Re:Show HN: Slack-Native TODOs Right in Your Home Tab
by pacavaca on Thursday January 30, 2020 @05:11PM
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Hey, HN!
Slack has recently released its Home Tab (https://api.slack.com/surfaces/tabs). Basically, it's a dedicated page within the Slack app where your bot can build a pretty advanced UI (way beyond basic messages).
While implementing the Home Tab for our main product, I realized that - Hey! This could be a perfect place for all my TODOs to live. I'm part of Apple, Google and a bit of Linux ecosystems and there aren't too many apps that I use consistently across the board. Slack is one of them and I often just DM myself to store a quick note or TODO that I can later view somewhere else. Why can't there be a bot for that?
Said - Done! I and the team hacked together the ToDoBot in 3 days and published it in the Slack store for everyone to use for free. Please check it out and let me know what you think!
Slack has recently released its Home Tab (https://api.slack.com/surfaces/tabs). Basically, it's a dedicated page within the Slack app where your bot can build a pretty advanced UI (way beyond basic messages).
While implementing the Home Tab for our main product, I realized that - Hey! This could be a perfect place for all my TODOs to live. I'm part of Apple, Google and a bit of Linux ecosystems and there aren't too many apps that I use consistently across the board. Slack is one of them and I often just DM myself to store a quick note or TODO that I can later view somewhere else. Why can't there be a bot for that?
Said - Done! I and the team hacked together the ToDoBot in 3 days and published it in the Slack store for everyone to use for free. Please check it out and let me know what you think!