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Ryan Hoover

Kittybot by Product Hunt - A friendly feline that delivers new things to your Slack 😸

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Ryan Hoover
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We just launched our first Slack bot. A few people in the community have made awesome PH-powered bots already, like @hellobrent’s Product Slack which sends you the day’s top upvoted posts and @suruwat’s Cowboy bot that gives you the ability to search Product Hunt within Slack. We decided to extend Topics, which we launched a few months ago, and create a bot to help makers, reporters, investors, and teams stay up-to-date with what’s launching in their industry. Add Kittybot to your Slack here and select one or more topics you’d like to follow, including Bots, Internet of Things, Drones, Virtual Reality, Developer Tools, Venture Capital, Open Source and a bunch of others. Eager to get everyone’s feedback! P.S. we’ll send a PH Swag Pack one to discover the cat-related easter egg. 😸
Ian Mikutel
@rrhoover Awesome idea @rrhoover How was the process developing a Slack bot? Any plans to bring it to other bot channels like Messenger or Skype? 😺
Andrey Nikishaev
@rrhoover @hellobrent @suruwat that really nice)))
Alex Hunte
@bentossell @rrhoover We are loving this topic too. Totally converted to Slack and love integrations (and bots) that make it even more useful.
León Hernández
@rrhoover @hellobrent Does this bot monitor for someone hunting your URL? That would be an amaaaazing feature for Kittybot!
Ryan Hoover
Maker
@ianmikutel -- we're definitely considering it. We built the bot specifically for Slack, a place where people communicate with their team. In comparison, Facebook Messenger is very different. It's more about communicating with your friend and family. If and when we expand to that platform, we'll likely introduce different functionality for that audience and context. @leonfhl -- not at the moment but we've talked about adding URL monitoring!
Chris Calmeyn
Product Hunt everywhere! And you get a Product Hunt bot, and you get a Product Hunt bot!
Jayne Bayquen
@calc lol yesss!!!!
Aditya Shirole
Interesting take on a Product Hunt bot. Definitely makes it different from the other ones and it has very nice use cases.. I love the /cats slash command 😍
Ryan Hoover
Maker
@aditya_shirole YOU WIN! That's the easter egg I hinted at. Please shoot me an email (ryan at producthunt.com) with your address and we'll send you a Swag Pack. 😊
Aditya Shirole
@rrhoover i hope you ship to India 😉
Ryan Hoover
Maker
@aditya_shirole we got it!
Dan Flanegan
@rrhoover @aditya_shirole definitely need to intro a /meow command ;-) Good stuff!
Yoshitaka Masuda
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Char
How do I invite Kittybot to different channels?
Char
It looks like there's no way to re-add if you have removed it accidentally :( I want to re-adopt the Kittycat.
Andrew Torba
Bots, bots, bots! Patiently awaiting the FB Messenger version. Loving the Slack version until then. Great work! Love the /kitty command! 😻
Troy Ruediger
😱 My mind is about to explode! Everyone knows Slack and Product Hunt are two of my favorite things and then you guys go and do something like this! Whatttttt!
Mark Watkins
also any reason this isn't installable from the Slack App directory?
Carlos Roso
I installed it, then uninstalled it. Then tried to install it again but it's only saving preferences from the PH install page, not reinstalling it again.
Abhijeet S. Sutar
Product Hunt everywhere!! Web, Browsers Extensions, Apps, Mac Menu bar tool, now bot on Slack, What else you want :)
Dan Flanegan
I just setup the Kittybot to send VR related news right into our #Research channel on Slack. Hopefully this means I'll never have to manually look for VR items through Google ever again ;-)
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