[criddell]

This is neat, but I guess I don't really understand the problem this is solving.

The company I work for uses Slack and I like it a lot. However, I've never found myself wishing that I could get a stock quote (or do a trade!), map an address, or play hangman there. Similarly, I think I could do a lot of that stuff from Emacs, but I never have. I use Emacs to edit text and I use Slack to chat.

It might be because of the number of times I've been burned by plugins that break after I upgrade the host application, but I'm a little conservative when it comes to extensions and plugins. I tend to stick to default settings. The Slack instance we use has only one integration enabled - Giphy (animated gif responses).

For the people here that are excited about this, is there a function in particular that is a killer function for you?

[ksenzee]

The stock quote and hangman plugins are really just demos. Where services like this really shine is when you integrate them with your existing systems. Starting a Jenkins build from your Slack channel is pretty nifty.

[nixgeek]

But this would need setting up to interact with Jenkins? Assuming yes, at that point, why not just hop on over to the Slack App Directory and pick up something there?

e.g. https://slack.com/apps/A0F7VRFKN-jenkins-ci

[pmlnr]

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