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Show HN: icanhazdadjoke – dad joke api with slack/alexa integrations (icanhazdadjoke.com)
4 points by brettlangdon 3380 days ago
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Hello,

I am the creator of https://icanhazdadjoke.com/. As the product is closing in on it's 1000th Slack installation, I figured it is about time I start to tell the world more about it.

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.

For those interested, the tech stack is:

* Python/Flask (http://flask.pocoo.org/)

* Flask-Ask (https://github.com/johnwheeler/flask-ask)

* Elasticsearch (https://www.elastic.co/)

* AWS S3 (https://aws.amazon.com/s3/)

* Caddy web server (https://caddyserver.com/)

* Cloudflare (https://www.cloudflare.com/)

I am happy to answer any questions anyone might have about the product.