I have an annoying co-worker who constantly haggles me on Slack. I've since made a Slack bot, masquerading as me, who communicates with said co-worker. It's been a life saver.
Sounds like a job for Son of Anton
Ask HN: Do you have personal bots?
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#52I have a bot that every 30 minutes iterates over every comment on the top 25 posts in Reddit /r/all and replies "Mom's spaghetti" to any comment that contains the string "eminem".
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#53I wrote a bot that watched twitter for stock symbols and then applied a social sentiment index based on the tone of the tweet. The historical stock quotes were downloaded, and the stock was added to a polling system to capture future quotes. The social sentiment could then be turned into an indicator to determine when to buy/sell especially if used with other indicators. Well I forgot about the system then twitter ch…
Neat concept. Is there somewhere we can see this in action?
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#54I have a bot that every 30 minutes iterates over every comment on the top 25 posts in Reddit /r/all and replies "Mom's spaghetti" to any comment that contains the string "eminem".
How much karma have you gained? ^^
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#55Does scripts count?
I have a Google Script, which adds a new row everday at 2am with blank fields for me to put time in & out in timesheet. Same script generates a pdf every month & puts it in my gmail draft.
Another one auto downloads all the changed repos from my gitlab & guthub.
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#56I only run a small one for kicks: it updates my github page with a dummy commit each day. They got rid of streaks, but I still leave it running out of some misplaced sense of sentimentality. A few years ago, a friend and I built one that would scan twitter for tweets in the vein of “like to win $ITEM” or “RT to win $ITEM.” Our bot would automatically perform the requested action, and then text me (via twilio) for eac…
What about your prize bot violated Twitter policy?
Automated liking/retweeting is not allowed.
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#59I guess anything that is a script that repeats is a bot? I have one that scrapes over 2,000 used car websites to tell me if a specific type of collectible car is available under a certain price.
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#60I guess anything that is a script that repeats is a bot? I have one that scrapes over 2,000 used car websites to tell me if a specific type of collectible car is available under a certain price.
I did this while looking for a new apartment.