What's the best/easiest way to build bots for Slack?

Question

Messenger bots are super-easy to make these days, but I find making them for Slack really hard :/
cc: @bentossell

Ben Tossell · Accepted Answer

Also recommend this, it's what I started using before building facebook bots

Vinh Pham · Answer

Have you looked at Botkit yet? It gives you everything you need, aside from hosting, to build your own bots for Slack, and it's free and open source.

Daria Zwierz · Answer

Try the ChatBot platform. It integrates with Slack allowing you to build bots even if you don't know how to code.

Justin Mitchell · Answer

Owned by Google now, and has one click integration to Slack

Ben Tossell · Answer

Botkit is pretty awesome too +1

Shamit Khemka · Answer

Bots built on this platform are compatible with Slack.

Shamit Khemka · Answer

Choose this for Slack bots or any other business bots.

Shamit Khemka · Answer

It offers incredible features and functionality.

Shamit Khemka · Answer

Create bots for business teams easily.

Shamit Khemka · Answer

This platform is really efficient.

Daria Zwierz · Answer

The tool comes with a seamless integration with Slack so that creating your bot is a piece o cake.

Anne-Laure Le Cunff · Answer

Super easy to create bots across a variety of channels, including Slack.

Ricky Fung · Answer

i used botsociety for some initial mocks to show users in the early stages. doesn't have the full functionality of slack but served its purpose.

Cody Gaskin · Answer

Yeah I agree. New name is dialogflow https://dialogflow.com/

LukMat · Answer

+ support for many languages

Shamit Khemka · Answer

Landbot is the no-coding, fully customizable chatbot that lives on your website and talks to your visitors.

Shamit Khemka · Answer

Incredibly efficient chatbot for your business.