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Show HN: Beep Boop – a simple platform for your Slackbots

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Post by metatation » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 4:48 PM UTC

Show HN: Beep Boop – a simple platform for your Slackbots
beepboophq.com

Re: Show HN: Beep Boop – a simple platform for your Slackbots

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Post by paste0x78 » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 8:31 PM UTC

Just so you know there is an extra .com on the github link making it github.com.com which has so pretty nasty redirects.

Re: Show HN: Beep Boop – a simple platform for your Slackbots

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Post by mbrevoort » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 9:32 PM UTC

paste0x78 wrote: post #2

Just so you know there is an extra .com on the github link making it github.com.com which has so pretty nasty redirects.

Wow . We're fixing that right away. Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Beep Boop – a simple platform for your Slackbots

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Post by selfcontained » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 10:00 PM UTC

paste0x78 wrote: post #2

Just so you know there is an extra .com on the github link making it github.com.com which has so pretty nasty redirects.

Thanks for the heads up, all fixed now.

Re: Show HN: Beep Boop – a simple platform for your Slackbots

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Post by blakesterz » Wed, Jan 20, 2016, 11:42 PM UTC

"Beep Boop" :-D I love that name and design! I always balk at adding more bots to slack, it's always yelling at me as it is now. I know what bots are and I've written some integrations, but I'd love to see an example on there. "For example here's a bot on Beep Boop that does this super useful thing"

Re: Show HN: Beep Boop – a simple platform for your Slackbots

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Post by mbrevoort » Thu, Jan 21, 2016, 12:09 AM UTC

blakesterz wrote: post #5

"Beep Boop" :-D I love that name and design! I always balk at adding more bots to slack, it's always yelling at me as it is now. I know what bots are and I've written some integrations, but I'd love to see an example on there. "For example here's a bot on Beep Boop that does this super useful thing"

Thanks, it's been really fun to create too :)

The most useful bot that we use internally is a deployment automation bot that orchestrates deployments and scaling in Amazon ECS. We are working to generalize and open source that bot.

In general, I think that bots on Slack will be boom or bust, but it's clear that Slack as a platform and Slack integrations are one of the key things that make the product special and successful. We'd like to give developers the best shot at making bots successful and useful in Slack.

Here is a super simple weather bot example that you can try if you want to see what the Beep Boop user experience is from the consumer side:

http://bit.ly/wittyweather

And here's the source: https://github.com/mbrevoort/witty-weather-bot/blob/master/s...

Re: Show HN: Beep Boop – a simple platform for your Slackbots

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Post by mceoin » Thu, Jan 21, 2016, 12:57 AM UTC

Site not mobile friendly, "log in" pop out blocks whole screen.

Will check this out later though.

Re: Show HN: Beep Boop – a simple platform for your Slackbots

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Post by nakedgremlin » Thu, Jan 21, 2016, 1:14 AM UTC

Saw this at a Slack Dev meetup. Really promising stuff especially with the Wit.ai integration.

Re: Show HN: Beep Boop – a simple platform for your Slackbots

#9

Post by herbst » Thu, Jan 21, 2016, 8:05 AM UTC

I can change team but not retry a different password? I am stuck in the registration process ...

Well that sucks :/

Re: Show HN: Beep Boop – a simple platform for your Slackbots

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Post by datashaman » Thu, Jan 21, 2016, 8:17 AM UTC

I cannot log in with slack, I confirm slack team, and authorize access, redirects to home and nothing. Try it again, exactly the same thing. Disabled adblocker, same thing.

Also, I was expecting to receive an email invite to your Slack team. That hasn't happened.