Show HN: I made a Slack app that publishes a channel to a public URL

#1

Post by apbailey » Sun, May 06, 2018, 11:39 PM UTC

Show HN: I made a Slack app that publishes a channel to a public URL
hello.echothread.com

Re: Show HN: I made a Slack app that publishes a channel to a public URL

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Post by apbailey » Sun, May 06, 2018, 11:41 PM UTC

I've been building this app for a few months. I spend all day in Slack and wanted a way to publish content to a public page. I've used it to liveblog conferences and events.

I hope you find some value in it. I'd love any constructive feedback and this is a new product and I'm still determining where to go with it.

Re: Show HN: I made a Slack app that publishes a channel to a public URL

#3

Post by fiatjaf » Sun, May 06, 2018, 11:49 PM UTC

Good idea.

I hope you find users for it, but I wouldn't know where to start looking. Maybe people who are already liveblogging.

There are also these public Slack channels from open-source projects and whatever. Maybe these people will be interested in having a public channel instead of asking every single visitor to create an account and possibly spam the network.

On the Stellar (the crypto-network) public Slack channel, for example, they were having a lot of problems with scammers and thinking about making the channel private, that would make it inaccessible for any interested casual visitor, a problem that your tool could solve.

Re: Show HN: I made a Slack app that publishes a channel to a public URL

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Post by apbailey » Mon, May 07, 2018, 12:22 AM UTC

fiatjaf wrote: post #3

Good idea. I hope you find users for it, but I wouldn't know where to start looking. Maybe people who are already liveblogging. There are also these public Slack channels from open-source projects and whatever. Maybe these people will be interested in having a public channel instead of asking every single visitor to create an account and possibly spam the network. On the Stellar (the crypto-network) public Slack chan…

Thanks for the thoughts. I plan to start talking to journalists who cover breaking news and live events.

And any organization that uses Slack but wants to publish content one way.

Re: Show HN: I made a Slack app that publishes a channel to a public URL

#5

Post by apbailey » Mon, May 07, 2018, 12:25 AM UTC

Here's a conference that a few attendees and I liveblogged using it: https://echothread.com/c/c57kakx1p

Re: Show HN: I made a Slack app that publishes a channel to a public URL

#6

Post by tuananh » Mon, May 07, 2018, 1:39 AM UTC

it's taking seemingly forever to load the example.

Re: Show HN: I made a Slack app that publishes a channel to a public URL

#7

Post by apbailey » Mon, May 07, 2018, 3:21 AM UTC

tuananh wrote: post #6

it's taking seemingly forever to load the example.

Thanks for letting me know. I’ll take a look at it in our monitoring software. Everything has been loading quickly for me.

Re: Show HN: I made a Slack app that publishes a channel to a public URL

#8

Post by deft » Mon, May 07, 2018, 4:30 PM UTC

This looks really cool. More and more OSS projects are using slack for coordinating development as well as providing support. This makes it faster and simpler than forums but removes all search engine indexing. Maybe your project could help solve that problem.

Re: Show HN: I made a Slack app that publishes a channel to a public URL

#9

Post by apbailey » Mon, May 07, 2018, 4:35 PM UTC

deft wrote: post #8

This looks really cool. More and more OSS projects are using slack for coordinating development as well as providing support. This makes it faster and simpler than forums but removes all search engine indexing. Maybe your project could help solve that problem.

That’s a great idea. Eventually I plan on introducing paid plans but I’d give a free premium plan to OSS projects.