104 Stories To Learn About Slack

Let's learn about via these 104 free stories. They are ordered by most time reading created on HackerNoon. Visit the to find the most read stories about any technology. Slack /Learn Repo App/service used to communicate with other people. Usually used by businesses and other groups. 1. Build Better Notification Experiences With Omnichannel Analytics In this article, we talk about omnichannel analytics, why analytics are hard for notifications, and what we believe is needed to empower PMs. 2. The Best Slack Groups for Data Scientists to Join The online data science community is supportive and collaborative. One of the ways you can join the community is to find machine learning and AI Slack groups. 3. Salesforce Bought Slack - WTF?! Microsoft is just too big to fail - no matter what they do. Slack was just too small to succeed - no matter how much they tried. 4. The 5 Best Video Games I Played in 2020 This Slogging post is about the 5 best video games of 2020 that helped me get through the year with my sanity in check. 5. 3 Awesome Trello and Slack Alternatives Everyone Should Try Since the start of the pandemic, the tech world has been scrambling to take formerly offline practices and processes online. Sometimes that has meant making better use of existing tools, like Slack. On other occasions, we’ve all been forced to find new ways to do things. 6. 5 Slack Apps for Startups to Save Time Spent on Repetitive Work I remember when Slack first came out. Me and my team of engineers were frustrated that the higher-ups were making us migrate away from IRC. Fast forward to 2020 and now I'm a member of 15 different workspaces. 7. How to build a Slack App more reliable then Slack When I started working on a start-up nine months ago, this statement didn’t satisfy me or my co-founders: 8. Cloud Gaming: Will we Soon See a "Netflix" for Video Games? Cloud gaming is a very exciting prospect within the gaming industry. While we've seen the lukewarm reception of Google Stadia, the idea itself is relatively new. Just like Netflix was rejected at first, perhaps cloud gaming is the future of the game industry as a whole. 9. The Best Companies Built On Top Of Slack Entire companies are being built on top of the worlds fastest growing software. 10. Why Slogging? Slack Work for Blogging Slogging is an app that makes Slack work for Blogging. You add it to your Slack community, and turn great conversations into timeless Hacker Noon stories. 11. Why Does Music Have such an Emotional Effect on Humans? This Slack discussion by Richard, Austin, Arthur and Anna Bleker, and I occurred in Hacker Noon's official #slogging-beta channel, and has been edited for readability. 12. Writing a Slack Bot that Responds to Action Commands I recently wrote a slack bot that responds to action commands (like /ech yolo ) but I ran into some trouble finding exactly how to do this, so I’m documenting it here for other peeps to find. The exact error I hit was /echo failed with the error "dispatch_failed" . 13. I Chose Serverless for My New Startup — Should You? I have seen cloud tech change a lot in my 10 years of experience. AWS and GCP were not the default choice a few years ago, and I have worked in companies that bought and installed physical servers. What a nightmare! And this is why trying out serverless was the natural next step for me. I think everyone should give it a shot, and I wanted to share my experience! 14. Is Social Media Doing More Harm than Good? We rely on social media to stay in touch with loved ones around the world and run our businesses. But is this tech doing more harm than good? Let's discuss. 15. Will Video Games Replace Film and TV? This Slack discussion by Patrick Lee, David, richard-kubina, Dane, Linh, and I occurred in Hacker Noon's official #slogging-beta channel. 16. How to Build a QR Code Generator for Slack with Just 7 Lines of Code Hey, remember QR Codes? 17. 10 Best Slack Apps for Remote Work In 2021 Plus a bonus sneak preview at #11. 18. Slack vs. Discord: Which One Is Better for Business? Today, we are going to compare Slack and Discord - perhaps, most popular team communication platforms and figure out what is the difference between them and which one can better solve your daily business tasks. We will also share from our experience, which tool we find better suited to specific Upsilon’s needs. 19. We Built A Lightweight Project Management Tool on Slack We communicated via Slack and Trello almost exclusively for the past three years at OneBar. Recently, we’ve discovered a way to reduce communications to just Slack, and the team loves the new, lighter process! It worked for us, and there’s a great chance it’ll work for you too! 20. 12 Must-Have Tools For Freelancers Being a Freelancer is tempting for many reasons, but mostly because you can do what you love and choose the projects you want to do. You can work with clients you want to work with and there is nobody breathing behind you expecting from you to make more money for them. 21. How We Made a Slack App in 11 Days Hey, everyone! We, the Indie Hackers SPB Community, organized a one-week Bootcamp: in our free time, we built a product from scratch and launched it on Product Hunt. We got the #3 Product of the Day badge and over 30 installs of our app in the Slack Workspaces. Now, I want to share our experience. At the end of this article, I will share our Notion checklist, that we found extremely helpful for the launch preparation :) 22. Is Daylight Savings Time Stupid? - Explain it Like I’m 5 This Slack discussion by richard-kubina, Dane, Linh, Arthur, and I occurred in Hacker Noon's official #slogging-beta channel, and has been edited for readability. 23. Keeping Our Ducks Aligned With Slack A lot of remote teams start using Slack as a watering hole for getting everyone together to discuss what's going on and what'll happen next. Having all of these discussions happening in the #general channel is way too noisy. So teams start creating a bunch of random channels devoted to a specific purpose. Here are some of the channels we have at Hacker Noon. 24. How Our Slack Community Grew to 1,000 Users and 115,000 Messages in 7 Months This article describes how Airbyte's Slack community grew to 1,000 users and 115,000 messages in just 7 months, with a focus on user success. 25. Tutorial For Supabase And Next.js Fans On How To Build A Slack Clone Creating a Slack clone with Supabase and Next.js 26. The Journey From A Failed Video Game To $26 Billion Dollars: The Slack Story How Slack Went From An Unsuccessful Video Game To A $26 Billion Dollar Company 27. How to Build a ChatOps-Bot with Slack and Kubernetes ChatOps allows you to manage your DevOps tasks using chat based interfaces. Learn how to build a simple bot to control a Kubernetes cluster using Slack. 28. The Hacker Noon Diaries: 8 Books that Changed Our Lives This Slack discussion by Natasha, Linh, Dane, Anna Bleker, Michael Ulrich, Austin, Nataraj, David and I occurred in Hacker Noon's official #slogging-beta channel. 29. How we built ToDoBot for Slack in 3 days Technically, it was four days, but we were working on it in between taking customer calls and fixing OneBar bugs so, let’s call it three ;) 30. 5 Best Collaboration Platforms for Developers The most effective way to maximize the productivity of your development team is to use collaboration tools. Software developers these days are not expected to work full-time without even contacting or communicating with each other for long. If there is no collaboration among the workers, your million-dollar worth of a product cannot sustain since it’s been developed in a communication-restrictive environment. 31. We bridged the gap between Slack and in-house management without paying the hefty cost Originally published on melvinkoh.me 32. Web Design Mistakes that Just Won't Die In this thread, the Slogging community discusses the most common web design mistakes that just won't die. 33. Introducing TL;DRs by HackerNoon Jeferson Borba talks about his work with AI-generated TL;DR snippets of HackerNoon stories. 34. Walter Haas is Bringing Trust to Online Product Discovery with GIST GIST is a social network built around what you and your friends buy. It's the digital version of the ultimate product recommendation: social proof at scale. 35. The Slack Problem Space and its Constraints IMHO Slack doesn’t scale. The more people in a Slack workspace, the noisier it becomes. What should my startup build as an alternative? 36. The Markdown Test As an investor, I am focused on what I think of as ‘technical tools.’ That is, tools that either help developers build or deploy code, or tools that help pseudo-technical users do developer-like things. There are some edges for this where it’s hard to delineate what is/isn’t a tool for a technical user, especially in the collaboration space. In fact, much of my thinking here stems from the question, “so does this include stuff like Slack?,” which comes up a surprising amount in conversation. 37. How the Slack Acquisition Helps Vancouver’s Tech Scene Salesforce recently acquired Slack, a company founded by Stewart Butterfield, for $27.7 billion. The company officially announced the acquisition on December 1, 2020. 38. Building a Slack Integration for Your SaaS Notification System In this post, we offer details for developers who are planning to build a Slack integration for their notification system. 39. Sprint Planning Minus Estimation Efforts This week Product School Slack's community members uncovered ways to properly plan product sprints. 40. The Slack Outage is a Wake Up Call For All IT Orgs Slack took quite a beating during and after the service outage that happened last Monday morning. Here’s a small sample of the headlines (before they were updated) that come up on a simple news search of Slack: 41. Analyzing the 12/31/2022 Slack Security Incident On December 31, 2022, Slack reported a security breach that affected some of its customers. 42. Here's the Quick Guide You Need to Solve All Your Git Issues! The best way to become a better developer is to make contributions easy. What better way to do that then mastering git and Github 43. How Slack's Huddles Gave Us The Boost We Needed To Launch Remote working makes it hard to have the spontaneity that offices can bring. Slack Huddles managed to bring that to one team's successful bid for ProductHunt 44. 5 Things The Coronavirus Taught Me About Life Slogging has the potential to be a content writer's best friend. One use case I'm very interested in exploring is the creation of listicles at scale. With Slogging, maybe community conversations are just one side of the coin. 45. Building a Slack App with Native SFDC Integration We’re going to showcase how you can edit Salesforce data entirely within Slack. 46. Using the Events API to Build a Slack Bot I’m a huge fan of automating working processes. I try to automate everything and save my coworkers time. 47. 7 Tools To Help Manage Your Remote Teams Better Now that your teams have acclimated to working remotely every day during the workweek, they've probably started getting into some semblance of a groove. They might even have increased their productivity to unheard-of levels. 48. What is the Best Children's Book You've Ever Read? Some of the best children's books of all time voted on by Hacker Noon staff and contributors. 49. Does Love Exist? (Slogging Insights) Does love exist or is Nicolas Sparks full of it? Is it something beyond science and human understanding? Today, we dive into that very question. 50. 3 Essential Jira Plugins for Digital Product Management in 2022 These are three great Jira Plugins (add-ons) to boost your digital project management in 2022. Improve your Jira workflows and interactions with your teams. 51. Slack's Connect DM Feature Has A Security Flaw Slack recently rolled out its "Connect DM” feature that turned out to be a blunder. Know more about it here. 52. As a Gaming Developer, Which Error-Monitoring System Should I Use? Not all bugs are created equal and you may want to prioritize fixing errors that are impacting superfans or your revenue-generating customers. 53. Slogging Editor Updates: New Formatting Added for Bullet Points, Bold, and Italics This Slogging thread by richard-kubina occurred in hackernoon's official #slogging channel. 54. Nostalgia for Nerds: What is your favorite game system of all time? My favourite game console of all time is the Nintendo DS, such a versatile machine with tons of games. 55. Craft Culture by Celebrating Deployments Building a healthy productive engineering culture is hard and just deploying frequently with continuous deployment is not enough. I'm going to show you how you can use a carrot, not a stick, approach to take continuous deployment to the next level by celebrating team values with deployments. 56. What are the Best Dev-friendly collaboration Tools for Remote Teams? The right tools for remote developers can help engineers overcome most difficulties. 57. This Thread is Being Recorded This Slogging thread by David, Natasha, Amy and Limarc occurred in hackernoon's official #general channel, and has been edited for readability. 58. 7 Slack Hacks You Need to Know for Better Work Feel like your slackin' in the Slack skills department? These Slack hacks and tips will help you improve the way you work. 59. 5 Productivity Hacks Achievable by Integrating Slack and Zendesk Analyze the various productivity automations that Slack and Zendesk can achieve and how you can easily enable the integration flawlessly 60. Bringing Your Tinder Date to the Company Picnic: 6 Tips From Techloaf Nice. You’re actually going to do it. You scored a hot date with a lady and you’re bringing her to the company picnic. Nothing like fun, sun, and the staid monotony of trust falls to really let your freak flag fly.Who said you can’t mix business with the off-chance of pleasure? Here are six Loaf tips on surviving your Tinder date at the company picnic. 61. How to Build a Slack App That Changes Salesforce Records Within Slack 62. Lyft Case Study: How to Ship New Product Features 40% Quicker Lyft realized its mobile crash reporting tool was hindering its ability to deliver a consistently positive experience to its users. 63. Building a Slack App with Native SFDC Integration This post is a continuation of our series based on a video series explaining how to build Slack Apps that integrate with Salesforce APIs. 64. 12 Ways in Which Slack can Enhance Your Team’s Remote Work Culture In this article, you’ll find 12 amazing Slack tips for remote teams. 65. A Q&A With Slack's Rukmini Reddy on Data-Driven Mentorship, Career Paths, and Belonging Hear Rukmini Reddy's story - Slack SVP of Engineering and Twilio Developer Searchlight Honoree 66. Thulani Introduction: Slack Bot For Investment Management This is the story of Thulani, a chatbot I designed to make my life easier and also help me understand ChatOps more. I wish there was more to it than that, I really do, but this post is a guide to what tools and resources I used to understand chat ops more, and how you can use chatbots to solve (hopefully better) problems. 67. How to Scale Organization We hear about scalability all the time: Zillions of data, billions of hits on a website, millions of tweets, etc. With everything around us scaling to never seen before, the limiting element in all this is organization. Can we apply the knowledge of scaling software to scaling an organization? 68. Perks of Having Data-Centric AI in the Corporate World Get smarter at making your corporation effective by improving the accuracy of AI systems. Using data-centric approaches elevate machine learning models. 69. 5 Effective Ways to Maximize Slack You Probably Didn't Know You already know what Slack is. It's that software that helps you do your job better. It eases communication but there's more to Slack than what you know. 70. 6 Best Communication and Collaboration Software for Businesses Read this article to learn about the best business communication collaboration software, such as Troop Messenger, Mattermost, Microsoft Teams, and others. 71. How to Use MuleSoft to Send Slack Notifications When Data Changes In this article, I’ll show how to build such a tool (using MuleSoft, Heroku, and this guide) to send notifications to Slack when new content is entered. 72. What is Slogging? - A New App by HackerNoon Have you heard about Slogging? What about Slack Blogging? If you have been hiding under a rock, worry not. In this article, you'll find all the information you need to know about Slogging and how it can save your company's conversations and repurpose them for your company’s content marketing efforts. 73. Gaming Lingo for Dummies Gamers have their own language and jargon. In this thread, our community shared a concise guide on gaming lingo that will turn you from bot to pro in no time. 74. Should You Ever Build an App on Someone Else’s Platform? We've developed a Slack bot, but does it make good business sense to build an app on a platform wholly controlled by a bigger company? 75. 10 Features For A Successful Community: An Open Letter If you’re like us, you probably have some unread red-dot notifications in your Slack sidebar. Work-related, a few are from social groups or communities 76. Writing Your Own Slack App in 5 Steps If you already have a handy tool that you like to add to your daily environment, creating a slack app would be a great way to do it. 77. Ask Me Anything About Japan Japan is home to many things and is one of the longest-lasting civilizations in the world. There are many things the country has to offer. 78. Easy Guide to Turn Slack Threads into Verdant Hackernoon Articles Slogging is a simple app that lets you turn conversation threads on Slack channels into beautiful drafts on Hackernoon ready for our 3 million monthly readers. 79. Superstore, Netflix, and VPNs: Should we Bring back the LaserDisc? This Slogging discussion is about Netflix via VPNs, DVD collecting in Japan, and Studio Ghibli. 80. A Little Dropbox, Bugsnag, and a Lot of Visibility During Error Investigation Out-of-the-box ANR detection and workflow integrations make debugging precise and actionable, while bookmarking and custom alerts help teams stay focused. 81. Best Applications That Will Make Remote Work During Coronavirus More Comfortable Things have changed very rapidly for a lot of people. Just a few months ago nobody would’ve imagined they would have to stay at home for a prolonged period of time, and even though warned, preparation for a global scale epidemic was pretty poor. Right now, when the spread of Covid-19 is at its peak, a lot of people have to get used to self-isolation, which means they can’t go to work to offices anymore but have to work remotely. 82. How Slack Does Notifications and Does It Well Slack is one app that Product Managers can learn a lot from because of its many integrations and malleable notification preferences. 83. apibeats: Get Notified on Slack When The API Changes apibeats is an API maintenance platform that lets backend and frontend developers collaborate, and notifies teams on Slack & Email when the API changes in any way. apibeats provides a complete environment for you to interact with your APIs. It lets you create collections of endpoints and watch them for uptime/downtime and changes in structure, test your collections by making requests without writing any code and document your API collections. 84. The Tech We Wish Santa Had Brought us Last Christmas The Hacker Noon Tech Christmas Wishlist: What Tech do you want Santa to Bring? 85. Save and Search Through Your Slack Channel History on a Free Slack Plan Sometimes, we might not be able to afford a paid subscription on Slack. Here's a tutorial on how you can save and search through your Slack history for free. 86. What's one popular game/franchise that you could never get into? Some games are great, but they just don't click with us for whatever reason. Here are the games we could never get into. 87. The Future Of Work Is Here: How Slack Is Revolutionizing the Virtual Office! Know how Slack is revolutionizing the future of work and helping to improve the productivity of employees. 88. How One Feature From a Failed Startup Can Become a Billion Dollar Idea I will go through a summarized story of a well-known startup and share my notes from this lesson. 89. Should $CRM Buy $WORK? This Slack discussion by me and Hang occurred in hackernoon's official #slogging-beta channel. 90. 9 Games We Love on Mobile: From Angry Birds to Occidental Heroes The rise of mobile games converted many non-gamers into gamers, within the past decade. 91. Top 50 Slack Apps For Developers in 2022 We've categorized the best Slack apps for developers. Whether you are working in teams or you just want some bot for yourself we've got you covered in this post 92. Slack Will Reject Your App: 5 Reasons From Someone Who's Been Through The Process, TWICE At a time when businesses are increasingly relying on Slack for day-to-day operations, the Slack App Directory is thriving. These days, there are Slack apps for everything: from polls to team recognition, to daily standups, to promoting inclusive language. There has never been a better time to be a Slack user. 93. 16 Apps and Technologies that Make our Remote Working Lives Easier In this Slogging thread, the HN team dives into the apps and tools we use on a daily basis. 94. Do We Really Need a Like Button? - The Pros and Cons of Social Media Social media is here to stay. Yet, not everything is beneficial. In this slogging thread, the technology channel discussed the pros and cons of social media. 95. Slogging Insights: Does Technology Improve Sports? Though many sports fans would like to see their sacred games untouched, the various developments brought by tech are undeniable. 96. Reanimating the forgotten skill of brainstorming: 4 ways to brainstorm remotely + bonus tips This post tries to resurrect brainstorming and suggest new ways to brainstorm remotely with bonus tips relevant in a tech-driven and remote work setting. 97. Is the United States the Best Democracy in the World? In this Slack discussion, Dane, Austin, Linh, and Jamie Finney educate me on the intricacies and faults of the US democratic system. 98. How To Automatically Transition Jira Issues Using a Github Webhook What's this all about eh? 99. Evolution of Multiplayer Software: From Games to Tools ⚡ Have you heard the news? Epic Games, the developer of a wildly successful multiplayer game Fortnite, has just announced a massive $1.78 billion funding round. Want to know what it has to do with collaboration software? 100. The Best Podcasts and Soundtracks to Listen to During Your Workday The HackerNoon staff and community talk about their favorite tech podcasts, playlists, and even video game soundtracks that get them through the day 101. Crypto Adoption in Europe Lags Behind Rest of the World In this slogging thread, our community discusses their thoughts on crypto adoption and the current European ranking on the topic. 102. The Worst Gift Ever? What to Avoid this Holiday Season The HN team reveals all their bad holiday experiences and talk about the worst gifts they've ever received. 103. How To Connect Heroku Server with Slack Heroku makes it easy to integrate with the Slack business communication platform. Three available options are presented in this article by @johnjvester 104. The Pros and Cons of an Import Stories Function This Slogging thread by Limarc Ambalina, Nesha and David Smooke occurred in slogging's official #software-development channel, and has been edited for readability. Thank you for checking out the 104 most read stories about Slack on HackerNoon. to find the most read stories about any technology. Visit the /Learn Repo