Slackathon MCR

What is a Slackathon?

Slack is a messaging tool for teams that recently announced a new platform API and a $80 Milllion fund to support developers.

This slack-hackathon is aimed at making integrations with the Slack API. At the end of the two day event we will pick our favourite projects based on these categories:

+ Most useful

+ Least useful

+ Best use of Slack bot 

What can I do with Slack's API's?

+ Send data into Slack with incoming webhooks

+ Invoke actions outside of Slack with commands

+ Build a Slack bot

What has been done before?

To see what other companies have produced, see this list: 

https://slack.com/apps

https://api.slack.com/community

Where is the developer documentation?

Slack have produced a developer kit to help you get started with your integration.

Full docs here: https://slack.com/apps/build

Amazon has a useful Lambda product that is well suited to event based compute time (docs here).