Slack has been creating a unique social graph, unlike:
Facebook is for your friends and family
Twitter is for people you admire
LinkedIn is for people you've worked with before or met at an event
Slack is for people you work with today
When users login via Slack, sites can now connect people with their team. Quip, one of their launch partners, is a perfect use case for this (see here).
Product Hunt overlaps with professional and personal interests. Perhaps we should add a Sign in with Slack option. ๐
More details comparing it to Facebook Connect by TechCrunch's @ingridlunden and @joshconstineright here.
@rrhoover can't say this was unexpected. Seemed like a foregone conclusion the second you signed up for your second Slack team or integrated your first App or Bot with them. And totally agree about the social graph, or as some have said, THE professional social graph(s). When people ask me what's so special about it, I just bring up the multiple examples of interacting with top SMEs on the fastest growing industries from leading orgs and companies by just saying hi, in a casual and private atmosphere.
Add to that the ability to authenticate with multiple teams and different creds from the same interface on any device, well, how can you beat that? It's the product. A damn good product. (The people there aren't so bad either!)
Sign-in with Slack is a great feature, and we're proud to have partnered with them for the feature launch. It enables us a http://www.smooz.io to offer a shared workspace between two slack teams, including shared channel and todo list
We had a blast building Quip's all-new Slack integration, launched TODAY. With Quip for Slack, you can add documents, spreadsheets, and checklists to your Slack team. Best of all, Sign in with Slack makes the team set-up process a breeze! Thanks to @sean_a_rose and the whole team at Slack for the deep collab that make this possible. https://www.producthunt.com/tech...
Love it!
If you are dying to check out Slack but aren't part of a company that uses it, feel free to join the Slack community I started at http://www.learnslack.com.
Been waiting for this for quite a while! ๐ฅ
The way email is set up we haven't had a way to do any form of single sign-on with internal applications that we develop. Slack is used by the entire company and will now allow us to eliminate the need for multiple accounts.
Hi, we partnered wit Slack and integrated the button into https://slackline.io for the launch.
There are some things and caveats to consider when integrating it, so I wrote a quick post commenting on those: https://medium.com/@ernesto_jime...
Hopefully it'll be useful :)
This is a great move by @slack - They are doing a great job creating a platform that lends itself to becoming a place where people live.
I love that I can use it to communicate with my team, order a lyft, start a hangout, import a feed of the social posts I care about, and even use it as a real-time marketo alert platform.
Fact: I <3 #Slack!
I can't tell you how many nights I woke up in a cold sweat, clutching my Apple Mouse, crying out loud, "Why can't I authenticate with Slack? I authenticate everything into Slack, but they just take, take, take. I, no, we are building our lives around Slack. We're even bringing our bots too. Why don't they just take my info, and give me a token? Then they can have all of me. ALL OF ME!" So yeah, I'm happy.
On the serious tip... If this saves my future users one less step with authenticating a 3rd party API/service with my 3rd party Slackbot(s), making that process more seamless, well, I'm going to fly out there to a MeetUp to hug people.
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