Watson Conversation chatbot integration with Slack Slash Commands

README.md

This flow integrates IBM Watson Conversation service on IBM Bluemix with Slash Commands in Slack. A detailed step-by-step tutorial about how to create the chatbot is found here at the FreeBootcamp.io site: https://www.freebootcamp.io/courses/developing-chatbots/

flow.json

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