My first slack bot!

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/dsb-ping doesn't work. DM @Carlson for questions.

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/dsb-urban doesn't seem to exist. DM @Carlson for questions.

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@swn returned your project · 4 months ago

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Hi, this is a great Slackbot with a lot of useful features! However, a lot of those features don't work in the Slackbot. Please fix them and reship, and we'll get it in the voting queue for you :D

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@divya on My first slack bot! · 4 months ago

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Finally got the site and bot completely stable! I added an offline fallback simulation to the frontend, so if the backend is down or the site is loaded statically (like on Cloudflare/Netlify), the ‘Try It Live’ demo won’t crash with 404s anymore—it gracefully switches to mock responses.
On the backend, I fixed rate-limiting crashes on /dsb-trivia by setting up fail-safes so it falls back to local questions if the external APIs act up. I also restored the missing Slack command registrations and cleaned up the package.json dependencies so everything compiles perfectly on production hosts like Railway

@PianoMan0 returned your project · 4 months ago

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Hey, please change your demo link to a link to a Slack channel where users can demo your project! Additionally, please declare that you used AI for the readme in your AI Declaration.

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@divya on My first slack bot! · 4 months ago

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messed up the project i accidentally upated the git hub repo of other project to already running projetc i am trying to fix this

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@divya on My first slack bot! · 4 months ago

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i added some some advanced command it did not work a while due to some error finally fixed and patched it up

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@divya on My first slack bot! · 4 months ago

🚀 What I Made:
I built a bot packed with utility and entertainment features, including:

/dsb-help: A comprehensive, dynamic help menu.
/dsb-weather : Live weather checker using wttr.in.
/dsb-joker & /dsb-dadjoke: Funny and random jokes.
/dsb-trivia: Dynamic trivia questions with spoiler-tag answers.
/dsb-urban : Real-time slang lookups via Urban Dictionary.
/dsb-catfact, /dsb-qotd, /dsb-ping, and /dsb-hello.
🧠 What Was Challenging:
Configuring the bot to use Slack’s Socket Mode cleanly.
Overcoming deployment validations and setting up the bot to run 24/7 on a Nest Linux container using systemd, which was a great learning curve for managing services.
Debugging package.json entry points and asynchronous javascript callbacks.
✨ What I’m Proud Of:
I’m incredibly proud of building way more than the required 3 commands, ensuring everything was fully modular, and getting the bot completely deployed in a 24/7 environment so my laptop doesn’t need to be open for it to respond!
👉 How to Test:
Add the bot to a channel and try running commands like /dsb-help, /dsb-weather, or /dsb-trivia!

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@divya on My first slack bot! · 4 months ago

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i finally got all the commands together and after waiting long time nest server got approved the slack bot has been deployed 24/7 i tried switching tabs to make this thing work learned a hell lot of things

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@divya on My first slack bot! · 4 months ago

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iam new here , so i tried to learn something beginner and created a slack.fm app using the guide currently iam trying to decide what to do next do some creative imagination to real world application