Inspiration
At my startup we often find things that seem to be 'Eureka' but were actually said/done a long time ago. When I spoke with the CEO of emojis.com he said he had this cool routine of running the same Deep Research prompt every morning to stay up to date on industry news for him, and I figured it'd be great to have this on Slack so that any organization can set up an AI news-feed in whatever niche they are.
What it does
It is a Slack bot that let's you set a schedule and sytem prompt for deep research reports about anything you want, on your workspace. It uses Perplexity to create reports with web-sources.
How we built it
The backend is in Python, deployed on Google Cloud using Firebase to store cron jobs and user prompts. Google Functions are used to run the research reports, and Bolt lets the bot communicate with Slack.
Challenges we ran into
API integrations were long, very. Also it was my first time using Google Cloud for DB + Runs, so it took a while to get set up, specially with the infrastructure.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
Learnt the Slack API, Google DB and how to deploy on Google Cloud, submited it!
What we learned
How to rush the devpost submission lol. Seriously, how to work with the Slack API, use Google Cloud for serverless.
What's next for Deep Slack
Website, X Posts + publish it on the Slack Marketplace with billing.
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