Best Slack apps and integrations for a product manager — Part 2/3
The list of 100+ tools to satisfy product managers’ needs within Slack, served in 3 parts.
Here is the second part of the list of Slack apps and integrations for a product manager. This part is about communications and team management.
Table of contents:
I. Management
- task management;
- agile development;
II. Communications
- meetings and communications;
- customer communications;
- team management;
III. Marketing
- sales and marketing;
- design and content management;
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I. Meetings and Communications
1. Meetings management
Meekan
Meekan is a scheduling AI assistant for personal and team meetings. The service matches everyone’s calendars, and quickly finds common free times. You can talk to Meekan in a Slack chat and it will assist you immediately.
Price: free, but they charge for the self-hosted version of Meekan
Sunsama Calendar
This is a smart team calendar which can be used for a meeting preparation. The bot in Slack sends reminders, follow-ups, agendas and does other things. It’s easy and intuitive to use.
Price: free up to 100 collaborative meetings
Teemweek
It’s an another tool for team meetings with project planner, team calendar, and to-do list. It allows you to visualize a list of tasks and helps to react quickly so that you can manage tasks in a more intuitive way. Its Slack integration allows you to stay up to date with all the changes made to the plans.
Price: from free to $39/mo
Limnu
It’s an online whiteboard for brainstorming that helps you capturing new ideas during a meeting. It works on various platforms and allows you to create a new whiteboard from Slack just by using the command “/limnu slash” in a Slack channel.
Price: free (with limited options), paid from $5/mo
Roundee
It’s a video conferencing app with automatic recording and transcription so that everything you say is saved. It doesn’t work on smartphones yet, but it does work on a desktop via a browser with WebRTC. You can invite up to 32 people to a conference. Type the command “/roundee” to start a video conference and view upcoming ones in Slack.
Similar products: ClearSlide, HYFY
Price: free
Zapier + Slack + Speechtrans
This zap converts speech to text through Automatic Speech Recognition in 44 languages, also it converts text to speech and translates text from one language to another.
Price: from $1,99/mo for Speechtrans
@must-read
This bot creates manageable must-read lists for your Slack team. It’s useful, for example, in order to ensure that everyone is familiar with the results of a meeting. must-read is a very handy tool for those teammates who usually forget to do small but important things.
Price: free
Join.me
It’s an online meeting app with screen sharing, audio, and video conferencing. You can create a new conference inside Slack and then share a link to all participants. At the specified moment, the app notifies participants in Slack of the upcoming conference.
Price: $18 user/mo
HYFY Screen Recorder
It’s a screen and voice sharing and recording app. It will help you to show finished work, for example. It can be integrated into Slack team so that videos are viewable by anyone from those team without installing any app. By the way, HYFY is cheaper than Join.me.
Price: from free to $5 user/mo
Screenhero
It’s a collaborative screen sharing app designed for team work, such as pair programming or discussion about design but it can also be used for the project demonstration. Screenhero integration allows you to share the screen with a team member by typing “/hero @username”.
Price: n/a
2. Knowledge sharing
Ideabot
It’s an idea sharing bot for Slack. Got a new idea for a promotion or an idea about the ongoing project? Write it down, right now in Slack — otherwise you may forget it at all. It’s a very simple and intuitive app. Also, your teammates can vote for the ideas.
Price: free
Tettra
It’s a company wiki that helps your team organize and share important knowledge in one central, searchable, manageable place. It’s built purely for Slack teams. Tettra helps you to store project documents as well. You can search through wiki directly from Slack.
Similar products: Pingpad, Notion, Obie
Price: $5 user/mo
Guru
It’s a knowledge management solution that keeps your content and documentation up-to-date and accessible from the web. Guru’s Slack bot allows you to capture key knowledge shared in Slack with just an emoji reaction, as well as interact with all of your internal knowledge and documentation from within Slack.
Price: from $5 user/mo
Smooz
Smooz create shared Slack channel between two independent Slack teams. It can be really useful to communicate with agencies and/or business partners.
Price: €6/ shared channel / month
II. Customer Communications
1. Live chat and customer support
Like task trackers, many customer communication tools are integrated into Slack as well, such as:
Zendesk
It’s a multi-functional tool with helpdesk, issue tracking, and customer service support. Zendesk’s Slack integration notifies your team when a ticket is created, updated to “open” or “pending”, solved, and closed.
Similar services: Freshservice, NetHelpDesk, Reamaze.
Price: from €5 agent/mo
Customer.guru
It’s a tool for measuring customer satisfaction using Net Promoter Score. The service allows you to create surveys within your email for measuring NPS score. Its Slack integration is a bit limited and only sends each new NPS response to a dedicated Slack channel.
Similar services: Promoter, Wootric or SatisMeter.
Price: from free to $49/mo for 1000 surveys
Promoter
It’s a feedback service that allows you to identify errors in the product at early stages. Promoter suggests measuring Net Promoter Score, which is calculated by mailing triggered emails surveys. By connecting Promoter to Slack you’ll be receiving users feedback directly to a chosen Slack channel.
Price: from $100/mo
III. Team Management
1. Team motivation
Growbot
This Slack bot promotes celebrating achievements and challenges that your team has performed. All the props are saved in one place so the whole team can view them. You as a manager are able to track who receives most praises from others using the leaderboard feature.
Price: free for limited version, paid features starts at $25/mo
HeyTaco!
It’s simple Slack bot to express gratitude to any of team members. HeyTaco! improves team’s atmosphere with the help of gamification. The service also offers a leaderboard, which means that there is also an element of competition, everyone can see how many tacos others have collected.
Price: from free to $1,5 user/mo
Pep
This Slack bot makes your team more engaging and brings up some fun. You can customize anonymous surveys and receive feedback from your team. Also, you can see analytics of the employee engagement via diagrams on a dashboard.
Price: free for a month
2. PTO management
Timetastic
It’s a staff leave planner with a calendar for days off and vacations. Timetastic helps you immediately see who is in the office and who is not. The app automatically posts a summary with the list of those who are absent in the specified Slack channel.
Price: free for 3 months then $1 per user/mo
Convergely
It’s a multi-functional tool that has an autoresponder feature. If you go on a vacation those people who don’t know about it will receive a notification that you’re on vacations after sending you a message. You can schedule messages for unique or recurring future deliveries, assign tasks, annotate images, create simple polls right inside Slack.
Price: from $15/mo
GoCo
It’s a reminder for upcoming holidays and about who’s out of the office that works inside Slack. GoCo helps your team to be aware of holidays, in order to prepare their time off or getting things done on time.
Price: free
Absence.io
It’s a tool to keep track of your team’s vacations and leaves. You get a daily list of absent teammates in Slack. Absence.io has a full Slack integration including approval requests and messages sent from their Slack bot to the users instead of emails. You can use slash commands for those purposes.
Price: free for a team less than 10 people
3. Document and expense management
Abacus
It’s one of the most popular Slack applications in its niche which does expense reporting. Abacus also is integrated with various third-party accounting systems.
Price: from $9 user/mo
HP Print Bot
This bot will automatically add a print button whenever a file is shared on Slack. Any team member in a channel can use this button to print the file without leaving Slack. It should be mentioned that it works only with HP printers.
Well done, Hewlett Packard 🖨️
Price: free
Google Drive
Online file storage and collaborative document tool to connect Google Apps and Slack. It allows you to import any type of file from storage without leaving conversations in Slack.
Price: free up to 15 Gb
Quip
It’s a tool for collaborative work on documents, spreadsheets, and checklists. Quip is well developed for chats and discussing documents. Its Slack integration can be used to preview links to Quip docs, receive notifications when Quip docs change and create new Quip docs.
Price: $30/mo for a team of five people and $12/mo for every additional user
Qwilr
The service for creating commercial offers as a landing page. You receive a notification in Slack when a customer has opened a page, read it, accepted and made a payment.
Price: $29 for 3 users/mo
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Original post: https://productcoalition.com/100-slack-apps-and-integrations-for-a-product-manager-52f44ec2d8f4
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