You're reading from Supercharge your Slack Productivity Discover hacks and tips for managing and automating your workflow with Slack and Slack bots

Product type Paperback

Published in Apr 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800569621

Length 300 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Slack

Concepts

Real Time Communication

Author (1):

Moshe Markovich

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Slack Overview

2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Slack FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Setting Up Your Slack Workspace

4. Chapter 3: Slack Features, Tips, and Tricks

5. Chapter 4: Onboarding Your Team to Slack

6. Chapter 5: Using Slack Externally with Live Chats, Guests, and Partners

7. Section 2: How to Use Third-Party Applications and Bots

8. Chapter 6: Your Workspace Slackbot

9. Chapter 7: Integrating Your Favorite Tools

10. Chapter 8: Automate Your Workflow with Zapier

11. Chapter 9: Slack API, Webhooks, Block Kit, and Sandboxes

12. Section 3: How to Build Your Own Bots

13. Chapter 10: Building Your Own Bot

14. Chapter 11: Buying, Building, and Outsourcing Your Bot

15. Chapter 12: Distributing Your App in the Slack App Directory

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Understanding the cost and time to outsource a bot

You can build your own, as well as buy your own, but what happens when you need a combination of both, when you don't have the time to build, but you can't find exactly what you're looking for already on the market?

This is where the concept of outsourcing comes into play.

Outsourcing is a unique tool that allows you to utilize external resources to essentially do the work for you. There are hundreds of thousands of professionals selling their time and skills online for this very purpose. But, before you go ahead and contract out your bot to an external freelancer or company, it's important to understand how to prep yourself to discover the right outlet to outsource to. In this section, we'll walk you through how to find freelancers, consultants, or agencies that focus on building Slack apps and bots for you.