How to launch when the app directory rejects you • Hacker News Board

jsmoov wrote: post #34

Looks like the post ended up being removed for no other reason than the title :/ Would you mind upvoting the new submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23780314 Thanks for the comment!!

Please limit these mass identical msgs to ur app only. Plz don't spam HN.

Cool idea. Clearly there's a market for it. But stop trying to force ur way onto the HN top. Makes U look desperate and attaches a negative feeling to U and ur app/use-case (Hardly wht U want)

Re: How to launch when the app directory rejects you

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Post by ryandvm » Thu, Jul 09, 2020, 2:30 PM UTC

Went through a similar experience with our own Slack app. We had created a fairly popular app called "Export" for exporting channels from Slack in a variety of formats. It was an approved Slack app for several years before being summarily expunged from the directory when Slack changed their terms of service.

Surprisingly, not being listed in the Slack App Directory is not a death sentence. It just means you have to invest in alternate discovery channels.

Speaking of, the link for Slack Export is:

https://export.fountstudio.com/

Re: How to launch when the app directory rejects you

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Post by throwaway744678 » Thu, Jul 09, 2020, 2:41 PM UTC

warp wrote: post #12

If the slack app store rejected it, how can they still sign up customers for it? So I guess the slack app store is just a directory, and you can still integrate with slack without being listed in their app store? The article would be a bit easier to understand if it explained this.

It's mentioned explicitely in the first message sent by slack (rejecting the listing of the app). First paragraph of the article.