You're reading from Supercharge your Slack Productivity Discover hacks and tips for managing and automating your workflow with Slack and Slack bots

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800569621

Length 300 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Slack

Concepts

Real Time Communication

Author (1):

Moshe Markovich

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Slack Overview

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Slack FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Slack Workspace

4. Chapter 3: Slack Features, Tips, and Tricks

5. Chapter 4: Onboarding Your Team to Slack

6. Chapter 5: Using Slack Externally with Live Chats, Guests, and Partners

7. Section 2: How to Use Third-Party Applications and Bots

8. Chapter 6: Your Workspace Slackbot

9. Chapter 7: Integrating Your Favorite Tools

10. Chapter 8: Automate Your Workflow with Zapier

11. Chapter 9: Slack API, Webhooks, Block Kit, and Sandboxes

12. Section 3: How to Build Your Own Bots

13. Chapter 10: Building Your Own Bot

14. Chapter 11: Buying, Building, and Outsourcing Your Bot

15. Chapter 12: Distributing Your App in the Slack App Directory

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Benefits of buying your own Slack bot

Creating your own bot is an individual and rewarding experience as you are building something specifically for you and your team. But there comes a time when constantly building bots becomes a labor-intensive process that many companies just don't have the time or energy to do. That's when you have to ask yourself, why build when you can buy?

There are hundreds of bots already on the market available for you within the Slack App Directory. While it may seem like your bot and app needs are unique and exclusive to your company, chances are some developer out there has faced the same issue, created the bot, and made it available for you to use via purchase. You can find these bots on the Slack App Directory, featured in the following screenshot:

Figure 11.4 – Slack App Directory Brilliant Bots page

We'll discuss the directory and how to deliver the app you create to the resource further in Chapter...