Automating Badge Assignment for Beta Testers in Slack

Question about programmatically adding badges in Slack for our beta testing program - We want to automatically tag users and give them a badge in Slack when they join the beta group in our backend. Currently doing this manually, but we're building UI controls to let users opt in/out. We're calling it our Guinea Pig program and planning to give participants special badges plus some swag (t-shirts, stickers, hats) when they join. Is there a straightforward way to do this?

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Matt Mireles
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Our beta testing community is incredible - it's been an amazing resource for catching bugs before we release to all users. There are so many issues we wouldn't have caught through internal testing alone. Our beta users have all kinds of edge cases - weird monitor setups, exotic multi-monitor configurations, docked computers, unusual microphone arrays - there are just so many hardware scenarios that would be practically impossible for our small team to QA test with our limited resources.
Zach Hawtof
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Hey Matt Mireles, we have an API that we are looking to deliver very soon for this that would allow you to give a badge in the community from an external event. You can see the pre-Alpha shape of it here https://api.tightknit.dev/ and Andrew Claremont might be able to give you a word or two on his experience when developing a demo with the Glide team. Now, we are looking to productionalize our APIs soon. I’m going to add you to our own pilot group here in this community 🙂 that is focused on API usage
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Matt Mireles
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Sweet!