A Heroku service to send anonymous messages to colleagues on Slack. Your message shows up under the guise of a random animal: an anonymous aardvark says: [your message].
As a slack administrator:
Clone this repository, enter it and generate the Godeps:
git clone git@github.com:recursionpharma/anonymous-slack.git
cd anonymous-slack
godep save -r
Create a new Heroku app:
heroku create
>>> Creating whispering-cliffs-7437... done, stack is cedar-14
>>> https://whispering-cliffs-7437.herokuapp.com/ | https://git.heroku.com/whispering-cliffs-7437.git
In Slack integrations, add a Slash command, for example, /anon . Set the URL in Slack to your Heroku website URL (in our example, https://whispering-cliffs-7437.herokuapp.com/). The resulting slack "token" should be set as a Heroku environment variable:
heroku config:set INCOMING_SLACK_TOKEN=XXX
Then, in Slack integrations, add a Slash Incoming webhook. The resulting "webhook url" should be set as the Heroku environment variable:
heroku config:set INCOMING_SLACK_WEBHOOK=https://hooks.slack.com/services/BLAH/BLAH/BLAH
Deploy to heroku.
git push heroku trunk
Success! Now if you send a message in any channel, public or private, like the following:
/anon @somebodyelse hey, guess who?
That message will be suppressed, and @somebodyelse gets a message like this:
an anonymous capybara says: hey, guess who?
Be nice!