diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7054a22
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+node_modules
+session/
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..75b192e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+The MIT License (MIT)
+
+Copyright (c) 2018 Lamer
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
+of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
+in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
+to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
+copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
+furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
+all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
+AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
+OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
+THE SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a364559
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+.PHONY: build
+build:
+	docker build -t sssc dockerfiles/
+
+.PHONY: dev
+dev:
+	docker run -ti --rm -v $(CURDIR):/app sssc ash
+
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..807e4f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+# SSSC
+
+Simple and Stupid Slack Client
+
+## Features
+
+SSSC is closely modeled after [(ii)](https://tools.suckless.org/ii/) which means that communication is facilitated by an `out` file and an `in` FIFO on the filesystem.
+
+No features other than sending and receiving messages while connected are supported. Retrieval of unread messages may be implemented at a later date, in a separate branch.
+
+Incoming data not handled by SSSC will be printed to stdout as formatted JSON.
+
+## Installation
+
+```
+$ yarn install
+```
+
+A Slack api token has to be provided as an environment variable called `TOKEN`. There's a Dockerfile included in the repository for convenience.
+
+## Usage
+
+Upon successful connection to Slack a directory with every channel, group and im will be created in the project root like so:
+
+```
+session/
+'-- your_team_name/
+    |-- general/
+    |   |-- in
+    |   '-- out
+    |-- random/
+    |   |-- in
+    |   '-- out
+    |-- alice/
+    |   |-- in
+    |   '-- out
+    '-- bob/
+        |-- in
+        '-- out
+```
+
+To send a message to alice:
+
+```
+$ echo "Hi" > ./session/your_team_name/alice/in
+```
+
+To keep track of the conversation:
+
+```
+$ tail -f ./session/you_team_name/alice/out
+```
+
+Incoming messages are formatted as follows:
+
+```
+{timestamp} <{username}> {text}
+```
+
+It's up to the user to further process this output as needed using his preferred method of text manipulation.
diff --git a/dockerfiles/Dockerfile b/dockerfiles/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f2019ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dockerfiles/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+FROM mhart/alpine-node:10
+
+RUN apk update
+
+RUN adduser -D -u 1000 dev
+
+RUN apk add --no-cache curl make sudo 
+RUN echo "dev ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" >> /etc/sudoers
+
+WORKDIR /app
+RUN chown dev:dev /app
+
+ENV HOME /home/dev
+USER dev
+
+CMD /usr/bin/node sssc.js
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d2684a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+{
+  "dependencies": {
+    "request": "^2.85.0",
+    "ws": "^5.1.0"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/sssc.js b/sssc.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b5c5efe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sssc.js
@@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+
+const { spawnSync } = require('child_process')
+const request = require('request');
+const fs = require('fs');
+const WebSocket = require('ws');
+const C = require('constants');
+const path = require('path');
+
+const SESSION_DIR = path.resolve(__dirname, './session');
+
+if (!fs.existsSync(SESSION_DIR)) {
+  fs.mkdirSync(SESSION_DIR);
+}
+
+const map = {};
+
+callSlackMethod('rtm.start', (data) => {
+  if (data.ok === false) {
+    process.stderr.write(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2) + '\n');
+
+    return;
+  }
+
+  const userName = data.self.name;
+  const teamName = data.team.name;
+
+  if (!fs.existsSync(`${SESSION_DIR}/${teamName}`)) {
+    fs.mkdirSync(`${SESSION_DIR}/${teamName}`);
+  }
+
+  map[data.self.id] = data.self.name;
+  map[data.team.id] = teamName;
+
+  for (let i = 0; i < data.users.length; i++) {
+    map[data.users[i].id] = data.users[i].name;
+  }
+
+  const chats = [].concat(
+    data.channels,
+    data.groups,
+    data.ims.map(im => {
+      im.name = map[im.user];
+
+      return im;
+    }),
+  );
+
+  const socket = new WebSocket(data.url);
+  const sendBuffer = {};
+
+  for (let i = 0; i < chats.length; i++) {
+    setupChat(socket, sendBuffer, teamName, chats[i]);
+  }
+
+  socket.on('message', (rawMessage) => {
+    let message = JSON.parse(rawMessage);
+
+    if (message.type === 'message') {
+      if (message.subtype === 'message_changed') {
+        const sub = message.message;
+
+        sub.text = '(*) ' + sub.text;
+        sub.channel = message.channel;
+
+        message = sub;
+      }
+
+      fs.appendFileSync(
+        `${SESSION_DIR}/${teamName}/${map[message.channel]}/out`,
+        `${message.ts} <${map[message.user]}> ${message.text}\n`,
+      );
+
+      return;
+    }
+
+    if (message.type === 'group_joined' || message.type === 'channel_created') {
+      setupChat(socket, sendBuffer, teamName, message.channel);
+
+      return;
+    }
+
+    if (sendBuffer[message.reply_to] !== undefined && message.ok === true) {
+      fs.appendFileSync(
+        `${SESSION_DIR}/${teamName}/${map[sendBuffer[message.reply_to]]}/out`,
+        `${message.ts} <${userName}> ${message.text}\n`,
+      );
+
+      delete sendBuffer[message.reply_to];
+
+      return;
+    }
+
+    process.stdout.write(JSON.stringify(message, null, 2));
+  });
+});
+
+function setupChat(socket, sendBuffer, teamName, chat) {
+  map[chat.id] = chat.name;
+
+  if (!fs.existsSync(`${SESSION_DIR}/${teamName}/${chat.name}`)) {
+    fs.mkdirSync(`${SESSION_DIR}/${teamName}/${chat.name}`);
+    fs.writeFileSync(`${SESSION_DIR}/${teamName}/${chat.name}/out`, '');
+    spawnSync('mkfifo',  [`${SESSION_DIR}/${teamName}/${chat.name}/in`]);
+  }
+
+  const inFifo = `${SESSION_DIR}/${teamName}/${chat.name}/in`;
+  const fd = fs.openSync(inFifo, C.O_RDONLY | C.O_NONBLOCK);
+
+  setInterval(() => {
+    const allocSize = 1024;
+
+    fs.read(fd, Buffer.alloc(allocSize), 0, allocSize, null, (error, size, buffer) => {
+      if (size > 0) {
+        const id = Date.now();
+
+        // remove trailing newlines
+        if (size < allocSize) {
+          while (size > 0 && buffer[size - 1] === 10) {
+            --size;
+          }
+        }
+
+        const text = buffer.slice(0, size).toString();
+
+        socket.send(JSON.stringify({id, channel: chat.id, type: 'message', text}));
+
+        sendBuffer[String(id)] = chat.id;
+      }
+    });
+  }, 128);
+}
+
+function callSlackMethod(apiMethod, callback = (...args) => {}, params = {}) {
+  // @Incomplete: replace external library with a simple https call
+  request.get(
+    {
+      url: `https://slack.com/api/${apiMethod}`,
+      qs: Object.assign({}, params, {token: process.env.TOKEN}),
+      json: true,
+    },
+    (error, response, data) => {
+      if (error !== null) {
+        console.log(error);
+        return;
+      }
+
+      callback(data, response);
+    }
+  );
+}
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..947f4f4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -0,0 +1,274 @@
+# THIS IS AN AUTOGENERATED FILE. DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE DIRECTLY.
+# yarn lockfile v1
+
+
+ajv@^5.1.0:
+  version "5.5.2"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/ajv/-/ajv-5.5.2.tgz#73b5eeca3fab653e3d3f9422b341ad42205dc965"
+  dependencies:
+    co "^4.6.0"
+    fast-deep-equal "^1.0.0"
+    fast-json-stable-stringify "^2.0.0"
+    json-schema-traverse "^0.3.0"
+
+asn1@~0.2.3:
+  version "0.2.3"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/asn1/-/asn1-0.2.3.tgz#dac8787713c9966849fc8180777ebe9c1ddf3b86"
+
+assert-plus@1.0.0, assert-plus@^1.0.0:
+  version "1.0.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/assert-plus/-/assert-plus-1.0.0.tgz#f12e0f3c5d77b0b1cdd9146942e4e96c1e4dd525"
+
+async-limiter@~1.0.0:
+  version "1.0.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/async-limiter/-/async-limiter-1.0.0.tgz#78faed8c3d074ab81f22b4e985d79e8738f720f8"
+
+asynckit@^0.4.0:
+  version "0.4.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/asynckit/-/asynckit-0.4.0.tgz#c79ed97f7f34cb8f2ba1bc9790bcc366474b4b79"
+
+aws-sign2@~0.7.0:
+  version "0.7.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/aws-sign2/-/aws-sign2-0.7.0.tgz#b46e890934a9591f2d2f6f86d7e6a9f1b3fe76a8"
+
+aws4@^1.6.0:
+  version "1.7.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/aws4/-/aws4-1.7.0.tgz#d4d0e9b9dbfca77bf08eeb0a8a471550fe39e289"
+
+bcrypt-pbkdf@^1.0.0:
+  version "1.0.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/bcrypt-pbkdf/-/bcrypt-pbkdf-1.0.1.tgz#63bc5dcb61331b92bc05fd528953c33462a06f8d"
+  dependencies:
+    tweetnacl "^0.14.3"
+
+caseless@~0.12.0:
+  version "0.12.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/caseless/-/caseless-0.12.0.tgz#1b681c21ff84033c826543090689420d187151dc"
+
+co@^4.6.0:
+  version "4.6.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/co/-/co-4.6.0.tgz#6ea6bdf3d853ae54ccb8e47bfa0bf3f9031fb184"
+
+combined-stream@1.0.6, combined-stream@~1.0.5:
+  version "1.0.6"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/combined-stream/-/combined-stream-1.0.6.tgz#723e7df6e801ac5613113a7e445a9b69cb632818"
+  dependencies:
+    delayed-stream "~1.0.0"
+
+core-util-is@1.0.2:
+  version "1.0.2"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/core-util-is/-/core-util-is-1.0.2.tgz#b5fd54220aa2bc5ab57aab7140c940754503c1a7"
+
+dashdash@^1.12.0:
+  version "1.14.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/dashdash/-/dashdash-1.14.1.tgz#853cfa0f7cbe2fed5de20326b8dd581035f6e2f0"
+  dependencies:
+    assert-plus "^1.0.0"
+
+delayed-stream@~1.0.0:
+  version "1.0.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/delayed-stream/-/delayed-stream-1.0.0.tgz#df3ae199acadfb7d440aaae0b29e2272b24ec619"
+
+ecc-jsbn@~0.1.1:
+  version "0.1.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/ecc-jsbn/-/ecc-jsbn-0.1.1.tgz#0fc73a9ed5f0d53c38193398523ef7e543777505"
+  dependencies:
+    jsbn "~0.1.0"
+
+extend@~3.0.1:
+  version "3.0.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/extend/-/extend-3.0.1.tgz#a755ea7bc1adfcc5a31ce7e762dbaadc5e636444"
+
+extsprintf@1.3.0:
+  version "1.3.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/extsprintf/-/extsprintf-1.3.0.tgz#96918440e3041a7a414f8c52e3c574eb3c3e1e05"
+
+extsprintf@^1.2.0:
+  version "1.4.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/extsprintf/-/extsprintf-1.4.0.tgz#e2689f8f356fad62cca65a3a91c5df5f9551692f"
+
+fast-deep-equal@^1.0.0:
+  version "1.1.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/fast-deep-equal/-/fast-deep-equal-1.1.0.tgz#c053477817c86b51daa853c81e059b733d023614"
+
+fast-json-stable-stringify@^2.0.0:
+  version "2.0.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/fast-json-stable-stringify/-/fast-json-stable-stringify-2.0.0.tgz#d5142c0caee6b1189f87d3a76111064f86c8bbf2"
+
+forever-agent@~0.6.1:
+  version "0.6.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/forever-agent/-/forever-agent-0.6.1.tgz#fbc71f0c41adeb37f96c577ad1ed42d8fdacca91"
+
+form-data@~2.3.1:
+  version "2.3.2"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/form-data/-/form-data-2.3.2.tgz#4970498be604c20c005d4f5c23aecd21d6b49099"
+  dependencies:
+    asynckit "^0.4.0"
+    combined-stream "1.0.6"
+    mime-types "^2.1.12"
+
+getpass@^0.1.1:
+  version "0.1.7"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/getpass/-/getpass-0.1.7.tgz#5eff8e3e684d569ae4cb2b1282604e8ba62149fa"
+  dependencies:
+    assert-plus "^1.0.0"
+
+har-schema@^2.0.0:
+  version "2.0.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/har-schema/-/har-schema-2.0.0.tgz#a94c2224ebcac04782a0d9035521f24735b7ec92"
+
+har-validator@~5.0.3:
+  version "5.0.3"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/har-validator/-/har-validator-5.0.3.tgz#ba402c266194f15956ef15e0fcf242993f6a7dfd"
+  dependencies:
+    ajv "^5.1.0"
+    har-schema "^2.0.0"
+
+http-signature@~1.2.0:
+  version "1.2.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/http-signature/-/http-signature-1.2.0.tgz#9aecd925114772f3d95b65a60abb8f7c18fbace1"
+  dependencies:
+    assert-plus "^1.0.0"
+    jsprim "^1.2.2"
+    sshpk "^1.7.0"
+
+is-typedarray@~1.0.0:
+  version "1.0.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/is-typedarray/-/is-typedarray-1.0.0.tgz#e479c80858df0c1b11ddda6940f96011fcda4a9a"
+
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+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/isstream/-/isstream-0.1.2.tgz#47e63f7af55afa6f92e1500e690eb8b8529c099a"
+
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+  version "0.1.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/jsbn/-/jsbn-0.1.1.tgz#a5e654c2e5a2deb5f201d96cefbca80c0ef2f513"
+
+json-schema-traverse@^0.3.0:
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+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/json-schema-traverse/-/json-schema-traverse-0.3.1.tgz#349a6d44c53a51de89b40805c5d5e59b417d3340"
+
+json-schema@0.2.3:
+  version "0.2.3"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/json-schema/-/json-schema-0.2.3.tgz#b480c892e59a2f05954ce727bd3f2a4e882f9e13"
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+json-stringify-safe@~5.0.1:
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+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/json-stringify-safe/-/json-stringify-safe-5.0.1.tgz#1296a2d58fd45f19a0f6ce01d65701e2c735b6eb"
+
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+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/jsprim/-/jsprim-1.4.1.tgz#313e66bc1e5cc06e438bc1b7499c2e5c56acb6a2"
+  dependencies:
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+    extsprintf "1.3.0"
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+
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+    mime-db "~1.33.0"
+
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+
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+
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+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/request/-/request-2.87.0.tgz#32f00235cd08d482b4d0d68db93a829c0ed5756e"
+  dependencies:
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+    aws4 "^1.6.0"
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+    combined-stream "~1.0.5"
+    extend "~3.0.1"
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+
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+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/safe-buffer/-/safe-buffer-5.1.2.tgz#991ec69d296e0313747d59bdfd2b745c35f8828d"
+
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+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/safer-buffer/-/safer-buffer-2.1.2.tgz#44fa161b0187b9549dd84bb91802f9bd8385cd6a"
+
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+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/sshpk/-/sshpk-1.14.2.tgz#c6fc61648a3d9c4e764fd3fcdf4ea105e492ba98"
+  dependencies:
+    asn1 "~0.2.3"
+    assert-plus "^1.0.0"
+    dashdash "^1.12.0"
+    getpass "^0.1.1"
+    safer-buffer "^2.0.2"
+  optionalDependencies:
+    bcrypt-pbkdf "^1.0.0"
+    ecc-jsbn "~0.1.1"
+    jsbn "~0.1.0"
+    tweetnacl "~0.14.0"
+
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+
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+    safe-buffer "^5.0.1"
+
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+
+uuid@^3.1.0:
+  version "3.2.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/uuid/-/uuid-3.2.1.tgz#12c528bb9d58d0b9265d9a2f6f0fe8be17ff1f14"
+
+verror@1.10.0:
+  version "1.10.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/verror/-/verror-1.10.0.tgz#3a105ca17053af55d6e270c1f8288682e18da400"
+  dependencies:
+    assert-plus "^1.0.0"
+    core-util-is "1.0.2"
+    extsprintf "^1.2.0"
+
+ws@^5.1.0:
+  version "5.1.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/ws/-/ws-5.1.0.tgz#ad7f95a65c625d47c24f2b8e5928018cf965e2a6"
+  dependencies:
+    async-limiter "~1.0.0"