Kudos tracker with live scoreboard for Slack recognition channels
Build a gamified kudos tracker for a team. Kudos are earned when someone posts in a teammate's dedicated recognition channel (e.g. a #hail-<name> Slack channel); the workflow tallies each person's kudos and shows a live, animated scoreboard building toward individual and team targets. The point is to make peer recognition visible and fun. Trigger it three ways: A webhook that receives message events from Slack — or your team's chat tool. When a message lands in a recognition channel, resolve the channel name, map it to the right teammate, and increment their tally in shared persistent storage. Keep this read-only against the chat tool (it only needs to read channel names) and write only to your own storage. A JSON API endpoint that serves the current totals from storage, for the dashboard to poll. A webpage that renders an animated scoreboard, polling the data endpoint every few seconds so it stays live on a wall display. Keep the team roster and the channel-to-person mapping in one editable place so it's easy to add or remove people. Store the running totals in a shared named volume, written only by the event handler and read by the data API. Include brief setup notes: connect the chat tool, register the webhook as its events request URL, subscribe to the relevant message events, and invite the app to each recognition channel. Tools used: Slack (Slack Web API / Events API)
What this prompt builds
A gamified kudos tracker that monitors dedicated Slack recognition channels, tallies positive feedback for each team member, and displays the counts on a live animated scoreboard. The workflow uses webhooks to capture messages, stores running totals in persistent storage, and serves data to a polling dashboard. It turns peer recognition into a visible, fun team experience without solving a specific operational problem.
The problem
Teams that already celebrate peer recognition in dedicated Slack channels often lack a visible, engaging way to surface those kudos beyond the chat stream itself. This workflow turns recognition messages into a live, gamified scoreboard: it monitors each teammate's #hail-<name> channel, tallies every kudos post, and displays running counts on an animated dashboard that can sit on a wall display or shared screen. The result is a fun, visible celebration of team culture that makes positive feedback feel more tangible and rewarding.
Solution and impact
The workflow listens to Slack message events via webhook, maps each post to the right teammate, and increments their tally in persistent storage. A JSON API serves the current totals to a live dashboard that polls every few seconds, so the scoreboard stays up-to-date without manual input. Teams get a low-friction way to make peer recognition feel like a shared achievement, boosting morale and reinforcing a culture of appreciation in real time.