[mbrevoort]

Thanks, it's been really fun to create too :)

The most useful bot that we use internally is a deployment automation bot that orchestrates deployments and scaling in Amazon ECS. We are working to generalize and open source that bot.

In general, I think that bots on Slack will be boom or bust, but it's clear that Slack as a platform and Slack integrations are one of the key things that make the product special and successful. We'd like to give developers the best shot at making bots successful and useful in Slack.

Here is a super simple weather bot example that you can try if you want to see what the Beep Boop user experience is from the consumer side:

http://bit.ly/wittyweather

And here's the source: https://github.com/mbrevoort/witty-weather-bot/blob/master/s...