So I guess the slack app store is just a directory, and you can still integrate with slack without being listed in their app store?
The article would be a bit easier to understand if it explained this.
However, when I submitted a new app as an unverified listing last year, I received a rejection email stating they were only "looking for apps with at least 25 installs". I attempted to appeal (based on their marketplace system's text directly stating there was no minimum user count), but I received no response, and none of the ~dozen engineers I personally know at GitHub were able to help.
I can still make my app available, and implement a third-party billing system, but without a marketplace listing it's much harder to gain exposure and users.
All in all, developing a GitHub app was an extremely frustrating experience, especially since GitHub extensively makes internal use of my open source project upon which my GitHub app was based.
At it's worst it turns into a checking in conversation with some critique that would be better suited for a phone call or in person meeting.
Advice to CEO's/Managers: The how are things going slacks do not feel like a personal chat. Create a culture where people will ask for help and guidance when they need it and let them do their work.
The old way has too much noise and not everyone gets all the messages. The new way seems to have solved those problems. The new way becomes the 'standard' way of doing things. Then the new way has too much noise and users are forced to adopt noise-reduction. Then the process repeats...
That's why companies have posters on notice boards, posters in kitchens and toilets, company-wide e-mails, department-wide e-mails, an intranet, e-mailed newsletters, an in-house magazine, mandatory slack channels - and now, a tool to send slack PMs in bulk.
It's meant for starting multiple private exchanges using the same opener, with one click. An automation tool, basically.
Surprisingly, not being listed in the Slack App Directory is not a death sentence. It just means you have to invest in alternate discovery channels.
Speaking of, the link for Slack Export is:
However, as Slack positions itself as the new email, and once we remember that email has had bcc since forever, this app/feature no longer appears so sinister anymore.
Would you mind upvoting the new submission:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23780314
Thanks for the comment!!
Cool idea. Clearly there's a market for it. But stop trying to force ur way onto the HN top. Makes U look desperate and attaches a negative feeling to U and ur app/use-case (Hardly wht U want)
On the other hand, I have to command the author for their lead research and a nice blog post. Way to go :)
