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

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Benefits of building your own Slack bot

In many ways, building your own bot is the easiest way to go when it comes to customization. When you build an app or a bot, you hold the reins. You decide how the bot is framed, what it says, where it reacts, how it appears, and whether it includes an image, or text, or text with bulleted lists, or questions. You are totally and completely in charge of the result of your product.

In addition to customization, there are many other reasons why you would choose to create a Slack bot of your own. Let's revisit some of these basic advantages.

The following are the benefits to building your own bot:

Around-the-clock shifts: Bots are constantly active, that is, 24/7, unless you choose to turn them off.
Instant responses: Bots respond immediately to you and your team's questions and requests.
Patience: Bots, unlike human members, have all the time and patience in the world to respond to repetitive questions and consistent...