Slack Platform Blog

Well wishes and warnings in the Web API

Most of your calls to the Slack Web API succeed. You know this, `ok` is usually `true`. We…

Easy-Peasy Bots: Beep Boop!

You: Want to make a bot for Slack and would like to host it somewhere outside your computer. Perhaps you gave…

Hosting Slack Integrations

Every Bot needs a home, every slash command needs a host, and every notification needs to come from somewhere. Wouldn’t it be awesome if the top hosting providers created templates and open source examples for running Slack custom integrations and Slack Apps on their platforms?

Easy-Peasy Slash Commands: Getting Started

You: Have a great idea for a new command to the new operating system for your…

Slack Bot Onboarding

Lessons learned from onboarding 2,000 companies

Editor’s Note: Hi everyone, Slack Developer Team here — listen, the Growbot team pitched us this story and it contains so much good advice for developers making bots for the Slack App…

Easy-Peasy Bots: Getting Started

You: Have a great idea for a Slack bot, want to share it with the world (and maybe get it listed in…

Slash Commands Style Guide

How make your slash commands delightful.

We hope you’ve noticed that there is now a super easy way to build slash commands! Slash commands make your users feel powerful. By typing a `/` into the Slack command line, a drop down of…

How to Upgrade Your Slack OAuth Scopes

You might recall that the Platform team here at Slack recently released updates to our OAuth…

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