pricebot (VTHACKS Project)

A Slack reporter for stock price

Inspiration

Just want to slack and get stock information during work.

What it does

Basically, the project is the backend service integrated with Slack app to report the stock price in the channel. Users can simply type a command interacting with the customized Slack app to get the information. Moreover, the Slack app can also remind the users what is the closing price of companies daily!

How we built it

We embrace Java Spring Boot as our backend framework, using Slack Java SDK to communicate with the Slack channel. Then we have a good time with Docker to containerize our backend service so that our Java backend can run in anywhere. Finally, we use GitHub Actions to build the docker image and deploy it on Render cloud server.

Challenges we ran into

We are the first-timers in Hackathons and definitely encountered the problem in integration of different libraries. For example, the Slack app can only send the x-www-urlencode request format we did not know and this took us a lot of time to debug.

Accomplishments that we're proud of and what we learned

We knew the entire software development workflow from dev to deploy. It's totally different experience from school.

What's next for pricebot

We would like to distribute our Slack app.