How We Added Slack Webhook Notifications to SendRec

You share a product demo with a prospect. Five minutes later, they watch it. You don't find out until the next morning when you check your email. If your team lives in Slack, you want that notification in Slack — not buried in your inbox. You want to see it pop up in real time so you can follow up while the video is still fresh in the viewer's mind. SendRec already had email notifications for views and comments. We added Slack as a second notification channel that works independently — even if you have email notifications turned off. Why incoming webhooks Slack offers several integration methods: OAuth apps, bot tokens, and incoming webhooks. We chose incoming webhooks because they're the simplest path for self-hosters. An incoming webhook is just a URL. You create one in your Slack workspace, paste it into SendRec's settings, and you're done. No OAuth flow, no bot to install, no scopes to configure. The webhook URL is the entire integration. This also means zero Slack-specific infrast