Add ability for Hipchat to communicate with server via API or sockets. (Ideally move to Slack if that's what we're using at that moment.

Updates to master should automatically update site. This can be a pepper app or use Amplify.

Users should be able to connect in real-time to drive crossword. This should be accomplished through a page with an input and clue lookup.

[CLUE LOOKUP][TEXT TO INSERT]

Example

[36A]["WOLF"]

In the future this can be driven by an service that connects to Hipchat / Slack commands .

Example

/crossword 36A WOLF

Have a screen/lobby for players to wait until button is clicked to start.

Keep track of users stats and show them to users at /stats/user_id

Where should this live? Set up a public or private domain to run at.

This should end the puzzle and fill in all blanks and correct wrong letters.

All puzzles should have a timer showing current time. In the future we can also support pausing if all players leave.

This action should fill in the correct word and correct any mistakes.

Setup database for storing data, something like Redis. Ideally on AWS to support on current infra.

Here's a good write up.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/how-to-build-a-chat-application-with-amazon-elasticache-for-redis/

Ideas for schema

games
=> id
=> datetime_start
=> datetime_end
=> url to construct or data from  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/doshea/nyt_crosswords/master/2012/09/12.json

players (from hipchat)
=> id
=> hipchat_id
=> slack_id
=> name

messages 
=> id
=> player_id
=> game_id
=> datetime
=> space (e.g. 26A)
=> guess (e.g. WALF)

When puzzle is done, show success screen to all users.

Using some sort of cron set up we should have a way to autostart puzzles at noon.