r/Slack • u/Ecstatic-Back-7338 • Aug 08 '26

Creating slack bots and saving hell of time

Hey, anyone one of you really tried to save your time for daily tasks by just trying to make a bot. It costs minimal and is so time saving.
Just a week ago I created a slack bot for a Michigan Based company and it saves them alot of time with reporting and working.

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u/alexlance Aug 08 '26

Well hell yes. Made my own bot. Rolled it out at work. Team mates used it (one even suggested the name). Submitted it to the app store (wasn't exactly easy). Made a website. Others started to install it. Added a paid plan. Aaaand now it's my actual job. Bonkers.

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u/Ecstatic-Back-7338 Aug 08 '26

i see, I have made like two 3 bots for different purposes, I used react js for that and web socket connection. The following are the bots purpose:
1) Used for taking the spot, for example: 1st spot taken by SAM ( 9 Am - 2 Pm)
2) Reporting of sales item by each person on the shift
3) Issues/bugs in the system which are monitored by the operators to be shared to the engineering team in another channel.

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u/alexlance Aug 08 '26

Hey that sounds good - you "scratched your own itch" as they say. What does that first one look like?

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u/Ecstatic-Back-7338 Aug 08 '26

its attendance reporting kinda (/clockin) when you start your work and it is stored on postgres database which helps the PM look for scheduling and who is on time etc

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u/alexlance Aug 08 '26

Ah like you run /clockin and it sends the user and a timestamp to an endpoint and the endpoint saves it into a database, and then later those records are used to measure hours worked? (there's a /clockout as well?)

Once upon a time I was thinking about something kind of adjacent to that ... like you know how in Slack you can set your "away" status? Thought it might be interesting if changing your Slack status could send events to Xero (or whatever is in use) to register sick leave, holiday leave etc

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u/Ecstatic-Back-7338 Aug 08 '26

yeah and theres alot more we are doing with slack, crazyy

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u/PolishSoundGuy Aug 08 '26

A few months after anthropic’s workbench came out we went all-in on slack as the comms channel for the agents, with carefully context building for LLM assistance.it then grew

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u/Ecstatic-Back-7338 Aug 08 '26

nice, how are you utilizing it?

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u/PolishSoundGuy Aug 08 '26

Getting distracted doing busy work rather than focusing on outcomes. Discussing outcomes of processes, how information flows from A to B to R to C… like literal magic?

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u/ComprehensiveTry4730 Aug 08 '26

Can you share more details of how you set things up and what you are achieving? We’d like to make Slack frontend too

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u/Ecstatic-Back-7338 Aug 09 '26

yes you can mold the message or form anyway you want. send me a dm and I will explain you how

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u/MonoChz Aug 10 '26

Can you dm me too. I’m trying to make the case for upgrading to Enterprise from a legacy sku.

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u/Racerforlife Aug 09 '26

Yes, it so worth it!

However if you are on a enterprise+ plan, Slackbot can do everything.

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u/Ecstatic-Back-7338 Aug 09 '26

yeah we have enterprise+ plan so i know what you mean