Innovation Drive's Luna

Luna
Lean Canvas
Conversation With Luna

Inspiration

At tech companies, there are many wasted amazing idea. Our goal was to build a slackbot that motivates and helps people to innovate.

What it does

We named our bot Luna. Luna is a sweet little bot that will have a conversation with you when you have an idea. She will ask questions that will make you realize the strengths and weaknesses of your idea. After her round of questions is complete, she will build for you a nice lean canvas that you can edit to make even better. When you are satisfied she can post it for you in the #innovation channel of slack.

How we built it

We built the bot itself using the Slack for Java api. Once she gathers the needed information she uploads them to a MySQL database. Using web programming with PHP and JavaScript our website retrieve the database and build a editable lean canvas. Luna then simply returns the canvas to the user and posts it to a slack channel if the user wants so.

Challenges we ran into

Retrieving the database with PHP was hard, since from java we had no direct way to call any PHPor JavaScript methods, so we had to build sketchy workarounds. We also realized how hard a designers job is.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

It all works and we only threatened to kill each other less than 10 times!

What's next for Innovation Drive's Luna

Have the innovations posted anonymously, and be able to rate them. Once an innovation reaches 10 up-votes it tilts, and gets automatically posted in a slack channel so people can discuss the possibility of creating it.