Salman S. Qadeer@salmansq · Senior Product Manager Platform, Slack
Hey, Product Hunt! I’m @SalmanSQ, the PM for App Unfurls. AMA! App unfurls allow you to build custom previews for any link people share in Slack. You can rely on notifications from our events API to know when particular links get shared, and then add formatted message attachments to the links you care about. You can also add buttons to let people take d… See more
Anil Dash@anildash · Cofounder, ThinkUp
@salmansq We've been so impressed by the thought that the Slack team put into App Unfurls — links are such a fundamentally valuable building block for the web and they've been totally neglected by most platforms. I think there's going to be a ton of innovation around unfurls now that you've put this out in the world. And yep, we've gotta mention how easy it… See more
Dharmesh Shah@dharmesh · Founder and CTO, HubSpot
@salmansq @anildash This is an exciting new development. You folks have been cranking on the Slack platform. As the developer of a bot on Slack, it's been great to see.
John Eberly@jeberly · Founder, Chatlio, live chat for slack
@salmansq Looks great, nice work! Any plans to support "dynamic" attachments that allow app developers to insert attachments that can display web/js embeds (in an iframe?) Have some interesting ideas for that at Chatlio. Thanks again for this update, looks great!
Reony T@megaroeny · Designer & EV Advocate
@salmansq @anildash I would love for this to make Codepen links interactive. 😜
Salman S. Qadeer@salmansq · Senior Product Manager Platform, Slack
@jeberly Hey John! We don't currently have iFrames on the roadmap, but we’re very interested in making the attachments more dynamic and interactive. I would absolutely love to hear your use cases for this so we can continue to work to support them better! In the meantime, you can read more about what we have coming on our public platform roadmap! https:… See more
John Eberly@jeberly · Founder, Chatlio, live chat for slack
@salmansq Thanks! Feel free to reach out to me on Twitter, would be happy to share our use cases.