FlockSO is a product created at the Flock Hackathon - Flockathon, to be precise - hosted at their office on 18-19th Feb 2017. It was a hackathon to get developers to create apps that make lives easy - of developers, teams and people in general.
As developer who is your best friend after Google? Yes - StackOverflow.
This was a combined effort of 24 hours by @havanagrawal, @sunnyshah2894, @ak1132 and me!
- Node backend - watcher, services and everything else.
- Flock App with all the below mentioned configurations enabled and queries mapped to correct service URLs.
- StackExchange API.
We have tried to incroprate as many actions as possible, which we do normally on SO - any more suggestions and ideas are welcome. We also tried to use as many features of FlockOS as possible.
- Slash commands - use /SO to ask SO something! e.g. /SO java how to read a file
- Bot response - The server queries SO API to find the top questions related to your input and we pick 3 best answers which are sent via Bot response.
- FlockML - We wanted the user to be able to upvote an answer right from Flock - so we presented a button using hacks in FlockML ;) - WIP as we need to get OAuth in place
- Watch - The user can also add a question to the watch list. Whenever there is a change(a new answer, a new accepted answer, comment, change of question etc), your friend - Bot comes and updates you about any activity that happened on the app!
- App launcher button - to show the user a list of all the questions he is watching - and obviously to un-watch them(WIP)!
PS - Any one willing to contribute to make this app live and finish all WIPs - I owe you a 🍺