Thinking about doing an Integration with Slack

Has anyone else considered this?

All I really want is updates to tickets and boards to show up in the chat channel we are all hanging out in.

My main question is, why isn't there a simple way to have YouTrack programmatically notify me of changes?

Looks like my choices are either do something with CORS hooked into the page that would post to Slack or either use Jabber or email to get the notifications then write some code that pulls them out and sends them on to Slack?

Hope I am missing something. Looked at the API documentation pretty extensively.

Thanks.