Cyber3000
- 5 Devlogs
- 6 Total hours
A Slackbot that brings Y2K cyber-nostalgia
This project was vetted by Shipwrights and is now up for voting. You can ship again after making more updates.
Feedback
Hey Srikar1705,
Awesome project! I'd love to see what you make in the future!
For any other questions, DM @stunt or create a ticket in Slack—#ask-the-shipwrights.
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Feedback
Hey Srikar1705,
You seem to have used a lot of AI in your readme. Please rewrite it yourself, as we would like to see how you worked on the project!
For any other questions, feel free to create a ticket in Slack—#ask-the-shipwrights.
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Feedback
Hello!
I love your project.
However, please fix the following issue(s) so we can allow you to submit this:
- the seek command returns Error: Failed to fetch the results :(
Any questions or concerns can be directed to @Jack Jacobson on slack or the #ask-the-shipwrights channel and know that we can't wait to see what you will make next!
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Feedback
Sorry, I am rejecting this project because your bot's demo link is broken; it should point to a public Slack channel where reviewers and voters can test the bot for themselves. Not an archived channel. Furthermore, your banner is incorrect. It should be a screenshot of the project in action.
Once this is fixed feel free to resubmit and we would be happy to take another look.
If you have any questions, DM @stunt on Slack or ask in #ask-the-shipwrights.
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Devlog 5 - Ephemeral??
- I have added all the commands to Cyber3000 which I wanted to and today is the day to run it 24/7 on Nest.
- I started seting up my bot on Nest from my command prompt, following the guide… And after I’ve done it, I opened Slack to try out my bot, just to get shocked that the responses were only visible to me!
- Throwback to 3 days ago, while testing my bot on Slack during the time of running my bot locally, I saw that all of it’s responses were ephemeral. I mistook that it was happening because I was running my bot locally.
- I had to add a line of code for every response in my code to fix it and I edited the index.js file from my command prompt itself using the command
nano index.js(Nano is CLI-based text editor) and restarted the container from Nest. - Now that everything is fixed, I’ve added the demo url to README.md on my Github Repo. Tested all the commands of my bot again and now I
thinkam sure that my project is ready to be shipped!
Do checkout the responses of the bot (it’s not ephemeral anymore!!) 👇🏻
Devlog 4 - The ASCII Art
- I was tinkering with my project, wondering which feature to add next. That’s when the ASCII Art came into my mind…
- For those who don’t know, ASCII was a character encoding standard and ASCII Art was a graphic design technique which used the those characters for art which was widely used during the 80s.
- I had known this art for a while and for Cyber3000’s theme, I thought it would be very cool to add it.
- Also added a help command for the bot.
Do check out the ASCII Art below!
Devlog 3 - My Own API Endpoint for Cyber3000
- Two days ago, I’ve just read the Hackclub guide on making a Slackbot which uses APIs to retrieve data such as a random cat image or a random joke.. And I found APIs interesting right from the start when I was trying to find a theme for making my Slack bot.
- I did some research on how basic API Endpoints work and how they retrieve and manage data formatted in JSON.
- Today, I started gathering a lot of information about 2000s tech and nostalgic memories of the 1990s-2010s(early) era and I have made two JSON files with the data from which my bot can retrieve the info and drop a random info. about 2000s tech or a nostalgic memory. Though I was not born in that era, I’m definitely very fond of it.
- I have added two commands for the above:
- /cyber3000-y2ktech
- /cyber3000-nostalgia
Below attached are their screenshots:
Devlog 2 - The Seek Command
- Thought of adding a command which gives a summary of any keyword entered and went for the DuckDuckGO API.
- Struggled with catching the proper part I needed from the API and displaying it to the user. As the it returned a lot of information about the keyword(such as links and a lot of specifications related to it), I had to filter the result only to get the short summary.
- The bot was replying with [object Promise] until I realised that I’ve missed
awaitwhen calling the function. The silly part was I’ve entered = instead of===in anifstatement. - Sorted everything at the end!
The Seek Command! 👇🏻
Devlog 1 - The First Commit
- Started with setting up my bot on Slack API website and wrote the boilerplate code for the bot on VSC in Node.js. Thanks to the Hackclub guide on making a Slack bot, it made my work easy.
- Struggled with testing my bot on Slack channel until I realised that my ‘node index.js’ was not running on my Terminal.
- Added a ‘/cyber3000-advice’ command which fetches a random advice from the AdviceSlip API
- Lastly, committed everything into my Github Repo
The advice command:
