Hip Chat, Gitter, Yammer... what else? Slack. There are very few products with the proverbial hockey stick like Slack has. There is a reason for this. Come learn why this tool is so popular not only with developers and devops but with the whole team.
2. Who am I?
Developer -> Evangelist -> Program/Product
Mobile Program Manager @
Slack Enthusiast
Contact Info:
Twitter: @abe238
info@abediaz.com
3. History
“We came to the conclusion that
Glitch was never going to be the
kind of business that would have
justified the $17.2 million dollars in
venture capital investment [that
we had] … So we decided to shut
it down without knowing what we
were going to do next.”
Ahem…remember
SharePoint’s story?
6. Adoption Numbers Don’t Lie
750,000 people now use Slack daily, including users in 60,000 teams
135,000 of those people are paying for Slack, adding up to $12
million in annual revenue
Slack users send 300 million messages to each other a month
The average Slack user is connected for more than nine hours a day
and spends more than two of those hours in active usage, such as
reading and writing messages
“FASTEST-GROWING BUSINESS APP EVER” - FastCo
9. Slack’s Key Value Proposition
All your team’s communications in one
place.
Completely searchable (incredibly fast).
On every device (iOS, Android, Windows,
MAC)
24. Bots
Complete customization control
Remove repetitive tasks from the team
Democratize control
Made possible by Webhooks (incoming and outgoing)
25. Hubot
Made popular by the Github team
Runs JS and CoffeeScript
Needs to be hosted (typically heroku)
Great community (lots of plugins and support)
Best Getting Started guide: https://github.com/michikono/slackbot-
tutorial
29. And that is what is called ChatOps
“Bringing the work you are already doing… into the conversations
you are already having” - @jfryman
Made popular by the StackStorm guys
Event Driven Automation
33. Direct Customer Feedback
Slack Button
Get direct feedback from customers straight into Slack
Twitter
Slack’s Twitter Wall of Love
Integrate with ZenDesk
and other tools.
34. IFTTT & Zapier
Augment the available integrations by creating your own
E.g.
Monitor Dropbox for changes to our vacation policy document and
broadcast in Slack.
Google Spreadsheets – Fill a spreadsheet and let sales/marketing know
when someone tweets about our product in Slack.
Slack the Company’s Stock price every time we beat earnings.
Weather - If there is snow in the forecast, let everybody via Slack so they
can leave early.
35. Other
Drupal – post from a from straight into Slack room
(https://www.drupal.org/project/slack)
Office 365 Calendar – Meeting starting now
(https://ifttt.com/office_365_calendar)
Stripe – Let the team know how much growth in sales this month via
Slack.
LaunchKit – Get your App reviews straight into Slack.