Slack Community Hack

A simple kit for building Slack community with TypeForm and auto-invitation.

Contents

• index.html - A minimalistic HTML landing page you can customize and serve through your favorite web server.
• inviter/ - A tiny automaton (~100 LOC) using node.js that queries TypeForm and send Slack invitation to new emails.
• Gulp to compile scss into css.

Use

1. Clone the repo, and run npm install.
2. Customize index.html and serve it through your web server (nginx, Apache, etc.)
3. Configure the inviter by filling in inviter/config.js.
4. Run the inviter by running node inviter/index.js. Use tools such as pm2 to keep the process alive in the background.

Dependency

• MongoDB - Used to keep track of emails to which invitations have already been sent.
• node.js - Used to run inviter.

Built with Slack Community Hack

• RemoteMesh - Chat with other people working remotely
• wingFind - Chat with hundreds of daygamers in your city and beyond

License

MIT