Using discord to an eye on your website
Disclaimer, I don't like email. I have to many of it, and even after unsubscribing from most newsletters, it's still messy.
So when I was developing my new side project growthmind.club I changed all the business notifications into Discord.
I use Netlify for the frontend and lambdas, so I set up the hooks to discord (pro-tip, discord can accept "slack style" hooks), for everything like deployments start/finish. I set the lambda that runs the user newsletter to send me a notification every time user sign-ups. All the internal events like start of meeting go to discord. It's awesome. And all of this absolutely free.
I think I'm sharing this because It was way easier to set up then I expected, and that made me happy. And now, I'm working more often, and checking dashboards less often, because I know if something happens I get notified.
Now I just need to also integrate my website analytics into it.
Does anybody have similar cool and easy automations to share?
Nice, I've also looking more and more for solutions replace email by other technology.
Can you provide some more information how exactly you setup your solution?
Yeah, sure.
First if you don't already have create a discord server, and then you can just follow this tutorial: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/228383668-Intro-to-Webhooks
Which is basically going into to the Integration tab of your server setting and generating a new URL. Then you just need to use that URL + "/slack" [1] in the end for the integrations that Netlify provides [2].
For the Lambda part of the integration I just wrote a simple axios.post request with some data also in /slack style notifications.
[1] https://discord.com/developers/docs/resources/webhook#execute-slackcompatible-webhook
[2] https://docs.netlify.com/site-deploys/notifications/#slack-notifications