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Show HN: icanhazdadjoke – dad joke api with slack/alexa integrations

4 pointsby brettlangdonabout 8 years ago

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brettlangdonabout 8 years ago
Hello,<p>I am the creator of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;icanhazdadjoke.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;icanhazdadjoke.com&#x2F;</a>. As the product is closing in on it&#x27;s 1000th Slack installation, I figured it is about time I start to tell the world more about it.<p>This project was a silly weekend idea that I had that slowly has grown organically into over 900 Slack installs (with about 300-400 Slack interactions per day), and over 50 Alexa installations (with around 10 interactions per day) without any marketing.<p>For those interested, the tech stack is:<p>* Python&#x2F;Flask (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;flask.pocoo.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;flask.pocoo.org&#x2F;</a>)<p>* Flask-Ask (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;johnwheeler&#x2F;flask-ask" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;johnwheeler&#x2F;flask-ask</a>)<p>* Elasticsearch (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elastic.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.elastic.co&#x2F;</a>)<p>* AWS S3 (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;s3&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;aws.amazon.com&#x2F;s3&#x2F;</a>)<p>* Caddy web server (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caddyserver.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;caddyserver.com&#x2F;</a>)<p>* Cloudflare (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudflare.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.cloudflare.com&#x2F;</a>)<p>I am happy to answer any questions anyone might have about the product.