How to Integrate Slack with Launchpad

Slack is a great platform for team communication, it is a collection of chat rooms, both public and private. It helps confine all your team communications to one place. Slack also provides an API to let you interacte with it, so i have to decided to write a simple app using Flask to integrate Slack with Launchpad using its new webhooks feature.

Launchpad & Slack logos

Deploying to Heroku

You can check the full steps in the README file

$ git clone git@github.com:daker/launchpad-slack.git
$ cd launchpad-slack
$ heroku create
$ git push heroku master
$ heroku open

Once installed and everything is configured, things will start working like a charm :

Slack chat Slack Slash command

Contributing

Of course of you can contribute fixes and improvements, how to do it ? easy :

  • Fork it
  • Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
  • Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
  • Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
  • Create new Pull Request