The Slack Bot Tutorial I Wish Existed

Building useful bots with Node.js and Botkit

Process automation is essential to a growing team. Backstage Capital has grown quickly to over 30 remote teammates. We’ve celebrated a ton of wins recently, such as investing in 100 impressive startups and launching 4 city-based accelerators. Despite how amazing our team is (and honestly, we are) with producing initiatives, we aren’t immune to growing pains. It can be difficult to stay in-sync across the Crew.

As a distributed team, lots of our communication happens in Slack. Slack bots are typically micro-projects that make your life easier by automating workflow tasks and information sharing. One of our experimental projects is a stand-up bot. Rather than holding a time-intensive meeting, each teammate can open a DM with the bot, go through a series of questions (think: having a conversation with the bot), and the bot will post the answers to a shared channel that anyone can access.

Simple right?