@BaoFr

BuddyBot Devlog+

Ship was denied for a few reasons, spent the afternoon tweaking a bit, heres whats changed:
Changes made since last review:

Added a demo channel for BuddyBot6400 (I think)

Added four new original commands:
/rateme, /uranusfact, /networth, /secret67.

Fixed bugs (I think)

Continued customizing the bot’s personality and responses

• Removed Hangman as a command. Code is still inside the github repo but will not function

Bot remains online 24/7 on my Nest container, hopefully now ready for ship.

FINAL DEVLOG FOR BUDDYBOT 6400!!

I have finally finished developing and debugging Buddybot6400! Now running 24/7 on my very own Nest Container, this BuddyBot is ready to humor you in all sorts of commands.

Final Command List

Games

/buddybot6400-hangman — Play Hangman
/buddybot6400-scramble — Unscramble the word
/buddybot6400-rps — Rock Paper Scissors
/buddybot6400-roll — Random number roll
/buddybot6400-8ball — Magic 8-ball
/buddybot6400-coinflip — Flip a coin
/buddybot6400-trivia — Random trivia question
/buddybot6400-word-scramble — Word scramble challenge

Fun/Misc Commands

/buddybot6400-roast — Light roast (**One of my fav commands)
/buddybot6400-compliment — Nice compliment
/buddybot6400-joke — Random joke
/buddybot6400-catfact — Cat fact
/buddybot6400-meme — Random meme
/buddybot6400-quote — Random quoteUtilities
/buddybot6400-help — Full command list
/buddybot6400-ping — Bot status check
/buddybot6400-weather — Weather info
/buddybot6400-urban — Urban Dictionary lookup

I had a ton of fun (and challenges) while developing my first slackbot. I am a TOTAL noob at coding or anything involving things with this kind of software. For anyone currently making their own slackbot, piece of advice: Do not give up! Seriously, the feeling of being able to run a command after spending hours debugging is it totally awesome.

Devlog 3 for BuddyBot6400

Absolute torture today.

I spent a while debugging a small bug inside hangman and other multi-message commands, the bot was SUPER close to being ready for launch. However, my network cannot run off of a ipv6 public network and that was what my nest container provideded me, so running buddybot inside of nest was no longer a option. The Nest support channel has not gotten back to me at the time of this devlog, so I looked for other solutions.

I decided to try and host the bot inside of a Railway server, and after connecting my GitHub account, I was this close to finishing the bot. Unfortunately, I forgot to private the repo page before plugging in my tokens, leading to my tokens being invalidated. I tried everything afterwards, regenerating new tokens, deleting the original buddybot to try and get a WORKING bot, but it seems the tokens generated by my slack account are currently shadowbanned due to the leak. I will be trying again tomorrow and try to upload my bot onto a 24/7 server then, and hopefully this project will be ready for shipping then.

On the bright side, here is the complete command list that the finalized version of buddybot6400 will have:

Games

/buddybot6400-hangman — Play Hangman
/buddybot6400-scramble — Unscramble the word
/buddybot6400-rps — Rock Paper Scissors
/buddybot6400-roll — Random number roll
/buddybot6400-8ball — Magic 8-ball
/buddybot6400-coinflip — Flip a coin
/buddybot6400-trivia — Random trivia question
/buddybot6400-word-scramble — Word scramble challenge

Fun/Misc Commands

/buddybot6400-roast — Light roast
(Funny story about this, I had to “nerf” the roast command because the original command pulled roasts from a online roast forum, leading to roasts that were… a little too much. I ended up nerfing the roast command to be nicer today so its a bunch of pre-written roasts instead.)
/buddybot6400-compliment — Nice compliment
/buddybot6400-joke — Random joke
/buddybot6400-catfact — Cat fact
/buddybot6400-meme — Random meme
/buddybot6400-quote — Random quote

Utilities

/buddybot6400-help — Full command list
/buddybot6400-ping — Bot status check
/buddybot6400-weather — Weather info
/buddybot6400-urban — Urban Dictionary lookup

The finalized version of Buddybot6400 (hopefully shipping tomorrow) will feature over a dozen commands and include a lot of fun little easter eggs in dialogue. Hopefully tomorrow will be kinder to me, and hopefully I’ll be able to finally ship this project soon. I had told myself this would take about 2 days max lol. Thanks for tuning into another devlog of mine! Engineering is frustrating sometimes but I guess that’s apart of the fun isn’t it.

Second Devlog for Buddybot6400! 🤖🤖🤖

A lot was done today, using the integration copilot features in VS code, I was able to debug a lot of the problems I had yesterday, and was able to learn how to create mini games/actions for buddybot!

Today, features like 8ball, coin flip, trivia, memes, and my personal favorite, hangman! All of these features have helped my slackbot have a lot more personal touches and give it more life. My next devlog for buddybot6400 will most likely be my last one, once I get the bot to run 24 hours and debug a few small issues. (a few mini games are not currently working, and the help menu is not currently fully updated). Once I get my Nest account approved, buddybot6400 will be ready for 24 hour usage! I had a ton of fun making this bot, and hope some of you guys check it out. If some of you guys would like to check it out, use the “buddybot6400-ping” command in the botspam section of the Hack Club slack channel.

Currently working on my first Slackbot! I have no prior experience coding and am really enjoying going through the steps to making one. Will be working on this bot more throughout the next few days!