Creating a team callout app

#1

I need to make an sms bot that alerts my team to a “callout”, basically a place that we all need to respond to ASAP. Ideally here’s how it would work:

  1. Joe texts the bot: “CALLOUT: 123 Main Street, Springfield, MA”
  2. The bot then texts all ten members of the team: “From Joe: new callout @ 123 Main Street, Springfield, MA. Respond IN or OUT.”
  3. Joe would receive updates about who is IN or OUT.

Would Flow XO be a good place to build this?

(John Jackson) #2

Yes it could definitely handle this!

You need to receive the new callout message and start a webhook broadcast of the details. Anyone that has interacted with the bot will receive the details.

You then need another flow that will handle the response from people and register that they will attend, maybe add responses to a Google Sheet.

Finally, you could use a Google Sheets New Row trigger to cause updates to go back to Joe.

To route those updates back to Joe, you need to save the initial response path in the Google Sheet and use that response path when you get back to Joe with updates.

It’s not difficult but does take some understanding of Flow XO concepts. Try out tutorials on our blog. If you get stuck along the way support will be able to help or even put you in touch with someone that can build this.

Good luck :+1: