Hi! We’ve just launched Slack's App Directory with 150+ apps all designed to make your team more productive: https://slack.com/apps
We also launched a new slash command to help you easily find the right apps for you. Try "/apps cats" from your own Slack team to get app results that match "cats" (or any other keyword) sent right into your channel.
We're super excited about all of the great things people are building on the Slack platform. Of course, we want your apps to be discovered by other teams on Slack, so we've greatly simplified the process for submitting them to the directory. If you're building things on Slack, read up on these tips and learn how to submit them to the new directory here: https://api.slack.com/slack-apps We'll be adding new apps to the directory every day.
If you're not a developer, we're also interested in hearing your feedback on the App Directory in general. What apps do you think are missing, what would you like to see added to the directory in the future, etc. We'll be responding to comments here throughout the day.
@stevecaldwell If your installation instructions are clear, you're asking for a reasonable set of permissions, you have good links to support and privacy, and it's easy to understand how your app works once you install it, it could take as little as a day. Since this is all still new we're often asking for a bit of extra info about apps and that requires some back and forth. But so far it's not taking not more than a week in almost all cases.
@buster Buster, this is awesome! Congrats. <3 Slash Team!
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@buster we just launched our wellness bot for slack on producthunt - https://www.producthunt.com/post... . Would love your thoughts on it. We believe sitting is becoming the new smoking. Our bot creates healthy habits in users with timely, contextual mini-interventions. Would also like to see if we can get featured as one of the new apps on the app landing page :D
Wow, this is super exciting! I was already mulling building a custom integration for Slack, but this puts the icing on the cake. I think I'm going to start on it tonight :)
DOPE. Makes a lot of sense. Just let a friend know who's working on integrating their wellness company tighter with Slack!
@buster any recommendations or favorites so far?
@evanczhou There's quite a variety, so it really depends on the kind of work you do. Personally, I'm particularly interested in the stuff around bots that people are doing. Howdy, Awesome, and Growbot are all doing super interesting things that make work life more pleasant and productive.
We're using the Airtable integration to process submissions to our app review flow, and have found their service to be really useful in our own day-to-day workflows.
The way Figma has integrated into Slack is also really interesting and creates a very symbiotic relationship between their product and Slack that I hope more people consider.
There's a lot more, but those are the ones that come immediately to mind right this moment.
So much heart for slack. This is going to fast track bots like nothing else. Interesting to see how / if other message platforms open up their platforms in such a free manner. Slack++
@buster congrats - we have been ready for a while with our integration (https://kyber.me/slack), but we have been told we could not get listed as we didn't have an App ID but just created a command to be manually added. Is that true? I think I saw some apps that had the old process listed in the app store at launch. We are now good to go with App ID, Slack button, but have been waiting 6+ months in your queue to be listed because of the advanced ways we were using the APIs :(. Anything you can do to "accelerate" the approval? Thanks and congrats again - looks great.
@sivola I see you in the queue now, so you'll be hearing from us in the next few days. Now that this is launched, and we have a team of people working on the directory and the app review flow, the days of waiting months to get listed are over!
@buster fantastic! Do you guys have an alias to ask few questions? In the past we used the zendesk form but maybe you have a more direct (and faster, as more target) alias? Thank you very much - excited to get started!
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