An Insider Look Into How We Built the Process Street Slack App (In 2 Weeks!)

Vinay Patankar March 27, 2021

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A software product builder presenting a workplace chat app connected to recurring workflow tasks

Slack changed the way teams worked by bringing conversations, files, and day-to-day coordination into one shared space. In December 2020, Salesforce agreed to acquire Slack in a transaction with an enterprise value of approximately $27.7 billion, a sign of how central workplace communication had become.

This insider look explains why we built the Process Street Slack App, how CTO Cameron McKay shipped the first version in two weeks, and how teams could bring workflow notifications and approvals into the place where they were already working.

Approvals: How to Streamline Decision-Making in Process Street

Vinay Patankar January 5, 2021

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Approvals: Streamline Decision-Making

Major setbacks. Lengthy delays. Unnecessary bottlenecks. When important items aren’t rejected or approved in time, progress is halted.

Take the United States’ government shutdown in 2019.

Accel Leads $12m Series A for Process Street’s No-Code Workflow App

Vinay Patankar February 27, 2020

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Founder holding a venture funding check with connected workflow modules

I’m very proud and excited to announce that Process Street has raised a $12M Series A for its no-code workflow app. Accel leads the round, with participation from Atlassian, Salesforce Ventures, and other amazing investors.

The funds will go towards our vision of building the GitHub of no-code, where teams around the world can find and use checklists, workflows, and automations to improve their productivity at work.

A Shiny New Look for our Favorite People

Vinay Patankar June 14, 2019

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A black-and-white woman presenting a full-length mirror beside the words Shiny New Look for Favorite People

Today we’re excited to announce a shiny new look for Process Street, built for our favorite people: our users. The new UI, or User Interface, is a fancy way of saying “how the app looks and feels.”

If you’ve been in the app in the last day, you would’ve seen that we finished the last few screens of the new UI and the app is now completely converted over.

Introducing Inbox: The Fastest Way to Manage Your Tasks in Process Street

Adam Henshall December 7, 2018

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introducing inbox Are you scrambling to keep up with your tasks and stay on top of priorities?

With tasks scattered all over the internet and no concrete place to see everything in one list, it’s not only difficult to manage your work — it’s nerve-wracking.

Enter Inbox for Process Street — making task and process management as easy as working through a single list.

Add an assignee to a task within a larger process, and the task will appear in their inbox. Due dates help you straighten your priorities, hit project deadlines, and show your team what they should be working on first.

Let’s take a look at how Inbox can make you more productive.
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Form Automation: Turning Your Checklists Into Databases

Ben Mulholland June 5, 2018

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Introducing Form Fields

It’s been a long time coming but we are beyond excited to announce that you can now add form fields to your process checklists in Process Street.

Check out the short video below for an intro to forms.

Form fields allow you to collect and store important data within set fields in your checklists.
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9 Ways to Use Template Overview to Keep Track of Your Business

Vinay Patankar March 2, 2018

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Operations manager using a mechanical process tracker to keep track of business workflows

You might use the most efficient software on the market. Maybe you’ve hand-picked the most dedicated team available. Perhaps you documented and improved your methods until every rough edge and bottleneck has been wiped away.

You’re still going to fail if you can’t track your processes.

6 Ways to Use Stop Tasks to Improve Your Team’s Workflow

Vinay Patankar October 25, 2017

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Black-and-white operator presenting a miniature workflow board with a barrier arm blocking downstream task cards.

Process Street is the Compliance Operations Platform for teams that need workflows to run in the right order, with the right people, and with proof that every required step was completed. Teams use it for everything from employee onboarding to content promotion workflows.

Some processes are too delicate to run as a free-for-all checklist. Stop tasks give you more control over the order tasks are completed by pausing a workflow run until the blocking task is done.

Process Street 2.0: Your Workflows, Now With Superpowers & Confetti

Vinay Patankar January 10, 2017

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When we started building Process Street, we thought we knew all the features our users would need.

We were quick to learn that we’d left an awful lot out…

After a year of continuous development, we’re rolling out Process Street 2.0 — a whole new app with a ton more functionality, including:

A rebuilt UI from the ground up
Form builder and automation
Task assignments and due dates
Run links and checklist sharing
Zapier, Google Apps, and Microsoft integrations
Easily complete tasks and checklists

Process Street isn’t just a checklist app anymore. It’s a complete platform for workflow automation, business process management and reporting. Continue Reading