I announced the AWS Serverless Chatbot Competion in August and invited you to build a chatbot for Slack using AWS Lambda and Amazon API Gateway.

Last week I sat down with fellow judges Tim Wagner (General Manager of AWS Lambda) and Cecilia Deng (a Software Development Engineer on Tim’s team) to watch the videos and to evaluate all 62 submissions. We were impressed by the functionality and diversity of the entrees, as well as the efforts that the entrants put in to producing attractive videos to show their submissions in action.

After hours of intense deliberation we chose a total of 9 winners: 8 from individuals, teams & small organizations and one from a larger organization. Without further ado, here you go:

Individuals, Teams, and Small Organizations

Here are the winners of the Serverless Slackbot Hero Award. Each winner receives one ticket to AWS re:Invent, access to discounted hotel room rates, public announcement and promotion during the Serverless Computing keynote, some cool swag, and $100 in AWS Credits. You can find the code for many of these bots on GitHub. In alphabetical order, the winners are:

AWS Network Helper – “The goal of this project is to provide an AWS network troubleshooting script that runs on a serverless architecture, and can be interacted with via Slack as a chat bot.” GitHub repo.



B0pb0t – “Making Mealtime Awesome.” GitHub repo.

Borges – “Borges is a real-time translator for multilingual Slack teams.” GitHub repo.

CLIve – “CLIve makes managing your AWS EC2 instances a doddle. He understands natural language, so no need to learn a new CLI!”

Litlbot – “Litlbot is a Slack bot that enables realtime interaction with students in class, creating a more engaged classroom and learning experience.” GitHub repo.

Marbot – “Forward alerts from Amazon Web Services to your DevOps team.”

Opsidian – “Collaborate on your AWS infra from Slack using natural language.”

ServiceBot – “Communication platform between humans, machines, and enterprises.” GitHub repo.

Larger Organization

And here’s the winner of the Serverless Slackbot Large Organization Award:

Eva – “The virtual travel assistant for your team.” GitHub repo.

Thanks & Congratulations

I would like to personally thank each of the entrants for taking the time to submit their entries to the competition!

Congratulations to all of the winners; I hope to see you all at AWS re:Invent.

— Jeff;

PS – If this list has given you an idea for a chatbot of your very own, please watch our Building Serverless Chatbots video and take advantage of our Serverless Chatbot Sample.