It's a Serverless Slack bot for organising chat-roulette style one-to-one interactions.
As many of use move to remote-only working, the need for human interaction is amplified.
Video chats are a good substitute for water-cooler chats, coffee breaks, lunches outside the office.
One-to-one chats in particular encourage a deeper connection between colleagues who might not often chat.
Using
- Chalice from AWS
- the official Python 3 client for Slack
- AWS SSM via
boto3 - AWS Lambda (and API Gateway) for serverless hosting
- Some other stuff
- Make it work!
- Persist the shuffle in