Ask HN: What are some clever Slack hacks/integrations?

2 points3stripe6 comments

The Slack API seems ripe for create cool feedback loops with other services. Know any good examples?

On a sidenote, I'm looking for a way to control Spotify via Slack :)

I think Spotify over Slack would be awesome in a work place... Anyone could add a track to the playlist that is going in the office.

Or the play que, I should say.

Or skip ('veto') a track

Having had a look, I couldn't see any easy way to do that with the Web API. But I think it would be awesome to allow voting for adding or removing songs to the que.

What about some Applescript to trigger key presses on the machine on the network running Spotify: mute, play/pause, next/prev etc

Yea, actually... That could work. Or using the (Albeit buggy) Spotify web client, to trigger button presses. That would then work really well with the other APIs.

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