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

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

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

Daria Zabój · Answer

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

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.

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Botkit is pretty awesome too +1

Justin Mitchell · Answer

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

Shamit Khemka · Answer

Bots built on this platform are compatible with Slack.

Alex Sunny · Answer

bokit maybe, its the best option available right now.

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LukMat · Answer

+ support for many languages

Cody B. Gaskin · Answer

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

Shamit Khemka · Answer

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

Daria Zabój · Answer

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

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

Shamit Khemka · Answer

This platform is really efficient.

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.

Shamit Khemka · Answer

Create bots for business teams easily.

Shamit Khemka · Answer

It offers incredible features and functionality.

Shamit Khemka · Answer

Incredibly efficient chatbot for your business.

Shamit Khemka · Answer

Choose this for Slack bots or any other business bots.