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# Building Slack: Day 1
- URL: https://werd.io/building-slack-day-1/
- Published: 2024-02-15T01:46:59.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-15T01:46:59.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: NotableLinks, #Import 2025-06-13 09:20

Catnip for me: the first post in a new blog that tells the story of building Slack from the ground up, by two of its former employees.

This was surprising to me, although I guess I don't really know why: "We used the tried and true LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP). We were all deeply familiar with these conventional tools, and Cal and the Flickr team had defined a framework for building out and scaling web applications using them (called flamework for Flickr framework)." [#Technology](https://werd.io/tag/Technology)

\[[Link](https://buildingslack.com/day-1/)\]