Great writeup. And, if the author is here, congrats on profitability! As a tip for other aspiring bot developers, though. I've been writing a lot of bots late

Great writeup. And, if the author is here, congrats on profitability! As a tip for other aspiring bot developers, though. I've been writing a lot of bots lately and I've been convinced that for Slack bots Serverless really is the way to go. Pay for what you use, no infrastructure to run, and mostly seamless scaling. I know the infrastructure is already lean based on this article but with AWS Lambda and DynamoDB each user would be pennies a month.[1] Profitability would only require about 1 user. Ultimately, though, the most important thing is to launch and if RoR gets you their fastest or offers some features that are critical to your app and can't be done in serverless then that is what you should do. [1] When you consider the DynamoDB free tier. Which I'd venture you can get to a huge number of users before exhausting your free tier with a chat bot.