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Ask HN: Value of a custom slash-menu service for Slack?

1 pointsby sstradlingover 8 years ago
I built a customizable, context-sensitive menu module in another Slack project, and I&#x27;m thinking of spinning it out into a separate app. Essentially, it would let any team set up a custom internal menu (help, docs, contact info, onboarding), callable via &#x27;&#x2F;menu&#x27;, without having to build or host their own bot. The menus are multi-level (use IM buttons to navigate paths like main menu -&gt; help -&gt; contacts) and can be set to serve different content to different roles&#x2F;groups.<p>The question is whether menus are a problem anyone needs solved? We have menus in Slack apps to help with app-specific stuff, but would teams get use out of having team-specific menus?<p>I&#x27;m trying to decide if it&#x27;s worth spinning the module out into a separate service (Menus-as-a-Service - we can make MaaS a thing!), or if this would just turn into Slackstore clutter.

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