ASCII Slack Bot - Stardance

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A silly little Slack bot that allows users to create ASCII images and text with simple commands. The bot can produce ASCII art images of Shrek, Garfield, Bluey, and Pikachu. It can also create ASCII text of any normal text with no whitespace and in any single-word font found at https://asciified.thelicato.io/. It also has a help command to help users use the different commands.

The Install link only works for the Hack Club Slack workspace.

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@Mario on ASCII Slack Bot · 14 days ago

2h 37m 44s logged

I’ve been working on trying to make the bot available for anyone to use in any Slack workspace. I tried to accomplish this without a domain because I didn’t want to pay for one, and I wasn’t aware of the free options available. Even though only 2 and a half hours are being logged from the occasional edits I’ve had to make in VS Code, I spent at least 4 hours on top of that working through this, mostly on the terminal. I’ve applied for the GitHub Student Developer Pack, which will hopefully allow me to obtain a domain and make this process much easier.

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@Mario on ASCII Slack Bot · 16 days ago

1h 22m 18s logged

I got the bot working 24/7 using nest. I had some trouble figuring out how to update the bot so that it would use the latest version 24/7, but I figured it out eventually. Also added both Bluey and Pikachu as drawable characters and implemented the asciified API to add ASCII text.

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@Mario on ASCII Slack Bot · 16 days ago

2h 6m 49s logged

The main functionality of my bot is finished. I will be working on getting it to be live 24/7. Also looking for suggestions as to what to add next