nice-2-meet-u

Connect teammates for a chat on Slack

Introduction

This repository is a self hosted conversation starter bot for Slack on AWS. Every two weeks, it pairs random teammates for a 15-minute conversation.

While there are free, managed alternatives for companies below 25 employees, bigger teams can lavarage this repository to create a customized People and Culture experience in a remote environment.

Manual setup

1. Create a Slack app for your Workspace, with permissions channels:history, mpim:write, chat:write, users:read, and Install your app
2. Customize your config.json and src/messages.json files if you want different configurations than the nice-2-meet-u defaults
3. Setup AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY and SLACK_API_TOKEN as Secrets on this repo so that Github Actions can deploy this service