My first slack bot!

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@Zair on My first slack bot! · about 2 hours ago

Built a Slack bot with 5 slash commands: /zair-ping (latency check), /zair-help (list commands), /zair-catfact and /zair-joke (fetch from public APIs), and /zair-8ball (magic 8-ball). Deployed it on Hack Club Nest as a systemd service with auto-restart, so it stays online 24/7 even when my laptop is closed. The trickiest part was getting the systemd service and Slack Socket Mode auth working together, and registering new slash commands in the Slack app config after adding them to the code. To test: run any of the commands in the workspace where the bot is installed, e.g. /zair-8ball will this ship?

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@Zair on My first slack bot! · about 2 hours ago

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Deployed the bot 24/7 on Hack Club Nest using systemd, so it stays online even with my laptop closed. Added a logging middleware to track command usage and a new /zair-8ball command on top of ping/help/catfact/joke. Wrote a README documenting setup and deployment.