slack-stranger-bot

Slack Stranger Bot

Meet strangers in your Slack Workspace, explore new people. Fully anonymous and secure, bot doesn't store any data.

How it works?

• User opens a conversation with Stranger Bot.
• Types hi.
• Stranger Bot finds random active user who doesn't participate currently in another Stranger conversation.
• Bot will act as a proxy between two connected users. Never mentioning who sends a message.
• Any user can type bye to finish the conversation, and type hi again to start a new random one.

Anonymous messages to the channel

You can send private message to the Stranger Bot started with channel name to send message to the channel.

• Add Stranger Bot to the channel.
• Send #channel-name message to the Bot in private conversation.

Run Stranger Bot

1. Create an app in Slack
2. Add chat:write OAuth scope
3. Toggle Allow users to send Slash commands and messages from the messages tab
4. Install in your Workspace
5. Retrieve Bot User OAuth Token

docker build -t slack-stranger-bot .
docker run slack-stranger-bot -e SLACK_TOKEN=<token>

Run Unit Tests

go test -v ./...

Coversation example

> **alex.pliutau** [10:29 PM]
>
> hi
>
> **Stranger Bot** [10:29 PM]
>
> Connecting to a random Stranger ...
>
> Stranger found! Say hello, and please be polite. Type "bye" to finish the conversation
>
> hola!!
>
> **alex.pliutau** [10:31 PM]
>
> Nice, super private. How are you?
>
> **Stranger Bot** [10:31 PM]
>
> wat
>
> hahaha
>
> **alex.pliutau** [10:31 PM]
>
> bye
>
> **Stranger Bot** [10:31 PM]
>
> Bye! You finished conversation with the Stranger. Type hi again if you want to start a new random one.