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Slack has launched an app directory and is investing in services that make Slack a core part of their process.
Slack and its VCs want these developers to make Slack more useful and convenient with apps for doing all sorts of things in the workplace.
Earlier this week it further opened up tools to developers that allows them to make Slack bots more interactive with drop-down menus.
Not surprisingly, Mayfield doesn't see this as additional set of activities, so much as a helper tool to make Slack users more productive.
Benefits like these will make Slack even more useful to the enterprise and help Slack further push its revenue model (which is in part based on how often employees use the service).
The imminent release of voice and video chat could make offices noisier, but it will certainly make Slack more of a comprehensive communication solution rather than a tool plugged into a suite of other products.
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That quick growth has made Slack an acquisition target.
It will back enterprise software developers making Slack integrations part of their core product.
This makes Slack a uniquely high-leverage place to be a VP of Product.
"We're really making Slack a kind of great connective tissue for even the largest organizations," Weiss said.
And secondly, it helps Slack seek out more interesting services that are built to work on Slack by design, making Slack itself a more useful and sticky service for its own paying customers.
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