Slack integrations so far; deploys, doorbells, reddit and lunch menus

On Earth People, we recently fell in love with Slack (Oh yes that’s an affiliate link that will give us both 100 dollar credit). It got us off Skype (which we didn’t really love anyway) and on to something that felt fresh. What really got us hooked was all the integrations we could do. Here’s a couple we’ve done so far:

1. When the doorbell rings, an Arduino triggers a HTTP request to some shitty PHP script we’ve written, which checks GoogleCal for meetings and pings the chatroom with what’s at the door.

2. Lunch is obviously a big thing for us hoomans. We’ve made a little Curl based bot which checks what the nearby restaurants serve for lunch by typing /zum or /stadsmissionen.

3. Whenever someone deploys to a production server, Slack will let everyone know.

4. /reddit <any word> will try to fetch an image from a corresponding subreddit. And post it to everyone… yeah, we’ll see how long this one gets to live. Depends on when someone starts fetching NSFW stuff I guess…

Right now we’re working on a crappy little Raspberry-integration for our Moccamaster. Wouldn’t it just be great to be able to ask Slack if there’s any coffee…