I made a teeny tiny bot that people can have fun with on Slack by sending messages to the bot, which will be stored in a bottle (it is essentially a JSON file, but yeah, we call it the bottle; you know the lore of the bottle bot), and then people can also anonymously read messages sent to the bottle randomly, so yeah, you can never choose what you will see, but let me leave it to you people to decide what you people will send, and yeah, at its core, this is what it is—quite simple, right?
What was challenging?
To be fair, this is quite a simple project, and the code itself, though I am not much familiar with JS, was quite simple, but the lore—well, I had to get creative. I agree it is not much, but well, I tried.
How to use it?
You can use the bot's commands, which are by themselves quite self-explanatory, in any channel inside Slack under Hack Club, and yeah, you can get more details on it from the readme on GitHub or Slack command descriptions themselves, or you know, just play around with it; it is stupidly simple.
What am I proud of?
Well, thanks to Hack Club, it motivated me to code after a long time without the help of AI! Yes, well, I have made projects, and when I started, AI wasn't that great, but then we (ahhm sorry I) got sucked into Codex, Claude, etc. I was starting to become too lazy (AI has its pros and cons), and yeah, this one, though I might have used AI for the logo and like NLM (Grammarly) for the grammar, I made sure to not let AI influence my lore and creativity into the story nor the code nor the idea itself, so yeah, even though this was a very small project, that makes me proud of myself that after a long time I coded all by myself instead of just using my intuition to orchestrate and command the AI to do it for me, and again, thanks, Hack Club.
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