First Ever Attempt to #BuildInPublic and I've got just 21 days to do it

I'm going to travel for 2 months in 21 days. The goal is to get a slack app written and released before I board that first plane.

The app itself is a very basic premise. Slack has Slackbot which can respond to certain messages in all channels but it lacks channel specific automated responses. I'm going to build the bot that replies to custom key phrases but only in the channels specified.

A simple use case, stolen from the Slackbot wiki itself is to setup an automated response for posts containing the phrase "Wifi Password" to reply with the Wifi password for the building. If you have a company with 2 buildings with 2 wifi passwords then this won't work, it will always response with the first buildings wifi password. With channel specific responses, you can set up different responses for #building-one channel and #building-two channel.

I'm a wantrepeneur first and foremost. Indiehackers as pointed me towards the world of apps and extensions as the place to cut my teeth, slack specifically. Primarily from these 3 posts:

https://robwalling.com/2015/03/26/the-stairstep-approach-to-bootstrapping/
Stairstep approach to bootstrapping: basic premise is to build on other people's platforms until you own your own time and then switch to your own SAAS. You trade marketing risk for platform risk by building for a software products's app store.

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-ive-made-50-000-profit-from-a-side-project-anonymous-slack-bot-4918f94294 Abot: The first story I saw about slack apps on here. Story of an anonymous feedback bot on Slack making 50K a day.

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-wilhelm-klopp-built-simple-poll-one-of-the-most-popular-slack-apps-876c0ebcd9 Simple Poll: This showed me that even the simplest premise can be made in to a profitable app.

If you'd like to follow along, I'm going to try and tweet regularly. Anyone in the same boat then I'll follow back and hopefully join the cohort of indiehackers breaking ground with their first piece of revenue https://twitter.com/GRBLDeveloped