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@slajax - what are some of your favorite use cases for the platform?

Ruxandra here from the engineering team at CTO.ai. Thought I'd jump in and say we have some cool examples in our registry, covering automations with various products offered by the popular cloud providers, as well as workflows around creating, managing and destroying Kubernetes clusters, and so much more: https://cto.ai/registry.

I certainly have a soft spot for the K8s ones especially as I helped build them :-)

(cto.ai employee here) The obvious ones are any basic CICD operation that you might want to trigger from Slack, i.e: pull code, build code, deploy code. The second use case that comes to mind is treating the platform as a very quick way to build an all purpose SlackBot.

Why in my conscious mind would I ever wanna do something like this?

Especially that lately Slack has proven to be so unstable (lots of intermittent downtime). Meaning I would just lock my infra automation code in CTO.ai servers for... what?

That's an interesting question and I was wondering the same thing.

Sounds like if we set Slack aside, all that CTO.ai is really offering is buy-in into their platform w/ no clear value beyond the initial slackbot-like integration

Founder here - for our users, the initial value proposition of being able to deploy a Slack bot in less than 5 minutes without servers, is usually the starting point.

After that they start digging into our team features for Secrets, Configs, Logs and Events which along with our public registry gives them a significant feature set to work against!

Founder here - We recognize that Slack certainly isn't for everyone which is why everything also works in our CLI and also soon by public API. Slack have a great uptime and regularly stay above 99.9% uptime according to their status pages - that said, if you wanted to bypass Slack and still run cloud native workflows using CTO.ai, serverless-ly, we allow you to also do that via CLI or API. This means you could build your own client and just leverage us for inexpensive compute.

Thanks for sharing your feedback!

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