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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 alexxtomsk »

sireat wrote: post #4

Very impressive! For someone outside normal corporate culture who is actually paying for Slack bots? Middle level managers who have to administer daily meetings? It is amazing that being outside the corporate loop you were able to hit such a pain point.

I can quote our user: "My team are consisting of remote resources, and scheduling a standup suitable to all timezones was a nightmare. And it always ending up as a regular meeting not a standup. Standuply had solved that."

So, for remote teams it can be a huge problem even though it doesn't seem like that.

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

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Post by alexxtomsk »

matte_black wrote: post #12

Are you guys Slack users yourselves? Could someone really understand how to build a slack bot business without using Slack themselves?

Of course, we do use Slack. Also, we're very into Agile with deep management background. Here's how we came up with the idea insight.

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

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Post by bmelton »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #5
TobbenTM wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I think it depends on what you consider a worthy market -- My daughter, 16, doesn't know a single friend who doesn't have a Discord account. Moreover, the 'group chat' in subreddits is, more often than not, powered by Discord.

Of course, those users are probably using it for its free service, and aren't a terribly attractive market on their own, but if they're at all representative, there are a lot of people using Discord, so maybe a low-effort MVP to prove out the market might be worthwhile.

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

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Post by alexxtomsk »

bmelton wrote: post #14
pavel_lishin wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I think it depends on what you consider a worthy market -- My daughter, 16, doesn't know a single friend who doesn't have a Discord account. Moreover, the 'group chat' in subreddits is, more often than not, powered by Discord. Of course, those users are probably using it for its free service, and aren't a terribly attractive market on their own, but if they're at all representative, there are a lot of people using Di…

I think the problem (or should I say "the difference") with Discord is that they don't position it for business communications. However, the product is fully capable of doing that.

So there are some teams using Discord for business communications, but it's not the default use-case. You can prove that by looking at Discord bots on the market and feature requests at https://feedback.discordapp.com

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

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Post by swyx »

congrats on your success! Can we see your baremetrics panel?

I think for non technical founders you skipped a very important part of the story - how did you find your initial devs and how did you figure out how to work with them? how much should people set aside for this kind of thing? that really matters.

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

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Post by balls187 »

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.

How many people on the team?

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

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Post by ckastner »

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.

Not a question, but some advice: you might want to add a sentence or two to that page describing what Standuply actually is or does.

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

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Post by bdcravens »

sireat wrote: post #4

Very impressive! For someone outside normal corporate culture who is actually paying for Slack bots? Middle level managers who have to administer daily meetings? It is amazing that being outside the corporate loop you were able to hit such a pain point.

We use a similar product, and it works great for async "standups". Solve a problem well (I peek at our standup channel - I don't have to screw around with logins or config screens or dashboards), solve it simply (don't try to be Basecamp), and keep it cheap enough - there's a ton of opportunity there.
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