Allow your friends and users to trade with popular items, anytime, anywhere, directly from Slack or another favourite messaging system.
While this can run as normal NodeJS application, main intention was to utilize AWS Lambda, as a demonstration of potential use.
Concept is simple. Users are sending their orders like buy slack 99 or
sell linux 255 to see, if their order was matched with one in the
orderbook, MySQL database. In case of successful trade, response will be
visible to whole channel, to encourage others to start trading.
User can check existing offers in orderbook by typing sell win or
buy skype. There are also special commands like help and products.
There is no intention to have any user management, inventory or account, all is just harmless fun, almost as a game.
For deployment, I recommend to use LambdaDeploy project.
To create Slack integration (API + slash command) I recommend to follow this article.
File database_setup.sql contains basic setup of MySQL table, including products (Warcraft 2 theme). Application currently supports only BUY and SELL order types.
Environmental variables TRDIT_DB_URL, TRDIT_DB_NAME, TRDIT_DB_USER
and TRDIT_DB_PASSWORD are required for proper connection to database.
Have fun!