Dear. Future Markhub User.
Hello, My name is DongYoon Shin, and
I’m the founder of Markhub.
I’m writing to you from a place you probably know well: your team’s past.
Today, our team has stopped paying for Slack, Notion, and Jira.
But just a few months ago, we were stuck in the same vicious cycle you likely are: spending our entire day switching back and forth between those three apps, feeling productive but never actually moving forward.
The Real Problem Isn't "Too Many Tools"
We thought the problem was having three different apps. We were wrong.
The real problem was the invisible "Cognitive Switching Cost" our brains had to pay every time we acted as human APIs
translating a human "conversation" in Slack into the "machine's language" of a Jira ticket.
A sharp developer on Hacker News recently called this phenomenon a "stealth meeting." We call it the "Collaboration Tax."
It's the death by a thousand paper cuts that kills your team's momentum.
It's the "work about work" that drains your most valuable resource: creative energy.
Why "Better Integrations" Are a Lie
We tried to fix it with integrations. Zapier, custom webhooks you name it.
But we concluded that "better integrations" are a patch, not a cure. They offer a small tax cut, but we wanted to eliminate the tax itself.
The relationship between Git and GitHub provides the perfect analogy. Git was the powerful engine, but it only went mainstream after GitHub wrapped a seamless, opinionated workflow around it.
The powerful engines of work conversation, tasks, documents already exist. So we built a new Operating System (OS) that runs on top of them, creating a workflow where the connections are automatic.
How Markhub Eliminates the Tax
From Slack's Noise to Markhub's Signal
In Slack, important decisions have a 24-hour lifespan before they're buried in an avalanche of chatter. In Markhub, a conversation is a permanent, actionable object. Our AI teammate, MAKi, understands the context and helps you turn any message into a task or summary with one click.
Beyond the Notion & Jira Graveyard
Stop being your project manager's secretary. You don't need to manually create tickets in Jira after a meeting. In Markhub, a conversation about a bug is the ticket, with the full history attached. An idea for a new feature is the first draft of the spec doc, ready for real-time collaboration. We've stopped holding "funerals for our conversations."
Visual Feedback Without the Friction
For creative teams, the process is even more broken. Getting feedback on a design often means juggling email attachments, Figma comments, and Slack messages. With Markhub, your team and clients can leave precise feedback directly on images, PDFs, and videos, turning annotations into accountable tasks instantly.
An Invitation to the Future
One of our first users, the CEO of an architecture firm, told us: "We escaped the hell of infinite chat rooms."
If you're reading this, your team is likely still paying the Collaboration Tax every day just like we were.
It's time to stop working in the past. The future of work is here, and we're waiting for you.
DongYoon ShinFounder & CEO, Markhub
The Workspace OS with a soul.
Let's have markhub >> https://markhub.ink/