Remote-control your Slack bots with JSON (opens in new tab)

Thanks for the question about this. For some context we drink a lot of coffee at my office. We have two pots (bold & light roasts). People never know when coffee is ready or brewing without going to the kitchen. We have a #coffee channel so people can post that they are brewing, but then we had issues with people stealing cups before the pot was done (don't do this). So this app gives an interface for people to just click their face and the bot will handle it from there. It says that a pot is brewing, and 12 minutes later will post that the pot is ready.

To your point, it is just a mobile app with a slack integration. I built it to test out jasonette, which was a great experience, but I have no delusions of grandeur here.

I don't think there's any "chat" involved in the slack bot mentioned in the post

Hi, app author here. When I wrote the readme I wasn't expecting anyone to think about it outside of my company. You can host this on Heroku, that's what I'm doing. Just make sure to add the environment files in the settings. Then you can either build the a jasnonette app or use the relevant Jason apps and point the url to <your-heroku-url>/jsonette.json

Hey thanks for the question. I think, just for trying it out you don't even need heroku, you should be able to run it from localhost.

BTW the original author of the app is @shaunymca, so I think he'll be able to help you better than me :)

Maybe try asking on https://github.com/shaunymca/coffeeapp/issues ?

Thanks!

That's roughly the amount of time it takes for our coffee pot to brew 12 cups of coffee. So it posts immediately that a pot is brewing to save people a walk to the kitchen, and again when the pot is done.

It appears that HN automatically added the (2016) tag by looking at the permalink, which I mistakenly set as 2016 (still need to get used to 2017!), and that was what I was trying to say, because it looked as though the post was written a year ago.

Sorry for the confusion!