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Re: Statsbot: Google Analytics Bot for Slack

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Post by aroc »

ilyaeck wrote: post #14
Inthenameofmine wrote: post #2

Chat is definitely becoming the default way of operating small to mid-sized agile teams (Slack specifically for us). It's fascinating how much more productive we have become through it. We're already moving towards completely distributing the team, all remote. 2016/17 seems to become the year when remote-default teams become not just possible, but easier than co-located teams. The tools are almost there.

Can you please elaborate on how chat is making you more productive. To me, many Slack bots are essentially command line tools - so yes, if command line makes you more productive , that's understandable. But is there more to it?

I agree with that chat apps make me and my team more productive, and I work at a developer centric organization where we build analytics tools (and I'm also a developer). The reason I'm more productive?

Unfortunately, not everyone uses the command line. Not everyone is comfortable with it. Additionally, even if you are (like me and my team), it's not collaborative. If I run a query in my team's room, they can all see the results and we can easily discuss it. Did I mention on the go with Slack for my phone? Can't do that with CLI.

Slack also supports link embedding, images and more. All things not supported by CLI.

Re: Statsbot: Google Analytics Bot for Slack

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Post by cwilkes »

ilyaeck wrote: post #14
Inthenameofmine wrote: post #2

Chat is definitely becoming the default way of operating small to mid-sized agile teams (Slack specifically for us). It's fascinating how much more productive we have become through it. We're already moving towards completely distributing the team, all remote. 2016/17 seems to become the year when remote-default teams become not just possible, but easier than co-located teams. The tools are almost there.

Can you please elaborate on how chat is making you more productive. To me, many Slack bots are essentially command line tools - so yes, if command line makes you more productive , that's understandable. But is there more to it?

It's a command line that everyone can use without installing software locally or sshing to a machine.

Also everyone can see what you type and the response. Cuts down on the "did you run it with the dash k flag?" And "what was the response" back and forth.

To me that's the killer feature. It is searchable and so you can look back in time and see others that ran similar commands and what the response was.

Re: Statsbot: Google Analytics Bot for Slack

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Post by kayoone »

Slack is something i value highly right now, yet i would never have thought it took off like it did. IRC has been around for decades, bots that could post any kinds of info to a channel as well and for a user IRC is not that much harder to use than slack, but it's definitely more nerdy. So i kind of feel sad that open stuff like IRC didn't really ever become mainstream and now we have a closed platform that at some point will belong to one of the big tech corps and people will start to move off of it again.

Re: Statsbot: Google Analytics Bot for Slack

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Post by keydunov »

josephmx wrote: post #24

This would be great if I could share the reports, eg in a private chat saying "@statsbot status" or have the reports post to a group

Hi, you can invite statsbot to channel, just go to any channel and type /invite @statsbot. Then you can text @statsbot status and bot will post report directly to this channel. Or even more you can schedule report to be posted automatically to a channel - just text `@statsbot schedule status`.

Re: Statsbot: Google Analytics Bot for Slack

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Post by mikemockup »

shostack wrote: post #11

I like tools like this, but I had a few suggestions: "Statsbot does store basic analytics profile information for configuration and authentication information for querying your data. It never stores metrics." Would really need to know more about this before I connected you to my company's analytics account. There's a ton of highly-confidential data in there that I could result in me being fired or worse if I gave tha…

Hey shostack! You are absolutely right! We will do some edits in "terms of usage" to convince companies that their data are processed securely.
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