Twist

Twist
Twist

  • Headquarters

    Riga, Latvia

  • Founded

    2017

  • CEO / Founder

    Amir Salihefendic

  • Employees

    51-200

  • Funding

    Bootstrapped

  • Products

    1 product listed

  • Avg. AI Score

    6.9/10

  • Website

    twist.com
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Products
1
Avg AI Score
6.9/10
Founded
2017
Funding
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About Twist

Twist is an async-first team communication app launched in 2017 by Doist, the maker of Todoist. Designed for focused, threaded discussions, Twist positions itself as an alternative to Slack for distributed teams that want less noise and fewer interruptions.

Doist, founded in 2007 by Amir Salihefendic, is a fully remote company with employees across dozens of countries. Twist is a natural complement to Todoist, the popular task management app.

Doist is bootstrapped and independent, with Amir Salihefendic as CEO and founder.

Specialties
Async CommunicationTeam ChatRemote Work ToolsThreaded ConversationsDistributed Teams
Products by Twist

All products by Twist reviewed by our AI panel of experts.

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TwistCommunication Tools

Async team communication without the chaos

From $6/mo6.9/10
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How Our Review Panel Scores Twist

Six independent reviewer personalities assessed Twist's product on their own terms. They disagreed by 1.7 points — The Skeptic was the hardest to convince, The Finance Lead the most positive.

The Finance Lead
7.8
The Domain Strategist
7.2
The Power User
7.2
The Domain Practitioner
6.8
The Decision Maker
6.2
The Skeptic
6.1

Averaged across 1 reviewed product in our catalog. Scores are out of 10.

Competitive Landscape

Who Twist competes with, and how they differ.

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Slack7.2/10

Slack is the real-time chat incumbent Twist explicitly launched to counter in 2017; Slack has since added its own threading and Huddles/Canvas features, narrowing the async gap Twist built its pitch around.

1 product reviewed on TopReviewed
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Microsoft Teams7.8/10

Microsoft Teams ships bundled with Microsoft 365 licensing, giving it default distribution in the enterprises Twist has to win one team at a time; Teams is real-time-first by design, not asynchronous.

9 products reviewed on TopReviewed
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Mattermost

Mattermost is an open-source, self-hostable Slack alternative aimed at security-conscious and on-prem enterprises, competing with Twist for teams that want an alternative to Slack for compliance reasons rather than async-communication philosophy.

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Basecamp

Basecamp is the other prominent bootstrapped, VC-free software company selling async-first team collaboration; its 37signals founders have made the same public case against real-time chat culture that Doist built Twist's launch pitch around.

Company Timeline

Key milestones in Twist's history, with sources.

  1. Milestone

    Doist redesigns Twist around async-first workflows

    Doist shipped a redesign of Twist, moving to a two-column layout and sharpening its positioning as an opinionated, asynchronous-only alternative to real-time chat tools like Slack.

    techcrunch.com
  2. Launch

    Twist launches as an async alternative to Slack

    Doist launched Twist, a threaded, asynchronous team-communication app built as an explicit alternative to Slack, Microsoft Teams, Workplace and Hangouts Chat, after nearly three years of internal development and use.

    techcrunch.com

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