Mee7

Mee7

Shipped mee7, a small Slack bot built with Node.js and Slack Bolt.

This was definitely one of the easier projects I’ve worked on compared to some of my other recent ones, but I still had a lot of fun making it. The main challenge wasn’t really the bot itself, but getting everything working together properly.

The most interesting part was handling APIs. mee7 uses several public APIs for things like cat facts, dog images, jokes, useless facts, and quotes, so I got to learn how to make requests to different endpoints and handle their responses inside a Slack bot.

I also learned more about structuring a Node.js project around Slack Bolt and how to host the bot continuously with Nest.

Overall, it was a simpler project than some of the others I’ve shipped, but it was still a really fun one to build. It gave me a better understanding of APIs and how they can be combined with other services to make something actually useful (or at least entertaining) inside Slack.