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Re:Electron 3.0.0 by rudedogg on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @07:03PM (#18020064)
> Writing Slack as a native app would be a massive pain.

If it was allowed I'd write the native macOS app for them. I'm sure it'd pay off selling it for $5 or $10 in the Mac App Store

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Re:Electron 3.0.0 by danShumway on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @07:51PM (#18020410)
Do it then: https://api.slack.com/

Slack APIs aren't perfect, but they're good enough to allow 3rd party clients for terminals, Emacs[0], and the like. I've never dug into it because I avoid Slack in general, but I think the biggest hurdle right now is just user authentication.

That's a pain, and does limit your audience, but maybe you'd still find some buyers on HN.

[0]: https://github.com/yuya373/emacs-slack

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Re:Electron 3.0.0 by benbristow on Monday September 24, 2018 @03:19PM (#18060557)
OAuth2 is as standard as it gets. Any language worth it's salt has ready-made libraries for it. There's tons of documentation and guides online too.

Not sure why that's an issue.

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