Fork This Idea (Slack Bot)

A Slack bot for submitting and voting on ideas, built with Python. Submitted ideas are stored in a Firebase database, and displayed on a web page developed here.

The Slack bot component of this project is being developed under the Thunder You-Ship-We-Ship by Hack Club.

I'm following the tutorial from Slack Developer Tools in the initial stages.

MVP Features

• Submit ideas
• Vote on ideas

Future Features

• View top ideas
• View recent ideas

Firebase Setup

1. Create a Firebase project:

• Go to the Firebase Console
• Click "Add project" and follow the setup wizard
• Enter a project name and accept the terms
• (Optional) Configure Google Analytics
• Click "Create project"

2. Create a Realtime Database:

• In your Firebase project console, click on "Build" in the left sidebar
• Select "Realtime Database"
• Click "Create Database"
• Choose a location for your database (typically the default option is fine)
• Start in test mode for development (you can update security rules later)

3. Add a service account key to your project:

• In your Firebase project console, go to Project Settings (gear icon)
• Select the "Service accounts" tab
• Click "Generate new private key" button
• Save the JSON file securely (you'll need this for your application)
• Never commit this file to version control

Nest Setup

If you're hosting this bot on Hack Club's Nest, follow these steps:

1. Create a nest account following the instructions here.
2. Connect to nest via ssh as described in the guide above.
3. Clone this repository in the pub/ directory:

cd pub/
git clone https://github.com/MaadhavBhatt/fork-this-idea-slack-bot.git
cd ..

4. Move update_repo.sh to the root and make it executable. Use it to clone the repository automatically every time you deploy:

mv pub/fork-this-idea-slack-bot/update_repo.sh .
chmod +x update_repo.sh

5. Create a .env file in the root directory and copy the contents from .env.example, then fill in your Firebase and Slack credentials:

cp pub/fork-this-idea-slack-bot/.env.example .env
nano .env

6. Copy the example service file into the systemd directory:

cp pub/fork-this-idea-slack-bot/ftibot.service.example ~/.config/systemd/user/ftibot.service

7. Enable the service and check its status:

systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user enable --now ftibot.service
systemctl --user status ftibot.service