April 10, 2019
- The team met at 2:00 PM to more-formally brainstorm project ideas. We discussed possible projects that practice the concepts we've learned in our Code Fellows 401 course.
- The team landed on building a Slack Bot to help fellow students and developers save code snippets and images as Github gists and files in Google Drive.
- Chris came up with the name "SlackLackey".
- We wanted to use Socket.io and OAuth 2 to build this, but were unsure if we could accomplish such a task in a week (we had to present a deployed product on Friday, April 19).
- Erin wrote out tasks on the whiteboard and each member agreed to research a few topics/tools (Slack Bots, Socket.io, the Github API for gists, the Google Drive API, etc.).
- Our team met with the instructional staff—John, Ix, and Hannah—to pitch our idea and hear their thoughts.
- We shared our basic idea and whiteboard images.
- John said that it could be done, but the OAuth management would be the most difficult aspect of the project.
- We realized we could scale-down that aspect of the project by making a single Github gist account for the entire Slack workspace and make all gists public.
