Chapter 11: Buying, Building, and Outsourcing Your Bot

We have achieved the hard part, that is, we have learned how to build apps and bots from the ground up. We have brought external applications into our workspace to integrate multiple aspects of our organization into one communal place. We have utilized frameworks with Zapier, APIs, and webhooks. Now, we're going to take all that knowledge, everything we have learned, and hire someone else to do the work instead. Well, not always, but occasionally.

Building is a great skill to have, but is an even greater time consumer for the average busy Workspace Owner, Admin, or even general team member. Chapter 10, Building Your Own Bot, taught us the ins and outs of achieving this more difficult route from setting up to pushing a bot live, through the original coding, to framework assistance. Now, we're going to explore a different course of direction completely that may make the bot-creating experience more accessible and enjoyable...