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We're surrounded with a myriad of communication tools: email, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, and Snapchat, to name a few. Slack is a newer communication tool, borrowing IRC concepts and transcending them with an intuitive interface that allows countless customizations and integrations—from other communication tools to bots, Kayak, Google, Hacker News, and more. Slack glues together all of your favorite applications, and if there isn't something already available to fit your needs, you can hack your own solution.

We're surrounded with a myriad of communication tools: email, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, and Snapchat, to name a few. Slack is a newer communication tool, borrowing IRC concepts and transcending them with an intuitive interface that allows countless customizations and integrations—from other communication tools to bots, Kayak, Google, Hacker News, and more. Slack glues together all of your favorite applications, and if there isn't something already available to fit your needs, you can hack your own solution. This practical book provides you with hacks to use Slack efficiently and adapt it to your company and your community. It discusses Slack integrations, covering both IFTTT and Zapier. Going deeper into Slack customization, the book also shows how you can build your own applications and Slack bots by giving you some examples using different tools and frameworks to hack your custom workflow.

This practical book provides you with hacks to use Slack efficiently and adapt it to your company and your community. It discusses Slack integrations, covering both IFTTT and Zapier. Going deeper into Slack customization, the book also shows how you can build your own applications and Slack bots by giving you some examples using different tools and frameworks to hack your custom workflow. These custom hacks include:

These custom hacks include:Videoconferencing in your Slack channel

Videoconferencing in your Slack channelUsing Natural Language Processing to search flights

Using Natural Language Processing to search flightsCreating a Hacker News update

Creating a Hacker News updateOutputting your team's time zones

Outputting your team's time zonesCreating a slackbot to randomly select people for tasks

Creating a slackbot to randomly select people for tasksUsing Heroku to host a poker bot

Using Heroku to host a poker botDispatching customer support through Slack

Dispatching customer support through SlackOrganizing tournaments in your team

Organizing tournaments in your teamMaking your bot self aware

Making your bot self awareDesigning a plugin to create polls

Designing a plugin to create pollsCreating xkcd-style charts

Creating xkcd-style chartsSharing code snippets directly in Slack

Sharing code snippets directly in Slack