Archive of stories published by Howdy

Your New Digital Coworker

Announcing Howdy, a powerful workplace bot for your Slack team

Something exciting is happening in technology right now that only happens once every decade or so — a maturation of technologies, a stirring of ideas new…


Our Slack Wiki

As our company has grown, we have faced an increasing need to create documentation about who we are, what we do, and how we achieve results. This lead me to look for a wiki or knowledge base system that would provide an easy to use, reliable place for us to store and share information for our small…


It is (Past) Time for Passwordless Login

Two years ago, I wrote an essay called “Is it time for Passwordless Login?” which proposed a design pattern that would replace passwords with a one-time use login link sent to a user’s email address or phone.


XOXCO to join Microsoft!

I am extremely excited to announce XOXCO has agreed to be acquired by Microsoft.

When Katie Spence and I started this company, the idea of chatbots and other talking computers was just beginning to get attention in the tech world. We found a developer…

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