Creating a Slack App in Python on GCP.

Last week I chatted with someone working on an application to facilitate better 1:1s and skip-level 1:1s. What struck me most was the thought that it might be both faster and a better user experience convenient if this tool was implemented as a Slack application rather than a web application.

This left me with an interesting question: has the Slack ecosystem and toolchain reached a place where it's quicker and easier to use the Slack stack than the typical web stack?

With that in mind, I decided to spend some time e...