Flock, the #1 Team Messenger invites you to experience the power of the FlockOS - the World’s First Chat Operating System - through our series of ‘Flockathons’. App developers can build incredibly powerful apps, bots, and integrations on top of the FlockOS. So, get your thinking hats on, and come up with innovative solutions to push the frontiers of team productivity.
Make sure you install both the Desktop and Mobile (iOS, Android) clients
Invite your teammates to your Flock team
Step 4: Register for this Flockathon
Join the Flockathon team to receive updates and important information. All shortlisted participants: please join the team at http://hackerearth-flockathon.flock.co/
Login to the Flock dev dashboard at https://dev.flock.co/
Register your app (The Dev Dashboard link is whitelisted for all shortlisted participants)
Step 7: Decide what you want to build
FlockOS - the World’s first Chat Operating System - is the ultra-powerful platform on which one can build apps and integrations within Flock. Apps are a first class citizen in Flock.
With FlockOS, your apps can:
Send Messages and Attachments to Flock groups and users. For example, the GitHub app sends configurable notifications to any Flock Group. The Todo app notifies your group whenever a task is completed.
Configure a Bot to send directed messages to users like the Reminder bot, which sends a reminder message at a scheduled time.
Add an Attachment Picker to the Attachment Picker bar. For example, the Poll app adds a button to the Attachment bar that allows a user to create and send opinion polls in Flock
Add a Chat Tab Button to the Chat tab bar. The Todo app adds a button to the Chat tab bar, which pops up the sidebar widget and shows the various tasks of the team
Add Widgets to Flock desktop and mobile clients. These include the modal widget, the sidebar widget and the attachment widget. Apps such as the Poll app, Todo app and others use these widgets to provide an amazing GUI for their apps
Setup Slash Command to receive commands from the user. For example, the /video slash command creates a video conference room and displays its URL in the group
Setup your Launcher Button. For example, the ToDo app uses the App Launcher button to display a list of todos.
Receive specific URLs to generate URL Previews. For example, the Google Drive app subscribes to all URLs starting with drive.google.com to provide a rich preview back.
Step 8: Setup your hosting
Depending on what you are building you may need to host your app on a server somewhere. We recommend one of the below options
Use ngrok. Ngrok allows you to expose a web server running on your local machine to the Internet. This makes it easy to test and demo your apps from the comfort of your localhost. Also allows you to inspect and replay all traffic. Note that each time you restart ngrok your app http endpoint will change.
AWS S3 + AWS API Gateway + Lambda + RDS
S3 can host your HTML and Javascript files
Lambda lets you host your functions on Java, Python or Node.js
API Gateway exposes those Lambda functions as an HTTP endpoint
RDS provides a MySQL data store incase you need one
AWS EC2 + RDS
In case you want your own full blown VM you can use AWS EC2 and RDS
Setup a FREE AWS developer account for any of the above two options. Link to be shared post initial shortlisting.
Step 9: Final Presentations
Teams will be invited for final presentations post initial shortlisting
Teams will be given 24 hours to complete the task and make their presentations
Every team will be provided with food, beverages, and beanbags to sustain them through the Flockathon