[cj]

There are a ton of Slack apps popping up.

Are they typically side projects? Or on the VC / startup path?

(This is not a dig at Slack apps, just curious whether people see a big market here)

[rohitv]

It is probably because of the $80M fund (http://slackhq.com/post/134878632730/launch-platform) Slack set up for developing apps on their platform.