Blot - Team Blot - Remote Education and Work

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Inspiration

In year 10 work experience, I made a chat bot to log sick days. Unfortunately, when I left, they didn't use it because no one was there to maintain it. Now, anyone can build bots themselves.

What it does

Builds upon Google's open source Blockly programming environment with new API blocks that allow chat bot functionality, and general API usage, to be visually programmed.

How we built it

Vue, Node, Express, Mongo DB, Blockly, Discord/Slack APIs

Challenges we ran into

Learning Vue, 'the slack API is awful'.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Strong team communication (absolute vibe of a call across the weekend)
Successful implementation of an abstraction across the discord and slack APIs
Unconventional idea that uses a variety of APIs - lot's of learning.
Sufficient hours of sleep!

What we learned

Git push often. Identify strengths and work 'async', so that we're not waiting for each other.

What's next for Blot - Remote Education and Work

API world domination that is approachable for beginners.

Built With

node.js
vue

Submitted to

Codebrew 2021

Created by

I used the Blockly API to add the various blocks to the front end.

Daniel B
Together with Henry, we worked on authentication, node express for the application. As well as finalising some front end elements such as the About Page.

Peter Bozzo
I worked on setting up the backend with express, nodejs and monodb. I implemented the users, authentication and create bot api. I also worked on the frontend, creating the login and token form modals

Henrique Pureza
I worked on the integrations with Discord and Slack, as well as setting up the server.

Owen Feik