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zachlatta
Really not a fan of the name – why name it BotKit when you know that the most popular framework is also called Botkit?
ramswaroop
Yes, was discussing the same with Botkit founder as well. Will change the name asap.
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mbrevoort
Inspired so much that you stole the name? That's embarrassing.
ramswaroop
Yes, will change the name soon. Please suggest a good one. Was thinking of BotGear.
lpolovets
How about JBot? You could call him/her Jay for short.
mbrevoort
I like JBot...

Other options: bot4j J4bot Botsdk (pronounced botstick) Bot devkit Chatbot kit Botlib

elmigranto
> Botsdk (pronounced botstick)

These kinds of things never work, people rarely pick up non-obvious pronunciations or abbreviations (look at nginx, SQL, or npm). So don't get too attached to the idea.

tedmiston
No need to dwell on what is a pretty generic name after all.
hiou
"stole"? Come on it's a generic name anyone might come up with. Dial back the rage for a night.
robinhowlett
Like it - though the FILE_SHARED example doesn't appear to work.
ramswaroop
Thanks for letting me know. The example shown is incorrect as you can't reply to it. Because to reply you need to have a channel id in event object and slack doesn't send a channel id for file_shared event (https://api.slack.com/events/file_shared).

I will modify the example now. Thanks very much.

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ramswaroop
Example modified and released. Thanks once again for pointing this out.
justin_vanw
nah, I choose not to do this, or really anything else that I can avoid doing, in Java.
ramswaroop
Any reasons behind this thought? Mentioning the same here would help.
ramswaroop
Guys, are there any Hacker News badges for Github?

For example, I want to show points on it and refer to this page when someone clicks on the badge.