Here are my notes on how to make it work, it’s not as simple as I initially thought :)

1. Create a new now account
   Make a dedicated account for each open source application you want to deploy, as the free account is limited to 3 instances only. Sign up/in at https://zeit.co/login (leave page open, click the link on the email, go back to the tab where you entered your email).
2. create a new token at https://zeit.co/account/tokens
3. Set the token in Travis’ repository settings as NOW_TOKEN
4. Now use the terminal so set secrets in your now account
   • now secret add app-id
   • now secret add webhook-secret
   • now secret add private-key
     To encode the private key from GitHub, run this command in the folder that you downloaded private-key.pem to: cat private-key.pem | base64 --input - | pbcopy. The base64 encoded private-key.pem is now in your clipboard, you can paste it into your terminal after now secret add private-key
5. In your package.json file, create a new key “now”:

     "now": {
       "alias": “<your app name>“,
       "env": {
         "APP_ID": "@app-id",
         "NODE_ENV": "production",
         "PRIVATE_KEY": "@private-key",
         "WEBHOOK_SECRET": "@webhook-secret"
       }
     }
   

   <your app name> will end up as the sodomain of .now.sh.
6. Also in your package.json file, create a new script key "now-start", next to the current "start" script

   "scripts": {
     "start": "probot run ./server.js",
     "now-start": "PRIVATE_KEY=$(echo $PRIVATE_KEY | base64 -d) npm start"
   },
   

7. Create a file scripts/deploy.sh with this content

   #!/bin/sh
   now="npx now@7.1.1 --token=$NOW_TOKEN"
   $now --public
   $now alias
   $now rm --safe --yes wip-bot
   

8. Make it executable with chmod +x scripts/deploy.sh
9. Add to your .travis.yml file

   #!/bin/sh
   now="npx now@7.1.1 --token=$NOW_TOKEN"
   $now --public
   $now alias
   $now rm --safe --yes wip-bot
   

10. That’s it :) When tests pass on master, your app will be deployed to now automagically

So after you merge this PR, watch the travis build logs at travis-ci.org/hoodiehq/first-timers-bot and wait for the deploy step. If all goes well, you should see the logs of the newly deployed version at https://first-timers-bot.now.sh/_logs (look for the timestamps) 🙏

Once that looks all good, you can change the Webhook URL URL to https://first-timers-bot.now.sh on the bot's app settings.

We can add deploy to Glitch separately in another PR

closes #79