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Ben Tossell
@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
As part of the announcement yesterday with The Slack Platform Launch alongside Botkit and The Slack Fund, @SlackHQ mentioned Slack App Directory. Led by @buster :)
I said previously that it's a really interesting way Slack is going. I think this is an awesome step for a company to continue innovating while it grows. Full faith in @stewart & the awesome team he has built! We have April Underwood for a LIVE Chat today and she is Head of Platform at Slack.
With Facebook shutting down it's lab and speculation that larger companies struggle having smaller startup mentality and freedom to create apps/bots/products that move the needle this is a great sign. More companies, small & large, need to see how they can innovate in house. Take a leaf out of Slack and @betaworks books.
@buster - keen to see your thoughts on how you see Slack App Directory growing and continuing to keep Slack front of mind and innovation in terms of capabilities & integration into daily habits of people's lives?
Also really looking forward the LIVE Chat with Buster next week so sign up to ask him more :)
Slack feels like Apple for me... once you go there, you don't go back (at least, for me).
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Buster
@buster · PM, Slack
@bentossell We called this App Directory Lite internally, it's the very minimum we had to do to make it easier for apps to get added and for people to find the best apps. I'd say we're about 1% done relative to where we want to be, and will be doing a lot more with it in the next year. What do *you* think we should do?
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Ben Tossell
@bentossell · Community Lead, Product Hunt
@buster asking is a great first step ;)
Find out what kinds of businesses use Slack (if you don't already), see their pain points in day-to-day, make it easier.
See what integrations would make things seamless... even things like (not recommending this as such) /FacebookStatus: Too busy today > updates status.. keeping people in Slack is an amazing hook.
Always good to see what the community builds too and how to incorporate
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Eric Metelka
@eric3000 · Product Manager, PowerReviews
@buster @bentossell Links to integration website. The current pages don't have screenshots or pricing info, so right now visiting the website is the best way to gather information as to whether to install or not.
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Buster
@buster · PM, Slack
@eric3000 Yeah, for now we do require pretty detailed installation instructions on your website (and link to them with the "visit site to install" button), until we build up those pages a bit more.
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Alexander Khanukov
@akhanukov · CX/UX strategist, nascent entrepreneur
@buster Not sure if you guys do it yet or not, since in my excitement I'll admit I didn't RTFM all the way through: You probably already have a huge developer community, and I see in here alone you've been asked a ton of similar questions, so having some sort of monthly developer conference call - maybe even coinciding with your API release schedule - to collect feedback and key developers in on future capabilities, answer questions, etc., would really be beneficial, at least to me. :) Heck! At bare minimum, make a #slackdev channel that all of us can join to facilitate these discussions and networking. I know I'm starting to develop several integrations already, I'd love to search Slack to make sure someone else isn't developing a similar one already or better yet, team up with another developer, product person, or firm to build an even better product. I can't think of a better platform to use while building onto it. Congrats and thanks for the opportunities! @bentossell
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