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Nick Pfisterer
Botkit — Building blocks for building Slack bots
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Ben Brown
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We want to create tools and best practices that will enable a thousand bots to bloom. Botkit takes care of all the nitty gritty details of APIs connections and messaging protocols and gives developers tools mapped to how real people communicate like hearing things and holding conversations. We can't wait to see what kind of bots people create!
Cem Kozinoglu
@benbrown dudeee!! congrats! I remember talking about this when we were at Betaworks Notifications Summit. Wow! Great to see it live :) all the support and love from Slash!
Ben Tossell
Botkit was announced yesterday with The Slack Platform Launch alongside Slack App Directory and The Slack Fund. Looks like a really interesting way @SlackHQ is going. I think this is an awesome step for a company to continue innovating while it grows. We have April Underwood doing a LIVE Chat today who is Head of Platform at Slack :) Reminds me of the startup studio model and similar traits to how @betaworks ... works.
Chris McCoy
Any plans to design for, and aim for, a msg platform standard? How does Botkit work as a protocol for Slack, Ryver, Hipchat, etc?
Altryne
@chrisamccoy I think it's safe to use something that was designed as platform agnostic, like hubot instead of going for something that specific and hope they will enable it for other messaging services.
Eric Soelzer
Maker
@chrisamccoy Eventually, we'd love to branch out and enable bots for all kinds of messaging platforms. Right now, our small team is very focused on the Slack platform. Aside from supporting Botkit, we are also working on Howdy, our bot coworker for Slack teams!
Andrea Hill
Nice launch timing! Sending to folks now to check out!
Ryan Mac
I noticed the "brilliant bots" section of Slack App Directory was sparse. What types of bots are you seeing built with Botkit?
Adam Dexter
@benbrown @esoelzer - With the announcement of the Slack Fund and Slack App Directory do you think you'll be reconsidering launching Slack Wiki? Or perhaps there is a way I can build Slack Wiki with the help of Botkit?
James Campbell
So happy but so annoyed. Starting making my own thinking it wasn't out there and then found yours ! Thank you for making it :) Now to figure out what I can do with mine.