Friday, 31 July 2015

Node.js-powered Ping Pong League Within Slack.com

A node.js application which you host (somewhere like Heroku) and then hookup to your slack.com account in order to issue ping pong match challenges and track their results.

I don't know if it's totally genius or totally insane, either way we're using it: https://github.com/andrewvy/slack-pongbot

The amount of tech involved to set-up ping pong matches is brilliant. I haven't dug around in the code too much but I assume it works in the following way:

hosted node.js web server listening and responding to HTTP POST requests being made slack.com when keywords are used. e.g. pongbot challenge johnsmith.


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