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title: "Slack is extorting us with a $195k/yr bill increase"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/slack-is-extorting-us-with-a-195k-yr-bill-increase-ndlr24zc5
source_url: https://skyfall.dev/posts/slack
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2025-09-18T02:21:52.640Z
updated: 2025-09-18T02:22:15.547Z
tags: ["slack"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 24
comments: 5
language: en
---

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# Slack is extorting us with a $195k/yr bill increase

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 2 min read · 24 upvotes · 5 comments

## Summary

Hack Club, a nonprofit coding education organization, faces a sudden $195k annual price increase from Slack with less than a week's notice to pay or lose their workspace and message history. The organization is migrating to Mattermost and warns other small businesses about the risks of vendor lock-in and the importance of data ownership.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@ajhalili2006** · 3 upvotes

> Hi, daily.dev community! Fellow Hack Clubber here (and part of [the Alumni Society](https://github.com/hackclub-alumni)), and although it was rushed because it was a surprise, for context HC's Slack bill is around USD 5,000+.

**@seyoungcho** · 3 upvotes

> First, get as many users as you can. Second, don't give a single shit about them and torture them with high charges until there're cheaper alternatives.
> Last, spend the money you made to enjoy the rest of your life

**@hhaithem** · 1 upvotes

> Exactly why I never got the Slack hype. Mattermost is open source, on-prem, and puts you in control, no surprise bills, no data hostage lol

**@rallisf1** · 1 upvotes

> Monday.com did something similar to my company. We have had the Enterprise plan for years, but they changed their plans and for some reason we had to pay 3 times more with a 2 weeks notice. We paid, as there was not enough time to migrate anywhere our 7 years of data. We are currently building a solution based on Grist.

**@tylertechie** · 0 upvotes

> Monopolies, gotta love em.

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