Self-Hosted Approval Workflows for Slack and Teams

Every delay has a cost. Waiting for permission in complex systems slows deployment, increases risk, and frustrates teams. Approval workflows should move at the speed of your conversations. That means running them inside Slack or Microsoft Teams — without relying on a cloud service you don’t control.

Self-hosted approval workflows give you complete control over data, speed, and compliance. No external API limits. No vendor downtime. No question about where your approvals live or who has access. You define every step, own the infrastructure, and keep sensitive information inside your private network.

Integrating Slack or Teams with a self-hosted backend lets you turn chat messages into structured approvals. A developer merges code, a product owner approves a release, a finance manager signs off on budget — all without context switching. Slack buttons or Teams adaptive cards feed directly into your own systems, triggering deployments, updating databases, or logging audit trails.

A fast approval resolves risk before it grows. A slow one creates bottlenecks. When you host your own workflow engine, you can scale to thousands of requests without latency. You can customize approval logic to match your real policies, chaining multi-step conditions, routing requests based on team, project, or priority. And because it's self-hosted, every millisecond of response time is under your control.

You also avoid vendor lock-in. You can swap out tools, change protocols, extend capabilities — all without breaking the link between your chat platform and your workflow system. Security audits become easier because the full pipeline is visible to you. You can log, encrypt, and store all approval data in your own way, not in an opaque external system.

Building this yourself from scratch is possible but costly. Maintaining it is even harder as integrations change and requirements expand. That’s where you can accelerate with the right tools. Hoop.dev lets you spin up a self-hosted approval workflow that connects directly to Slack or Teams in minutes. You own the stack, but you get to skip the heavy lifting.

See it live, self-hosted, and connected to your chat tool before your next standup. Visit hoop.dev today.