Slack Platform Blog

The Slack Platform Roadmap

We know that being a developer is hard, and building on a platform is not a decision to be made lightly. Many…

The Bot Rulebook

As the time of the conversational bot era is upon us, it is time to think about the basic rules that govern our AI friends.

What Installing 15+ Slack Bots Taught Me About A Great Onboarding Experience

When the teams on Slack, ma.. 
Drop it like a bot, drop it like a bot, drop it like a bot.

When it Comes to Bots - the Beer Test* Might be More Important than the Turing Test.

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…

App Directory Spotlight #7 — /done, Nikabot & Nestor

This week’s featured apps are all about getting work done as a team. There really is a team project management app for everyone. What do you use to track and celebrate your team’s progress? Let us know in your responses and if you’re…

The Era of the Conversational Office

This weekend we took the kids to the Computer History Museum, and the volunteer, a nice man…

App Directory Spotlight #6 — MonkeyWorks, Primer and odrive

Happy Friday! It’s featured app day at Slack and we hope you enjoy what we’ve got this week. Our first two apps are great for marketing and product teams and the third is a file syncing product that is applicable to everyone…

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?