What I made: SlackSpace is a feature-rich Slack bot running 24/7 on Hack Club's Nest servers. It has 13 commands spanning utility, fun, knowledge, and a full conversational AI assistant powered by Llama 3.3 70B via Groq — including /sp-ask, /sp-ping, /sp-joke, /sp-define, /sp-dice, and more. The AI remembers your last 20 messages and you can DM it directly without any command.
How to test it: The bot is live and hosted on Hack Club Nest — it runs 24/7 via systemd and auto-restarts on crash. You can test it right now in the Hack Club Slack by typing any /sp- command (e.g. /sp-ping, /sp-joke, /sp-ask what is a black hole). No setup needed — just type and it responds.
This project was built as part of the Hack Club Stardance "Make a Slack Bot" beginner mission. I chose it to understand how Slack bots, APIs, and hosting on Nest work — as a learning exercise before pursuing my own original idea. Cline (an AI coding assistant) did most of the actual coding. My contribution was following through, deploying it, and using it as a hands-on way to learn the stack.
