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  • Pom & Circumstance: Announcing Pombot for tracking time and productivity in Slack

    Jenn Schiffer - July 8th, 2016

    Recent communication apps, like Slack, have lowered the barrier of entry for the use of bots to increase productivity. There are many techniques that I, personally, have tried in the past for time management, but none that I ever ended up fully adopting. Despite that, I always have been fascinated with what my colleagues were […]

  • Announcing Chatter: a library for making interactive chat bots on slack and more

    Ben Alman - July 7th, 2016

    We’ve long been making bots with hardware, now we’re making them with software too! They started as simple one-off “report bots.” Basically, helpful commands that anyone in our Slack could use to show useful information like who’s out on a given day, or how much vacation time we’ve taken. We also made a bot where […]