Slack Bot

During the course of my exam/culminating season at the end of the previous school year, I spent some minutes each day creating a Slack Bot. I am happy to say that I created my first-ever Slack bot that can respond to messages, has 6 different commands (introduction, ping, catfact, joke, diceroll, and help), does not collide with anyone elses’ commands, and is (now) live 24/7!

Something that I found challenging was, firstly, navigating the Slack API and changing the settings for this bot to be created in the first place. Following that, another thing that I found relatively challenging was trying to find a way to host the bot 24/7 as this took me a few days (perhaps because I was also trying to pass the Hack Club verification at the same time lol).

This has been a very fun experience, where I was able to learn more about how JavaScript can connect so deeply to creating bots in public platforms like Slack. It helped me realize more about how these bots (which are prevalent on many other social media platforms, like Discord) are created and hosted 24/7 – something that the Stardance Challenge has helped me learn.