Caviar is food delivery service used by many startups to deliver dinner to employees. Slack is a popular chat program used by many startups. Caviar requires a contact number to send text message updates to, but that contact may change day-to-day. The Caviar Slack bot listens to text messages from Caviar and alerts one your company's Slack channels (or users) whenever updates are sent. It also sends a voice recording to the Caviar delivery person in the rare event that they call the contact number belonging to the bot.
Teespring made a Slack bot, because we're all about automation. You too can run a copy of this bot and automate your dinner process.
- Get an account with Twilio. You'll probably want to add money to the account so that the voice messaging system feature works properly.
- Get a Twilio phone number. Doesn't matter what it is. Write this number down.
- Manage this number in the Twilio web UI. Add two HTTP POST webhooks, one for voice, one for SMS: Voice: http://[YOUR_HEROKU_APP_NAME].herokuapp.com/voice set to HTTP POST SMS: HTTP http://[YOUR_HEROKU_APP_NAME].herokuapp.com/sms set to HTTP POST
- Add a new Slack webhook so the bot can notify your channel: Go to https://YOUR_SLACK_DOMAIN.slack.com/services/new/incoming-webhook Pick a channel or user that you want to be notified of Caviar updates and click "Add Incoming Webhooks Integration".
- Copy that Webhook URL. You'll need it for the next step.
- Add that webhook to your Heroky app with
heroku config:add SLACK_URL=[YOUR_WEBHOOK_URL] -a [YOUR_HEROKU_APP_NAME] - Go to http://[YOUR_APP_NAME].herokuapp.com/ and make sure it says OK.
- Text your Twilio number and make sure it posts to your Slack channel.
- Call your Twilio number and make sure it gives you a voice response and posts to your Slack channel.
- Make your Caviar contact number your Twilio phone number.
- Order food and wait for the bot to keep you up to date!
