

Naturally these designs went through several revisions during development. Original schema and controller design can be viewed in the docs folder of this repo. Technical Challenges and Solutions Backend Design Redis To Go for local ActionCable data storage.AOL Instant Messenger based interface and sound effects.Homegrown response generation algorithm.SmarterChild bot running aboard Rails application.Private chat with fellow users and SmarterChild.Multiple channels open for application event forwarding.Leveraging of Rails' ActionCable for real-time message updates and channel broadcast management.Slink started as a simple attempt at cloning the much-beloved team collaboration tool Slack, and quickly became an amalgamation of Slack and primordial AOL Instant Messenger.

Slink - an AIM clone visually influenced by Windows 95
