Create Your Own Public Slack Chat Community with Slackin

I was looking to create a Slack channel for Aspire Themes where I and my customers can discuss, share, and get fast support with Slack. The one thing I worried about is how anyone can get an invitation and join the channel easily.

I found Slackin to be a great solution, it creates a public landing page for users to fill their email to receive a Slack invitation.

Slackin

Prepare Slack

• Create a new team on Slack.
• Create a new API token to the team.

Deployment

• Install the Now command line interface for with NPM.

npm install -g now

Next, from the command line, use the following command to deploy Slackin to ZEIT, using the API token and the team name you early created.

now -e SLACK_API_TOKEN="<token>" -e SLACK_SUBDOMAIN="<team-name>" now-examples/slackin

Deploy to ZEIT

That’s all you need to do, and once the app is deployed, a new URL (example) for the landing page will be created and ready to share.

1. Landing Page (Demo)

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2. Badge (Demo)

3. Realtime Subscription (Demo)

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The landing page URL will be similar to now-examples-slackin-hzqfnemqkc.now.sh, and of course, customizing this URL to a subdomain would be another great step. I think ZITE Premium enables custom domain support, for now, I created a Masked URL Redirect Record with NameCheap and by doing this I can access the landing page from slack.aspirethemes.com

Masked URL Redirect Record

I hope this will help you create your next Slack Channel, and if there any tips or recommendations you like to share, I would be happy to hear and learn from you.

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