Slack Open Source Engineer Alissa Renz chats with Toast engineer and CEO Rea Loretta about building on the Slack API and her work with the Slack Community. As a software engineer with a specific problem to solve, Rea Loretta wasn’t thinking about scale, or branding, or enterprise solutions. She needed a communications tool that her small team could use to eliminate coding bottlenecks. So, she built one. In the years following, her Slack app known as Toast would become a must-have tool for software development teams around the world, including enterprise-level clients with 1,000+ engineer ..read more

Slack Developer Advocate Shay DeWael sits down with Erin Blaskie to explore the future of growth marketing in the post-COVID world Erin Blaskie was only six years old when she got her first computer, a Commodore 64 that her dad brought home for the family. When it came to computers, the Blaskies always seemed to have the latest and greatest, even if they weren’t, as she says, the kind of family that could afford it. Like a lot of people from our generation, Erin got off to an early start in the blogging realm. LiveJournal led to Open Diary, Open Diary to GeoCities, GeoCities to MySpace ..read more

An exciting opportunity for the Slack Platform Steve Wood is VP of product for the developer platform at Slack. Today’s the day! Slack is part of Salesforce. What does this mean? We’re still the Slack you know and love — now connected to the most open and interoperable ecosystem of enterprise apps and workflows. Read on to learn more. A transformed world of work Over the past year, we’ve embraced the power of flexibility. Every business in every industry now has to evolve to meet their customers, employees, and partners in a digital-first world. We know that with the right ..read more

In this first edition of our “On the Platform” series, hear from Wilhelm Klopp about what it takes to build a friendly enterprise-level app. On the Platform is a new series where we’ll host members of our platform community — from developers, to chapter leaders, to folks building their own enterprise business. I’m Shay DeWael, a Senior Developer Advocate at Slack, and each month I’ll chat with members of the Slack community about a variety of topics that surround their personal story and thoughts on building the future of work. Back in 2017, London-based software engineer Wilhelm Klopp f ..read more

Building a seamless app experience in Slack Connect At Calendly, we aim to make scheduling easy. You keep ownership of your calendar and time while sharing your availability with others, simply by sharing your Calendly link. But to make it as easy as possible, Calendly needs to be wherever people get their work done, and for many people, they get their work done in Slack. Slack has transformed workplace communication and made working together easier and more productive. We heard from our users and from Slack that now more than ever, people want the simplicity of Calendly scheduling ..read more

How Crossbeam upgraded their Slack app to supercharge partnerships in shared channels At Crossbeam, we make things for people that work in sales and partnerships — just the kind of person that is an ideal user of Slack Connect. Our users often join one another’s Slack channels to help work out deals, explore partnerships, and get context on target accounts, so we knew our Slack app had to be ready to deliver. When channels are shared between organizations in Slack Connect, a Slack app can no longer assume that all of its users work for the same company. Which meant that was extra im ..read more

Five ways to automate your everyday tasks in Slack At Slack, our focus is to make work simpler, more pleasant, and more productive. And a key way we’re bringing that vision to life is with Workflow Builder. In simple terms, Workflow Builder helps teams automate routine, manual tasks, freeing them to work on high-impact projects. Thanks to Workflow Builder, you don’t have to code to automate work. The only real constraints on what you can create is your own creativity — and we’ve seen so much creativity! Since the launch of Workflow Builder, more than 1M workflows have been created and us ..read more

How Nextup.ai uses Slack’s Socket Mode to connect on-prem Socket Mode connects on-prem software with Slack As Slack app developers, we create solutions that save time, increase productivity, and foster effective communication. Our most popular apps connect Slack to Atlassian and are used by all kinds of organizations — even the most security-conscious enterprise companies. Previously, connecting to on-prem systems were a challenge, but now Socket Mode makes it much simpler. Cloud is the future At Nextup.ai, the majority of our customers use our secure multi-tenant SaaS plat ..read more

Building an essential business on Slack A Tale of COVID19, Send SMS from Slack Clerk enables teams to send and receive SMS in Slack. At the beginning of 2020, our mission was to build the first billion-dollar business on top of Slack. As the world changed during a pandemic, so did our grand plans. Enduring digital transformation By early last year, our Slack app had won the Slack Hackathon, was featured on Product Hunt, and adoption was climbing. Then, the pandemic hit. We saw a significant decrease in the number of installs, so we feared the worst. Many of our customers ar ..read more

How we improved the security, scalability, and interactivity of our app In 2018, we released an integration between Stack Overflow for Teams and Slack. It’s now one of the most popular ways for users to interact with our platform, and we have been steadily upgrading it with new functionality based on feedback from customers. We’re pleased to announce that we’re releasing version three of our Slack integration with plenty of new features to reduce context and tool switching while streamlining the developer workflow. With this release (available for Basic and Business today, for Enterprise ..read more