Callie is a slackbot that counts down the days to a given event. The way she works is extremely simple, and I've tried to support a variety of countdown-related functions. Everything is pretty much outta the box. I was surprised that there wasn't already a good countdown bot, but whatever.

Callie was originally written as a custom integration to be used by my friends and I. I extended her functionality and made her publicly available because I thought it would be fun. It is fun! But she is far from perfect, so please open up issues as they arise, and feel very free to contribute.

• Refactor message parsing to allow greater flexibility in commands
• Figure out why Callie's initial welcome message doesn't always send (likely a channel permission issue)
• Allow for time-based countdowns (i.e., set the event time as well as date)
• ...
• Profit

• Just visit the landing page and click "add to slack".

1. fork this repo
2. Set up your local environment

git clone <your forked repo>
cd <app directory>
heroku login
heroku create test-callie

3. Make changes to code
4. Setup a development app on Slack to test
5. Add the following environment variables to heroku
   CALLIE - The username for the app
   PROD_DB - heroku config:get MONGODB_URI
   SLACK_CLIENT - from Slack
   SLACK_SECRET - from Slack
   SLACK_VERIFICATION_TOKEN - from Slack
6. Push to your heroku test app and test

git push heroku

6. Issue a pull request from your fork back to the parent repository