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I don't quite understand why someone would use this instead of @general. Just to make it sound more personal?
It's meant for starting multiple private exchanges using the same opener, with one click. An automation tool, basically.
At it's worst it turns into a checking in conversation with some critique that would be better suited for a phone call or in person meeting.
Advice to CEO's/Managers: The how are things going slacks do not feel like a personal chat. Create a culture where people will ask for help and guidance when they need it and let them do their work.
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.
AFAIK Github apps work the same way. Additionally, you need to meet a specific number of customers (I think over 200) to apply to be listed in their market.
However, when I submitted a new app as an unverified listing last year, I received a rejection email stating they were only "looking for apps with at least 25 installs". I attempted to appeal (based on their marketplace system's text directly stating there was no minimum user count), but I received no response, and none of the ~dozen engineers I personally know at GitHub were able to help.
I can still make my app available, and implement a third-party billing system, but without a marketplace listing it's much harder to gain exposure and users.
All in all, developing a GitHub app was an extremely frustrating experience, especially since GitHub extensively makes internal use of my open source project upon which my GitHub app was based.
I don't like it when companies make you accountable to messages made on slack