No More Kings
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A challenging puzzle game based on the rules of chess
Christian Montoya
DotCom Bot — Find domain names & @ usernames fast on Slack & FB Messenger
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Maya Prohovnik
Idea: have this slack me one available .com domain a day :)
Ouriel Ohayon
built exactly the same thing 7 years ago on twitter. ideas are never new
Christian Montoya
@ourielohayon ha, I was actually wondering if there would be a way to do this on Twitter... probably much less verbose!
Christian Montoya
@ourielohayon ah that makes total sense
Christian Montoya
Hi all! I had an idea: what if you could look up domain name availability without ever leaving Slack? And you could even query whois info or get links to buy the domains too. So I set out to build something with Slack's new message buttons and it actually works quite nicely. I also went ahead and built it on Facebook Messenger too. And then I added support for looking up username availability on the big 5 social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram and Pinterest). Give it a try and let me know what you think! And before anyone asks, I built this with Claudia Bot Builder https://github.com/claudiajs/cla... :)
Terkel
@decktonic thanks for telling how you built it. Why did you choose Claudia over all the other bot builders out there. Have you tried other?
Christian Montoya
@terkelg I built a few bots in plain Node.js on Heroku and did one with the Serverless framework (also runs on AWS Lambda like Claudia). Lambda seems really cheap (even compared to Heroku) and more stable and I thought Claudia looked interesting (it promised to be easier to set up and definitely was much much easier than Serverless) so I decided to try it out. For something that just transforms input and returns a response it's good... if I was going to make something that stored context and added other features I would probably not use Lambda at all. Also my wife's name is Claudia so I think there was some subconscious bias in my decision :)
Alan Nichol
very cool! I had an itch to build this myself, but this is very nicely executed :) great stuff
Dilyar Askar
Great work! Now, just curious, what is preventing you guys to take a domain we searched for before we can decide to buy it?
Christian Montoya
@dilyarbatur my lack of skill :) but even if I could build something like that, it wouldn't be my intention!
Ian
Is it not working? I tried /dotcom example.com which led to a Facebook Graph link with an error message.
Subhash Medatwal
Sounds good. I use Instant domain search for this purpose..A lot helpful when need to choose name of project based on dotcom availablility. https://instantdomainsearch.com/
yadav prasanth
Hi, looks good on slack. However, I am pretty much far from using bots in my messenger. Getting authentic information. Thanks for the good tool. :)
✎ Andrew Warner
@riser_spy why don't you use them in messenger?