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Understanding OAuth scopes for Bots
Learn how use request scopes using OAuth
Create a Slack app and authenticate with Postman
Testing your app is almost effortless using this handy HTTP request tool
Design an Expense App with Block Kit
Learn how to design an expense reporting app using home tabs, modals, and messages.
Building a home for your app 🏡
Learn how to create the App Home view and use the modals
Hello World, Bolt ⚡️ - Building your very first app with Bolt
Building your very first app with Bolt, the official Node.js framework for Slack app development.
Submitting apps to the Slack App Directory
A voyage through the app submission process told from the developer's perspective
Make your Slack app accessible directly from a message
Developing action-able app with a message action
Building contextual search experiences using Block Kit and Node.js
Learn how to rapidly make visually rich experiences on Slack using Node.js and Block Kit.
Testing shared channels compatibility with Steno
Prepare your apps for shared channels through mocking and more
Using ngrok to develop locally for Slack
How to solve the chicken and egg problem of setting up a functional development environment
Sending your first Slack message using Webhook
Say hello to the Slack app world in minutes. No baggage, no OAuth.
Understanding Slack OAuth using Node.js
An intro to creating a Slack app and installing it on your team... Node.js style
Message Buttons with Node.js
Build a basic Node.js app with interactive buttons
Building a sentiment analysis bot with IBM Watson and Raspberry Pi
A fun project to analyze emotions of each message!
Creating an AWS Lambda Function and API Endpoint
Let go and let Lambda
A style guide for slash commands
Slash commands make your users feel powerful. With a wave of their hand, they can summon an action and do the special things your app does. Learn how to wield this magic.
Your first slash command and custom integration
If you want to start somewhere, may as well start here
Handling events from the Events API using AWS Lambda
Amazon's Lambda is a perfectly polite event handler
Storing, retrieving, and modifying file uploads
Use the Files API to build amazing integrations that allow you to quickly and easily interact with uploaded files.

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Case Studies

Interviews and profiles of the developers behind successful Slack apps.

Meet the mind behind Chatlio
The obvious choice at the time was, and still is, Slack. That has completely been validated by Slack's growth over the past two years.
Bots you can count on: meet the developers behind Statsbot
A discussion with the developers behind the popular analytics vehicle, Statsbot.
Optimizely
Guru
Woobot
Behind the scenes of /todo
We interview the developer behind the successful /todo Slack app.
The most popular penguin in town: meet Kip!
Thousands of users start thousands of conversations with Kip each month.
Doodle Bot

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Guides and articles from across the web

We're thankful that so many people in our developer community are taking the time to write guides, tutorials, and heady think pieces about working with the Slack platform.

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Building a simple bot using Python in 10 minutes
A walkthrough guide of building an onboarding bot with Python SDK
Common Bot Misconceptions
Are all bots born the same?
Everything you ever wanted to know about unfurling but were afraid to ask /or/ How to make your site previews look amazing in Slack
How Slack presents helpful information about URLs
Serverless Slash Commands with Python
A step by step tutorial on how to build slash commands with Python on AWS Lambda
Building slash commands on Google Cloud
Learn how to quickly host a slash command with node.js on Google Cloud
Build an infinitely scalable* Slack app in 5 minutes
Learn how to quickly deploy a Slack app in the cloud using Architect
Which API is right for your Slack app?
A cheat sheet for getting started with Slack's APIs
Designing conversational interfaces for Slack --- Lessons learned
Lessons learned building Moodz personal assistant Slackbot
Hard questions about bot ethics
What are the rules that govern these our new simulacrum friends?
Removing Friction Between Feedback and the Customer
Build a customer feedback bot using AWS Lambda and SNS
/foodme: an intro to slash commands in node.js
Learn to program slash commands with a magic rock
Building Your First Serverless Slack App on GCP is so Easy
The simplest and cheapest way to build your first Slack app and run it with zero administration
Building Admin-Approved Apps
How Slack used message buttons to simplify a common workflow
Simple Kicker Status and Reservation System With Slack Integration
Build an office-space game table reservation system with Raspberry Pi and Slack
How to build a Slack app
Just starting out? Here are some tips from a veteran Slack app developer
Build a serverless Slack bot in 9 minutes with node.js and stdlib
Learn how stdlib makes building a Slack bot simple
Migrating to the Slack Conversations API
How one developer migrated from legacy methods to the Conversations API
Bots as a Prototyping Tool
Leveraging the Events API to meet the needs of many teams
Building an onboarding bot in Ruby using Slack's Events API
Learn how to build a simple but effective Ruby onboarding bot user, navigate OAuth, & subscribe to the Events API
Slack and Salesforce Integration: Authentication
Tips on integrating Slack with Salesforce via OAuth
Working with interactive message menus in Python
It doesn't take much code to handle message menus in Python and Flask
Creating a Slack Command Bot from Scratch with Node.js & Distribute It
Learn how to summon in channel HTTP Status Cats while learning the basics of slash commands and working with web APIs
Build a Slack Bot with Node.js on Kubernetes
This guided tutorial takes around 45 minutes to complete. Botkit is invovled.
Sending Connection Notifications to Slack from Google Compute Engine
Sending Slack notifications when someone signs in to a Google Compute Engine instance
Scaling Slack Events in Node
Leveraging the Events API to meet the needs of many teams
Creating serverless Slack commands in minutes with Go & Up
Use AWS Lambda, Go, and a tool called Up to start responding to commands quickly
Building Slack Bots in Swift
A primer for using Swift to build a bot user using the RTM & Web APIs
How Manifestly implemented Sign in with Slack
A practical Ruby walk-through using Sign in with Slack as your identity provider
Host your Slack Bot easily with Recast.AI
Learn how to build, host, and train intelligent bots
Introducing Introbot for Slack
"In less than 3 days we redesigned and completely rewrote Introbot with Events API."
How to Release Slack Bot
Why you should develop on Slack
Running a Slack bot on AWS using coldbrew-cli
Learn how to easily deploy your Dockerized bots on AWS, examples included
Slack client for Commodore 64
What can you do with a C64, a Raspberry Pi, 6502 assembly, node.js & the Slack API?
Ask these 5 questions to build a successful chatbot
Starting with what outcome do you want for your users?
How to Build Your First Slack Bot with Python
Clear instructions for Pythonistas
Chatbots: Your Ultimate Prototyping Tool
Tips on a process of building conversational bots
Relax: Scale Slack Bots with Ease
How to stop worrying about scaling websockets
Creating Slack Slash Commands with AWS Lambda
A step by step guide to quickly handling slash command invocations using AWS Lambda & node.js
Week 1 of my app in the Slack App Directory
The developer of /todo talks much ado about the Slack App Directory
Building a Product That is a Bot
5 lessons on building bot product
What Installing 15+ Slack Bots Taught Me About A Great Onboarding Experience
"Onboarding is one of the most important elements of a product's design."
Our experience in the Slack App Store Gold Rush
It's launch time for Priceonomics
Workplace reinvented: RealityHack #3 comes to a close
Learn how developers are finding novel ways to integrate Estimote location beacons with Slack
Why we built Relay, our Slack App
"I think entire teams would love to have this kind of transparency into user activity/engagement"
Low friction, High delight onboarding via Slack
"We wanted user on-boarding that was simple, low-friction and 'high-delight'"
Slack Your Data, Why We Created The Lookerbot for Slack
"Why doesn't the data appear in the conversation?"
The 36 chambers (#channels?) of chat
Enlightening read on writing bots for the enterprise

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