Top 5 Brand New Slack Apps You Should Install Right Now
Slack is a messaging app for teams. It starts as a simple chat, but it becomes incredibly powerful through its hundreds of integrations. All the information critical to make you successful at work now converge to Slack and integrations can automate many of your workflows: less switching between apps, more focus, less busy.
We are going to review the best Slack apps we find, after trying them and making sure they can really improve your work-life. Today we start with the first 5 that truly got our attention.
Figma is a collaborative interface design tool. Our aim is to combine the power of legacy programs like Illustrator with the collaborative flexibility of web apps like Google Docs. You can do vector-based UI design, editing, commenting, sharing, and storing all in one place — in the browser. When you connect Figma to Slack, you are able to create a shared team space and maintain a directory of team files that is constantly up-to-date, with version history for every file.
Why we like Figma: It keeps designers, product managers and developers in sync and let them work as a team like never before. So worth it.
Read more about Figma here. Article by John Lilly
Automatically finds and posts reviews from the App Store for your app for the entire team to see. Automatically imports and beautifully formats App Store sales reports so you know how many downloads you get every day.
Why we like Launchkit: You get App Store reviews in real time to smile for a 5-star review or to fix that 1-star bug right away. Daily downloads gives you a pulse of your distribution strategy. This is automation that saves you so much time.
Read about Launchkit’s features here. Article by Brenden Mulligan
Stripe is a full online payment infrastructure that makes it easy to start accepting payments online.
This integration will post to a Slack channel when updates occur on charges, invoice payments, subscriptions, transfers, and more. You’ll be able to choose the events you want to receive in Slack.
Why we like Stripe: Who doesn’t like to see $$$ coming in??? Highly motivational.
Turn your messages into actions!
Kyber makes your team collaborating in the most productive way by turning Slack messages into to-dos, reminders and calendar events.1. Assign tasks to each other with a simple message. When you complete a task the sender is automatically notified.
2. Invite one or more people, or an entire channel, to a meeting and sync it to everyone’s calendar.
3. Check and update your calendar, to-dos, and reminders planned for the day or the week. When something is done, mark it completed.It works with any Calendar: Google, Apple iCloud, Microsoft Outlook/Exchange, Yahoo, anything.
Why we like Kyber: Our pick of the week: transforming messages in trackable to-dos, timely reminders and calendar invites is just genius and makes your team — and you — truly productive and highly organized. Plus, one single integrations takes care of multiple apps: get it.
Read more about Kyber here. Article by Paolo Perazzo
Airtable is the easy way to create your own organizational databases. From nonprofits to cattle farmers, everyone is using Airtable to stay organized.Use Airtable to share survey forms and manage entries, track collections or ideas, and manage customers or contacts — all in one place. Get started instantly with a variety of templates ranging from store inventory to applicant management, or easily piece together your own layout from scratch.Airtable seamlessly integrates with Slack to automatically post a message when anyone makes changes to your databases, complete with a link to jump straight to the changed content.
Why we like Airtable: A user-friendly database that gives you an incredible flexibility to organize anything. Slack itself uses it to collect survey data and get answers in real time — it must mean something.
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