One of my closest collaborators is a teammate far away — I'm in New York and Emily Withrow is in Chicago.
We stay connected chatting on Slack. But recently Emily asked if I could regularly update my Slack status to indicate what I was doing at the moment, like coding, meeting, eating. It's the kind of thing colleagues in New York know just by glancing toward my desk.
Changing my Slack status isn't hard; remembering do it is. So I built a bot to change it for me.