Ponchik 🍩

A ⚡ blazing fast ⚡ slack donut app clone written in Rust 🦀

Ponchik helps integrate members of your team. Add Ponchik to a channel, and it will randomly pair individuals in the channel to be introduced in DMs.

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Ponchik is deployed as a set of Vercel Functions built on the community-driven Vercel Runtime for Rust. Vercel Function invokations (or a command line interface) can be used to invoke stages of the pairing cycle, including making the introduction, sending checkpoints, and closing.

Pairings and their statuses are recorded in a PostgreSQL database using the sqlx PostgreSQL driver.

The Slack API is used to send Block Kit messages and handle user interaction.

Todos

• Backend
  • Ensure sqlx and postgres works in the vercel runtime
  • Write pairings to database at intros generation
  • Read active pairings from db and send midpoint checkins
  • update db from user interactions
  • update db at pair close
  • if sqlx and postgresql doesnt work then im either turning this into some middlewware with a js implementation powering the db connection, or writing a rust database library for google sheets
• Application
  • Add instrumentation (wip)
  • set up jaegar / frontend for logs
  • clean up user interaction handling so that the stupid (edit) symbol doesn't appear. reference
  • Update pairing algo to prevent duplicate pairings
  • Update intro_launch endpoint to accept arguments for group size
  • implement a "nobody responded" interaction handling
  • implement a random group leader picker ("take point on making this meeting happen")
  • start a requested feature list. potentially include block lists, meeting schedule adjuster, multiple midpoint checkins,
• Front end
  • Create slack-authenticated frontend which displays db contents and can be used to interact with app
• Misc
  • lint everything, get rid of sheets stuff, probably move MeetingStatus struct to another module

DB Table

group channel id | meeting status | date of intro | names...

meeting_status = {open, scheduled, closed_met, closed_no, closed_scheduled, closed_stale}