Chapter 7. Publishing Your App
At this point, you have all the knowledge needed to build a bot that can increase your productivity and improve communications across teams. Hopefully, by now you have already thought of an idea for a bot that will not just make your own life easier but may also be useful for others. In this chapter, you will learn how to make your bot accessible to users outside of your own team and across the Slack community.
We will cover the steps necessary to add your bot to the Slack app directory and to make it accessible to others. We will review the following steps to add your bot onto the Slack app directory:
- Registering your bot and obtaining tokens
- Understanding the OAuth process
- Configuring the Add to Slack button
- Scopes
- Submitting your app or bot to the app directory
- Monetizing your bot
