[d0m]

Looks like risky business to me since this is exactly what Slack is trying to do (Marketplace for commands)

[bdcravens]

Will we have the inevitable Twitter moment when Slack closes things up, and it becomes a crisis of unfairness for companies that built upon another?

[kedean]

I'm going to say yes. I thought it was common knowledge at this point not to base your entire service on the good will of another service? They're also banking on Slack not changing their API without telling them.

[bdcravens]

There were quite a few startups that built upon Twitter's API, and when access was taken away/limited, many pitch forks was raised here and elsewhere (to pretty much no effect)

[tarr11]

Yeah, this already exists. Slack hasn't added many commands to their marketplace, but if this is at all successful, they will.

Don't see how this lives as part of the Slack ecosystem. Maybe their goal is to become standalone.

[Aloha]

or they wont because it would add complexity to their product for features few customers need?