Team chat: Notification issues across multiple devices
Users are experiencing significant issues with notifications and overall app responsiveness, leading to frustration and dissatisfaction. Problems include unreliable notifications, difficulty viewing past conversations, and a poor notification process across devices.
4 people in 4 posts across 1 source · demand low, pain moderate, competition moderate
The pain
shares of 4 quoted postsWhat goes wrong, and for whom
- Who
- 4 people using Google Chat and Slack
- What goes wrong
- Not classified into a failure type — read the posts below.
- How bad
- 100% of posts are complaints · pain score moderate (45/100)
- Since
- 24 May 2026 → 20 Sept 2026
Is this a startup idea?
Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use — the fix belongs first to that provider.
- Complaints are about
- Google Chat and Slack
- Looking for something else
- 0% want an alternative · 0% ask the provider for a feature
- What the numbers say
- Almost nobody is looking for a different product — people want this provider to fix it, not a new option.
The pain — what people say
Their asks, who is writing, and the posts themselves
What people were doing
Every post behind this page, by what its author was doing — and when each one was written
- Complaint4100%
Sources
4 signals · 1 sources
Evidence
Raw public posts behind this opportunity — click through to the original
…ed to love this app I updated this on one of my devices and hate it! AI features are terrible and unwanted, issues viewing past conversations, and notification issues. The new ugly icon is really symbolic of the update choices.
Strong complaintSlack — Annoying notification bubbles — It constantly says 1 notification exists despite being up to date on everything. Why do I have to click through “unread” tabs that are entirely empty to get rid of the bubble?!
FrustratedGoogle Chat — Notifications don’t come through Horrible app, and horrible notification process across Mac ecosystem of devices. All my notifications are on and set to persistent across devices in both chat settings and iOS settings. And yet, the dumb thing arbitrarily doesn’t send me messages unless I actively open…
Google Chat — ) : The app is super unresponsive and unreliable it didn’t give me a notification about work until the day after they sent it 1 star
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Why did it move?
Score 43.0 → 41.6 · 23 Sept 2026, 11:00 → 12:15 UTC
How the score was measured39 measured values behind the seven sub-scores · each shows the value, then the points it earned out of 100Show ↓Hide ↑
Questions about this idea
- Is Team chat: Notification issues across multiple devices a startup idea?
- Not directly. These are complaints about a product or service people already use, and the fix belongs first to that provider. The page shows what is frustrating users and how badly — not an open market to start a company in.
- How many people have this problem?
- 4 different people described it independently, in 4 mentions, the earliest from 24 May 2026 and the most recent from 20 Sept 2026. The quotes, with dates and links to the originals, are in the Evidence section.
- Is this problem getting worse?
- Current status: rising — mentioned more often than before. Momentum is 66/100, measured as how often it is mentioned recently compared with before.
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