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Supercharge your Slack Productivity

By : Moshe Markovich
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Supercharge your Slack Productivity

By: Moshe Markovich

Overview of this book

Slack is an online communication tool that allows workplace teams to collaborate efficiently, effectively, and securely. It’s the leading channel-based messaging platform used by millions to align their teams, unify their systems, and drive their businesses forward. As a developer, you can use Slack to create tools such as bots that handle and maintain routine and time-consuming tasks. If you’re looking to set up a Slack workplace or build a Slack bot or app, this is the book for you. In this book, you’ll explore scenarios that show you how to set up a Slack workplace, build a Slack bot, or integrate your favorite tools. You’ll also learn how Slack can help you create a more collaborative, efficient, and coordinated work environment from any location. As you advance through the chapters, you'll find out how to manage your tasks and boost your business productivity by automating the trivial tasks. You'll also cover more advanced features such as using a Slack bot to complete tasks, including automating message responses and accessing personal reminders. By the end of this Slack book, you'll have learned how to use Slack effectively to communicate with your team and build bots and have gained a solid understanding of how the platform can help you to progress in your industry.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: Slack Overview
7
Section 2: How to Use Third-Party Applications and Bots
12
Section 3: How to Build Your Own Bots

Chapter 11: Buying, Building, and Outsourcing Your Bot

We have achieved the hard part, that is, we have learned how to build apps and bots from the ground up. We have brought external applications into our workspace to integrate multiple aspects of our organization into one communal place. We have utilized frameworks with Zapier, APIs, and webhooks. Now, we're going to take all that knowledge, everything we have learned, and hire someone else to do the work instead. Well, not always, but occasionally.

Building is a great skill to have, but is an even greater time consumer for the average busy Workspace Owner, Admin, or even general team member. Chapter 10, Building Your Own Bot, taught us the ins and outs of achieving this more difficult route from setting up to pushing a bot live, through the original coding, to framework assistance. Now, we're going to explore a different course of direction completely that may make the bot-creating experience more accessible and enjoyable...