The risk is lower when you're not actually competing directly with that platform. For instance, if you're building a Twitter client reliant on the Twitter API,

The risk is lower when you're not actually competing directly with that platform. For instance, if you're building a Twitter client reliant on the Twitter API, that's a bigger risk since you're directly competing with Twitter. Unless Rootly is grossly doing something negligent, the chances are extremely low that Slack will not allow Rootly to build a Slack app.