How to develop an amazing serverless app for slack

Building Your First Serverless Slack App on GCP is so Easy

The simplest and cheapest way to build your first Slack app and run it with zero administration.

Soliman ElSaber
Level Up Coding
Published in
5 min readJan 15, 2020

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Slack is one of the biggest platforms in the world. It is a very helpful tool for collaboration between the team members. Using slack became normal for the software teams around the world.

However, there is always something more you can add to any platform in the world. The Slack platform team knows that! That is why they allow you to develop apps, bots, and add-ons to provide more collaboration. A lot of the software tools have integration with slack. A lot of companies build their software to easily work with Slack. More than that, there is big business in building and integrating with Slack.

Do you love coffee?

Coffee is one of the main fuel for developers, it boosts their productivity most of the time. You can find a detailed explanation about it this article: Productivity secret of a web developer: Coffee [9 types].

So, we will build a Slack app that will send a notification on the #general channel to invite the team for a cup of coffee in a prescheduled time.

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