Ask HN: What breaks first when your team grows from 10 to 50 people?

Re:Ask HN: What breaks first when your team grows from 10 to... by hrmtst93837 on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @08:07AM (#47424673)

Docs help, but they don't save you from a team that treats Slack as the source of truth. At 50 people the bigger failure is ownership: nobody knows which page is current, nobody gets time to fix stale docs after the process changes, and after a few rounds of that the wiki becomes a museum piece new hires learn to ignore.

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Re:Ask HN: What breaks first when your team grows from 10 to... by jacquesm on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @08:10AM (#47424701)

Slack is communication, not documentation.

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Re:Ask HN: What breaks first when your team grows from 10 to... by misiek08 on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @09:36AM (#47425658)

It should be, but I’ve also seen few teams having everything on slack. Better ones at least pinned stuff

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Re:Ask HN: What breaks first when your team grows from 10 to... by leetbulb on Thursday March 19, 2026 @10:50AM (#47440487)

Configure Slack to only retain messages for a month or so. People will stop relying on it for such.

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Re:Ask HN: What breaks first when your team grows from 10 to... by DANmode on Thursday March 19, 2026 @08:21PM (#47448515)

Can’t you do that by not paying?

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Re:Ask HN: What breaks first when your team grows from 10 to... by DANmode on Thursday March 19, 2026 @08:20PM (#47448504)

That’s a culture/leadership problem.

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