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Slack Bot Business Tutorial: From zero to $25k per month

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Re: Slack Bot Business Tutorial: From zero to $25k per month

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Post by TobbenTM »

alexxtomsk wrote: post #2

Hi folks! Just in 8 months, we grow our Slack bot from zero to $25,000/mo. Moreover, it keeps growing like crazy. Based on our learnings we prepared a step-by-step guide on how we did that. I hope it will be useful to you. Feel free to ask me questions here.

We've seen plenty of people going all in building their business on a platform they don't control, then getting mad when the platform they depend on changes how things work.

With that said, are you guys also targeting other platforms than Slack?

I'm sure MS Teams, Discord, etc provide the same foundations for an even larger reach?

Re: Slack Bot Business Tutorial: From zero to $25k per month

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Post by pavel_lishin »

TobbenTM wrote: post #3
alexxtomsk wrote: post #2

Hi folks! Just in 8 months, we grow our Slack bot from zero to $25,000/mo. Moreover, it keeps growing like crazy. Based on our learnings we prepared a step-by-step guide on how we did that. I hope it will be useful to you. Feel free to ask me questions here.

We've seen plenty of people going all in building their business on a platform they don't control, then getting mad when the platform they depend on changes how things work. With that said, are you guys also targeting other platforms than Slack? I'm sure MS Teams, Discord, etc provide the same foundations for an even larger reach?

Do enough companies use Discord to make it worthwhile? I thought that for any sort of semi-corporate use, it was either Slack, Hipchat or Teams.

Re: Slack Bot Business Tutorial: From zero to $25k per month

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Post by greysteil »

TobbenTM wrote: post #3
alexxtomsk wrote: post #2

Hi folks! Just in 8 months, we grow our Slack bot from zero to $25,000/mo. Moreover, it keeps growing like crazy. Based on our learnings we prepared a step-by-step guide on how we did that. I hope it will be useful to you. Feel free to ask me questions here.

We've seen plenty of people going all in building their business on a platform they don't control, then getting mad when the platform they depend on changes how things work. With that said, are you guys also targeting other platforms than Slack? I'm sure MS Teams, Discord, etc provide the same foundations for an even larger reach?

FWIW, I'm not sure I'd recommend that. For things outside your control, you've got to deal with the world as it is, not how you would like it to be. Slack own the game for chat bots right now - I think the advice you got from Des Traynor to double down on it is spot on.

Re: Slack Bot Business Tutorial: From zero to $25k per month

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Post by alexxtomsk »

TobbenTM wrote: post #3
alexxtomsk wrote: post #2

Hi folks! Just in 8 months, we grow our Slack bot from zero to $25,000/mo. Moreover, it keeps growing like crazy. Based on our learnings we prepared a step-by-step guide on how we did that. I hope it will be useful to you. Feel free to ask me questions here.

We've seen plenty of people going all in building their business on a platform they don't control, then getting mad when the platform they depend on changes how things work. With that said, are you guys also targeting other platforms than Slack? I'm sure MS Teams, Discord, etc provide the same foundations for an even larger reach?

That is so true. We were building for Telegram before Slack and was very disappointed business-wise about it.

Now we're fully focused on Slack and it helps us in building a great product for the narrow use-case.

However, of course, we're looking for ways to expand our market.

I'm not sure about Discord (how many of you guys are using it?), but MS Teams, Google Chat, and Stride are the other players that in my opinion will be able to compare with Slack in terms of features and market size.

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