Submitting your Slack app for review

This is the simplest part of the process. Your app meets all the criteria: it is designed well, but simple; accessible, but not invasive; unique, but useful to the average user; and overall, a productive asset to any workspace. You've created and prepped; now it's time to submit.

The purpose of the App Directory team is to monitor the kinds of applications that are shared across the Slack platform. Slack users expect a standard of innovative, communicative, and collaborative apps that the App Directory team works to maintain. If your app meets the preparatory requirements, you'll be admitted into the exclusive group that is the Slack App Directory. The App Directory appears as in the following screenshot on your desktop browser:

Figure 12.9 – The Slack App Directory through your browser

After you've completed all the preparation steps and checked everything off the checklist, it's time...