FaceQuiz

You've just started at a new job, and if you're anything like me, it's going to be a huge struggle to learn everyone's name. Fear not! FaceQuiz helps you match faces to names from the comfort of Slack. Here's what it looks like:

You can add it to your Slack here but beware: this is a ridiculous, nowhere-near-production-ready hack. The main issue is that everything is stored in memory, so if the server dies, there goes FaceQuiz. I'm working on adding real database support, see todos below.

Getting it Running

First register a Slack application, then run the following:

pip install -r requirements.txt # virtualenv, hopefully
export CLIENT_ID="client id from slack"
export CLIENT_SECRET="client secret from slack"
export SECRET_KEY="a secret key for flask"
export REDIRECT_URI="a redirect url you gave to slack, I did https://facequiz.raphieps.com/oauth"
python app.py

The app runs on port 5000, but if you want to get fancy and forward from port 80, here's my nginx config:

server {
        listen 80;
        server_name facequiz.raphieps.com;
        location ~ ^/ {
                proxy_pass http://localhost:5000;
        }
}

Todos

As alluded to, this is ridiculously crappy right now. Here's what I'd like to add soon:

• An actual database, instead of janky global variables
• A better interface - it's tiresome to keep typing /facequiz
• Filtering for people without profile pictures
• Ability to do something like /facequiz #engineering and get quizzed only on people in that channel
• General code cleanup
• Make a nice landing page