recently, I received feedback that my site looks "cheap and ugly" because I used Serif fonts and an engraving style aesthetic instead of the standard Sans-Serif "Clean Tech" look.

My intent was to evoke the "Age of Exploration" vibe, since the AI era feels like charting unknown territories. But users seem conditioned to trust only "Standard Blue SaaS UI."

My question to HN: Does a B2B tool have to follow the "Standard Modern UI" to be taken seriously? Or is there room for distinctive, maybe even polarizing, aesthetics in enterprise software?

I'm debating whether to cave in and redesign to "boring but safe" or double down on our soul. Would love to hear your thoughts on "Brand Distinctiveness vs. UI Familiarity."

Hi HN,

We’re working on a new tool and I’d love to hear your thoughts.

The idea is simple:

- Imagine WhatsApp-style team chat.

- Every conversation automatically turns into action items (tasks, docs, calendar events).

- An AI “coworker” lives inside the chat: it organizes tasks, reminds you of deadlines, and can even take care of simple work on its own.

- You can also record voice conversations, and the AI will generate a summary doc + extract action items into tasks.

Looking ahead:

- Those generated tasks themselves can become prompts, so the AI can proactively resolve what it can.

- We plan to connect this with MCP to let AI agents handle tasks directly across tools and services.

So instead of endless messages being buried, the chat itself becomes your task manager, doc hub, and meeting note system with AI doing the heavy lifting.

We’re still early, but I’m curious:

- Would you try a tool like this?

- In your workflow, what would make an AI teammate inside chat actually useful (vs distracting)?

Any feedback would be super helpful as we shape the product. Thanks!

Founder here currently building a product to address a problem I’ve seen repeatedly in modern teams.

We use Slack to talk. Notion to document. Jira or Asana to plan. But every time a decision is made in chat, someone has to manually copy, summarize, or “translate” it into another system. Context gets lost. Work slows down.

I'm starting to wonder: is it the tools themselves, or the gaps between them, that hurt our productivity the most? I’m not here to pitch anything, just trying to learn from your workflows.

"How do you and your team deal with this?" "Is switching between apps a real friction point for you?" "Have you found any habits or tools that reduce this friction?"

Would love to hear from you.