> Recruiting teams who use Greenhouse can get hiring manager approval for new job postings and candidate offer letters.
Sure, why not, i'll hire someone with a single click in Slack. And maybe then post a party parrot emoji. Crushing it!
Like any messaging app, Slack has value precisely because it segregates small, ephemeral messages from the large, persistent ones in my email. It lets me tap into a stream of what's going on right now without obstructions. Trying to shoehorn in these great wads of HTML which don't require immediate attention detracts from Slack's value, rather than enhancing it.
While I agree that Slack's value proposition is tangential/complimentary to e-mail, the more that comes out it sounds more and more like Slack want's to replace e-mail/reinvent business communications.
Oh, they absolutely do, no doubt about it. Same way Twitter wants to be more than a way to post short messages. In both cases, there's a inescapable tension between what it needs to be to be useful, and what it needs to be to be successful.
You assume that everyone is hiring six figure developers. If you are hiring part time staff, at a rate of one per week, this makes a lot more sense.
Also makes sense to approve expenses. Right now all that stuff happens in another app which sends me an email which launches a browser which asks me to login which shows me the same button.
I actively look for SaaS apps that have slack integration.
We've been using this internally as the integration was developed. Having a message continue to change to show updates is super useful, and is a nice way to avoid spamming a channel with changes / cuts down on the "noise".
So, we use PagerDuty, which is one of the listed integrations. I just created a test incident, but no buttons. (I've long wanted buttons on those integrations.)
Turns out we had an old version of the integration, on the Slack side. Removing that, and adding the equivalent integration on the PagerDuty side got it working.
I just hope these companies are not locked into Slack, but rather, embracing text interfaces more broadly. It's great to implement new UIs for your product if it means better engagement or conversion. Some of these integrations might actually see some heavy use.
I do hope the Slack terms of service are not onerous.
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Eventually we will build a Mobile application, but in the meantime this seems like a good quick hit value add.
I remote in often or work from different desks so this wouldn't be for me...
> Recruiting teams who use Greenhouse can get hiring manager approval for new job postings and candidate offer letters.
Sure, why not, i'll hire someone with a single click in Slack. And maybe then post a party parrot emoji. Crushing it!
Like any messaging app, Slack has value precisely because it segregates small, ephemeral messages from the large, persistent ones in my email. It lets me tap into a stream of what's going on right now without obstructions. Trying to shoehorn in these great wads of HTML which don't require immediate attention detracts from Slack's value, rather than enhancing it.
Also makes sense to approve expenses. Right now all that stuff happens in another app which sends me an email which launches a browser which asks me to login which shows me the same button.
I actively look for SaaS apps that have slack integration.
We were fed up to spend our time to switch between Slack and the web app.
That would actually be interesting.
Love the buttons.
I do hope the Slack terms of service are not onerous.