Comments on “Kifi for Slack
Eishay Smith@eishay · CEO & Founder at Kifi
I’m the CEO & founder at Kifi. Today we are super excited to announce our Slack integration. With one click you can create a Kifi team that mirrors your Slack team. What that means to you: You can now get to Slack messages from Google search results. Never lose links messaged within Slack. And all the searches are deep searches: We index the content of… See more
Monica S. Flores@monicadear · Director of Digital Products
@eishay super sweet - i told our community manager at hashtagfemalefounders @angiecois
Jonathan Salomon@solojon · Technologist, Orange Silicon Valley
@eishay Why do you need info of team members and contact info? I feel like I have to ask my entire org for permission...
Léo Grimaldi@leo_grimaldi · Engineering @ Kifi
@solojon that's a limitation of Slack's API: as far as I know, the only way for us to get *your* own information and create your Kifi user profile is via the "users.info" API. Now that API requires a set of permissions that gives us access to your entire team's directory. I agree this is unfortunate and I promise we're playing nice. We've been very careful… See more
Sam Doshi@samir_doshi · Co Founder @ Relayo.com
@eishay Cool idea
Buster@buster · PM, Slack
@leo_grimaldi Agreed that it's a current limitation. Slicing the data by a particular user's perspective without granting access to the entire team's info is something we're hoping to support soon (no timeline yet but it's actively being scoped/started this quarter).