[davnicwil]

Ah this is extremely cool - having set up slackops by building bots on lambdas in the past, I can attest it's way more difficult and time consuming than it should be.

For an example of an unexpected issue you face - slackbots must give responses within 3000ms otherwise slack reports the slash command as failed. This means you have to do things like set up a proxy and worker lambda for anything that doesn't execute essentially instantaneously, and even then it sometimes fails to respond within 3000ms on cold starts.

A purpose built interface you can just get set up with a few clicks would be a great improvement. Hope the other cloud providers introduce similar services as well.

[davnicwil]

As an edit to the above, as pointed out in other comments, this actually only does unidirectional notifications - i.e. pushing notifications to Slack. This is the part that is already really trivial, with Slack webhooks.

I suppose this hooks into stuff like SNS and may not require writing code or running a server/lambda, but still, less useful than it first appeared. A service for easily setting up backends for conversational slackbots or slash commands would be much more exciting, in my opinion.