Thanks for building this msg! Excited to play with it.
Curious, you've built a couple products in the email / calendar management space now. How did your past experiences lead you to build this product?
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@davidspinks it all stems from trying to remove unnecessary steps in people's lives. I used to have filters and IFTTT alerts in slack and was annoying to turn on and off these alerts. so I wanted to a way to simply add and remove them directly in slack. But the main motivation for building this was to better understand the Slack API :)
Congrats on the launch! What are your goals for better understanding the Slack API? What else do you want to build ? :)
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@eriktorenberg thanks bud!
learning goals: adoption rates of single serving bots in an org, understand what the friction points are for users as well as developers.
as far other features to build 🤔the ability to respond to emails directly in slack, not needing to open another app 😎
Awesome idea, @msg. A while ago I was looking for an app or way to send "real" important emails to my phone via push notifications, rather than every email I receive. Using this, one could create a channel in Slack with push enabled. Anything that's shared there, is delivered to your phone.
We've moved all internal company email to slack at YesGraph. This means the only important emails are from customers, and there are lots of them. What's funny is that some customers have joined our community slack and are messaging me there. Things are changing fast!
It's true — email isn't going away, at least not anytime soon. Slack is generally reserved for internal communication while email is still widely used for external communication. This bridges the gap quite nicely.
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Seems helpful for dealing with those stuck in the 20th century. :) Would be neat if you could respond in Slack, but I'm not sure if the interface would support that very well.
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@rawromg I've been testing out a solution for that. right now I provide a link to the original email so you can easily reply without checking your inbox
Very cool, I like the idea that you could effectively use this for pushing high confidence / important stuff into slack. Maybe it already does this but would be great if it also archived emails that were pushed to Slack so that next time I had to load my inbox I wasn't seeing things I'd already probably seen.
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@wcrtr it doesnt do this but that is a great feature! will add to the list :)
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