‘Sign-in with Slack’ challenges Facebook
Slack introduced a ‘sign-in with Slack’ API for developers, which allows users to sign into apps or services with their Slack conditionals. Facebook, Twitter, and Google offer sign-in buttons too, and Facebook arguably is the most popular way to sign-in or up to a new service.
Facebook and Twitter’s sign-in buttons are consumer facing options to keep users from having to fill out a new profile for every app they want to use. While Google’s choice is a consumer facing option, it also offers Google Apps so you could sign-in to services through your work email, of course, only if you’re employer was using Google Apps.
Slack’s sign-in button is the first enterprise option where thousands of companies already use the service. At db, we use Slack to communicate on a daily basis. Instead of having to sign up and into dozens of other services like Trello, Asana, WordPress, and other enterprise apps I could simply use Slack to sign in. The buttons meant for teams, where Slack writes it “keeps teams connected across the many apps they use for work.”
The API is available now, and Slack is working with Figma Kifi, OfficeVibe, Slackline and Smooz in addition to Quip. Tell us in the comments below if you’re going to use Slack to sign into your apps or if you’re going to just signup and sign into them the old school way.