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Birdly Business Cards - A Slack bot that handles your business cards

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Excellent idea . Is there a way to automatically add the contact information in my iphone directory ?
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Hello Florian. It's not possible yet but we are already working on that next step. Glad to see that this next update will be useful :)
This looks slick! Love seeing Birdly innovate on slack bots. Questions: Why make this a slack bot instead of a standalone app that does the same thing? Are you expecting teams to use this together or is it about adoption speed amongst slack users with the app already installed?
Maker
Hey Scott. We believe sharing contacts with your whole team is key in such service. Slack enables a frictionless deployment (everybody can use the service as soon as the bot is installed) as well as a high adoption rate (because people already know how to use Slack). Finally, our service is multi platform by definition (ios, android web, desktop...) as Slack does that job for us. I guess that's why we didn't do an app :)
makes perfect sense!
Maker
Hello Product Hunters! We're happy to show you our new Slack bot, a bot that processes your business cards. Just take a snap of a business card with your smartphone and send it to our Slack bot. He'll process it and come back to you with a spreadsheet including all contact info (name, company, position, mail, phone, etc.) It's funny because we would never have thought of such a use for a Slack bot, but we had many people asking us for the feature. We thought we would give it a try and now we're at Web Summit meeting many people each time, it comes in handy :) This bot is also an opportunity for us to evolve so that you can get the most out of Birdly. Here's more background here: The product is very minimal for now but we thought about adding a few features. If you have comments I'd be happy to hear about them! P.S.: there's way more to come in the next few weeks
It seems amazing. Just installed it for our team, I'll come back with feedback :D
Maker
Great ! Can't wait to hear what you think about our product.
This looks amazing! Definitely one of the best Slack Apps.
Maker
Thanks a lot Vignesh ! Feel free to try us out :)
Giving it a shot now. Really like that you can use it via Slack and get all of the info you need.
Maker
Hey Mark ! Thanks for the support. We find this approach very promising as well. We'll see how users feel about this approach.
So far it's worked pretty well. Very slick.