My first slack bot!

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@Justin-F on My first slack bot! · about 1 hour ago

**What did you make?**
A 24/7 Slack bot built in Python that responds to custom slash commands like `/slck-coin`, `/slck-dice`, `/slck-ping`, and more. Runs on a nest server using Socket Mode.
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**What was challenging?**
The guide was in JavaScript so I had to convert everything to Python first. Getting the bot installed into an actual Slack workspace was also way more difficult than expected because I did not know what to do.
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**What are you proud of?**
After AI explained and taught me the syntax that I needed I mostly did it myself.

**What should people know to test it?**
You can just click on my demo link and test it by joining the slckbot channel.
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You'll need your own Slack app and workspace. Full setup is in the README — once you add your tokens to .env, just run python slackbot.py, invite the bot to a channel, and try any /slck- command.

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@Justin-F on My first slack bot! · about 2 hours ago

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#Devlog #2

I actually did this a while ago but I was waiting for the ship function and I also did not have a demo link.

I added 2 things:

#1: I added slck-motivate
#2: I added slck-shrug

I also updated /slck-list. I removed /slck-time because it took the local time of the nest server rather than whichever device /slck-time was run on. The code is still in VS code but /slck-time is removed from the commands.

I could not post devlogs because I had a bug where hackatime and stardance challenge were not syncing properly but It got fixed.

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@Justin-F on My first slack bot! · 8 days ago

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Finished 5 commands and runs 24/7. Now I just need a demo website. :p