Namit Dasappanavar
Namit's BlogWriting on Slack, workflows, and things that ship.
Deep dives into Slack as an operating system, incident response, and the glue between tools your team already lives in.
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The New Hire Got a Bot Instead of a Buddy
Day one used to mean a laminated checklist, a buddy who was secretly in back-to-back meetings, and the slow dread of not knowing which questions were safe to ask. Then someone wired up a bot named Sprout — and the new hire never noticed the human was missing.
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The Slack Channel That Closed a $2M Deal
Enterprise sales runs on email chains nobody can find, decks that go stale overnight, and champions who ghost after procurement gets involved. There's a better way — and it lives in a shared Slack channel.
- #Apps
Slack Is an Operating System (We Just Pretend It's a Chat App)
PagerDuty fired at 2:47 a.m. By 2:48, a bot had opened a war room, pulled the last three deploys, and started a post-mortem draft. All before anyone found their laptop charger.
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Namit Dasappanavar
I write about Slack, workflows, and automation — especially the kind that runs at 2 a.m. when PagerDuty fires and someone still needs to find their laptop charger.
This blog is where I publish long-form notes on apps, bots, incident response, and building inside the tools engineers already use every day.
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