Maker here.
I use Slack with 24x7, and read HN almost everyday.
When I am chatting and inputting some url, beside the slackbot give me the page snapshot, I also want to get the HN item. Since HN are already decade year, the url should be hit very often.
And I also want to get the replies for my HN ID in slack.
And I also want to follow some interesting HN thread but without too much noise.
So it should be worthy to give a bot app to deal with such things automatically. Then the slack bot - @HN get real.
Hopefully HNBot can add you and your team two cent fun.
Thanks for your comment!