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In the early years of my startup my co-founder and I faced a challenge familiar to many young tech companies: Our engineering resources were spread thin, with competing priorities and an ever-changing roadmap. Automation helped us 

How Zapier helped this founder keep engineers focused on product development

Collaboration is vital to an efficient business, but getting team members on the same page can result in time-consuming emails and meetings. Stay effortlessly efficient with this integration, which automatically posts a new message to a specified Slack channel whenever a new webhook is received at a specified URL. Keep your teams in touch without any added clicks or keystrokes.

Webhooks simply POST data (or JSON) to a specific URL every time we see something new. Webhooks can also accept data (or JSON) to kick off a workflow in Zapier.

Triggers when a POST, PUT, or GET request is made to a Zapier URL. Gives the request body unparsed (max 2 MB) and also includes headers.

Catch Raw Hook

Triggers when a POST, PUT, or GET request is madeto a Zapier URL.

Catch Hook

Triggers when a request to a URL returns new entries.

Retrieve Poll

Fire off a custom request by providing raw details. Very flexible but unforgiving.

Custom Request

Fire off a single GET request with optional querystrings.

Fire off a single POST request as a form or JSON.

POST

Fire off a single PUT request as a form or JSON.

Slack is a platform for team communication: everything in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. Offering instant messaging, document sharing and knowledge search for modern teams.

Triggers when a new message is posted to any public channel.

New Public Message Posted Anywhere

New Channel

Triggers when a new message is posted to a specific #channel you choose.

New Message Posted to Channel

Triggers when a custom emoji has been added to a team.

New Team Custom Emoji

Triggers when a new file is uploaded to your workspace.

New File

Triggers when a username or highlight word is mentioned in a public #channel.

New Mention

Triggers when a new message is found that matches the query.

New Message From Query

Triggers when a new message is posted to a specific #private-channel or multi-dm.

New Message Posted to Private Channel

Triggers when a Message is pushed from Slack.

New Pushed Message

Triggers when a reaction (aka reactji) is added to a message in a public #channel.

New Reaction Added

New Saved Message

Triggers when a new Slack user is created / first joins your org.

New User

Finds a Slack message using the Slack Search feature.

Find Message

Finds a user by matching against their email instead of their username.

Find User by Email

Find User by ID

Finds a user by matching against their real name instead of their username.

Find User by Name

Find User by Username

Adds a reminder for yourself or a teammate, just like the `/remind` slash command.

Add Reminder

Invite an existing User to an existing Channel. You must be a member of the channel to invite someone to it.

Invite User to Channel

Posts a message to the specific #channel you choose. Message delivery can be scheduled for later.

Send Channel Message

Sends a direct message to a user or yourself from the Slackbot. Can also schedule a message for later.

Send Direct Message

Create Channel

Post a new message to a private channel you choose. Can also schedule a message for later.

Send Private Channel Message

Set Channel Topic

Update basic profile fields such as name or title

Update Profile

Sets your Slack status to the given text and emoji.

Set Status

Invite a new User to your Slack workspace. Uses legacy tokens.

Invite New User

Custom Actions (Beta)

This is an advanced action which makes a raw HTTP request that includes this integration's authentication.

API Request (Beta)

Post new messages to a Slack channel when new webhooks are caught

This automation sends an email from Gmail whenever a new webhook is received. Zapier will automatically send an email as soon as it detects the webhook at a specified URL. Stay up to date, without any extra effort.

One of the most popular email services, Gmail keeps track of all your emails with threaded conversations, tags, and Google-powered search to find any message you need.

How Zapier helped this founder keep engineers focused on product development

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