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Botriot
Botriot
by nobits
botriot is a service that generates chat bots that can be added to yourpersonal or professional chat clients. Along with hosting these bots, botriot also comes packaged with a plethora of organic and artismal chat commands. This is useful for many reasons, it facilitates fun and humor among your company. Helps you check status of builds, deploy features, SMS your teammates, order pizza, see who is in the office based on wifi presence, give you a quote from any movie or TV show. This is just a small sample of what is available and possible!
Judging Instructions
- Go to botriot.com
- Take a gander at the pretty pictures in our slideshow.
- Click the Test my Commands button to talk to our demo bot
- Click on the Sign in with Twitter button to begin the bot creation flow
- You will then be taken to a page where you will be asked to name your bot, give it a name
- After creating your bot, you will then enter the dashboard which will be your main area to play in
- The Commands tab presents a lovely list of commands that are currently supported by your bot
- You can click on any of the rows to see an interactive demo of the command with your very own bot
- The Status section will describe real-time information about your bot
- The Rooms section provides you with an opportunity to connect your bot to a CampFire lobby that is owned by you or one of your cohorts
- The Settings section will give you the opportunity to rename your bot which will effectively change the profile image attached to your bot
Who
JonRohan — San Francisco, CA
caseycrites — San Francisco, CA
wadey — San Francisco, CA
dsmith — Cali-forn-i-a
How
Design
- Logo font: Harabara
- Bot doodles font: Alphabots
- Bot Avatars: http://robohash.org/
Web Services
- RottenTomatoes.com
- Wordnik.com
- Mustachify.me
- Whatthecommit.com
- Itsthisforthat.com
- Fuckyeahnouns.com
- Google.com (Image Search)
- Twitter.com (Search)
- Youtube.com
- Wikipedia.org
- Simplegeo.com (Places, Context)
Tools
- Linode
- MongoDb
- Redis
- Caffeine
- Alcohol
Libraries
- Express
- Mongoose
- Mongoose-Auth
- Mongo-Connectdb
- Socket.io
- Socket.io-sessions
- Hook.io
- Request
- Less
- EJS
- Wadey-Ranger
- Underscore
- Async
- NLogger
- Connect-Redis
Votes
Your Vote
Voting is now closed.
Other Votes
(82)
ethan_andersonjudgemtoymil
contestantGood chatbot. I mustached everything under the sun. Try !mustache zorro for many, many lulz. Love to see IRC support. I like this!
EDIT: I somehow missed the ability to make my own bot. Big ups to for that.
geradjudgeLove mustachifying people. Can’t wait until it supports Skype. Slightly lower marks for innovation because it’s inspired by other chat tool built-ins. Overall, something that I think can be really useful
3rd-Eden
contestantIt looks well designed, for what can be designed for a campfire bot.
I can certainly see how this would be useful for users, but I do think that some people would prefer to run the bot them selfs, for private channels etc.
Overall it felt really complete good job and good luck in this final hour
chapel
contestantI checked this out earlier last week but totally forgot to vote on it. I am a fan of chat bots and like the utility of this. I also like that you used Hook.io so kudos.
robhawkesjudgeHa, this is awesome! I love the ability to use the hooks to create your own commands. I must remember to use this more in the future.
jeffreyjudgeChrisCinelli
contestantMustachify is awesome! Very nice project. You my even end up creating a great entertaining project.
atsuya
contestantfun awesome project! one thing though… no chat history by pressing up keys!?
- contestant
Thanks for the votes!
As far as chat history goes, we’re not really in charge of that. It really depends on whether campfire supports it (and IRC and others in the future).
rcrowleyjudgeThe webhooks seal the deal. Hubot is now within everyone’s reach.
ericflojudgeI really like this one, because I can see actually using it!
I’ve coded up a bunch of chat bots and it’s always tedious, but you’re taking all that difficulty away.
I immediately got what this entry was about, it is well-designed, and it works.
It would only be better if you supported more services out-of-the-box.
caolanjudgeA solid entry, well designed. The interface is great and being able to ‘chat’ with your bot (without using a real channel) is a nice touch.
There are a good array of commands, and the webhooks seem like a good idea for extending a bot.
I only wish the team had time to finish the IRC support.
RafaelCorralesjudge- contestant
Don’t think this entry should count, cause I know Rafael. Unless he increases the stars. ;–) Then I have no idea who he is.
rauchgjudgeAwesome! A little bummed it prioritized Campfire over IRC, but this app is the right combination of fun AND useful.
maraksquiresjudgeGreat job!
A very solid showing for a 48 hour period. I don’t personally use CampFire, so it would have been nice to see this work in plain IRC first, then have a Campfire plugin.
One of the things I really like about this project is that part of it’s infrastructure is built on a library very near and dear to me, http://hook.io .
I spoke a bit with the team, and since the team is already using hook.io, they are in a position to utilize a lot of existing open-source infrastructure, and even contribute back to the community!
I hope to see this project become successful and see the team contribute back some of the code to the community.
seanami
contestantThis is definitely one of my favorite entries. BRAVO! I have to get this in our campfire at work as soon as possible.
I love the idea of getting a bot in a campfire that’s easily extensible and already comes with a long list of commands for providing utility as well as fun/humor. One of the primary purposes of campfire (IMO) is team bonding for distributed teams, and this is great for facilitating that.
Way to go at taking a focused idea, keeping it simple, executing the shit out of it, and then presenting it really well. Being able to actually try the commands on the page without any signup or setup is great.
therazorbladejudgeThis is an impressive list of commands and APIs you have integrated with, but I don’t get how this is useful… It seems to be better as a human interface for common web services and APIs than a chat bot…
- contestant
This is a perfect example why this is useful http://zachholman.com/posts/why-github-hacks-on-side-projects/. Hubot was our inspiration, we wanted to make it a service that anyone could use to have their own hubot
- therazorbladejudge
I guess its a hacker culture thing. But for me, this is a really cool natural language interface for a really impressive list of commands.
ekryskijudgeThis app is sick! These guys did such an amazing job in only 48 hours. I am really impressed. They took the 37signals approach and kept it simple but it provides endless fun for hours. Not to mention the utility that it provides in development environments. A great mixture of fun and function with a simple interface. This is extremely polished both visually and technically. Well done :–).
wjgilmorejudgeVery slick, this has real potential. Very, very easy to use.
mdejudgeNice site design. Very usable, easy auth with Twitter, easy to play around with. Would be pretty useful for folks with an IRC chatroom. Nicely plug-and-play.
mikealjudgethis would be a considerably better entry if it had IRC support with Campfire “coming soon” :(
- contestant
stay tuned, after the judging is done, irc support is one of the first things on our list.
bundy
contestantMustache and pivot commands kept me entertained throughout the entire day. I could really see a library of webhooks developing from dedicated devs who just love this kind of stuff. Great entry and I’m crossing my fingers to see this project go open source :)
kevingorski
contestant
patmeenanjudgeI like the concept and it looks to work well in practice. More example use cases would probably help sell it better though.
- contestant
Our inspiration for the bot was http://zachholman.com/posts/why-github-hacks-on-side-projects/. We wanted to let anyone have one, since github’s isn’t available.
We have the whole catalog of commands listed in the user dashboard.
dylang
contestantWe’ve wanted a new bot to replace our dead Ruby-based Campfire bot. Great job, and killer UI. Puts professional admin ui’s to shame.
- contestant
Thanks! If you have any feature requests, I’d love to hear them.
jolieodelljudgeNoice! I like the “pivot,” but I love the “wheretoeat.” You guys mixed in some usefulness with the hilarity. Hence, I gave you five stars in the Utility/Fun category. 2.5 stars for utility, and 2.5 stars for fun.
But seriously, I always wanted a chatbot like this. I’ve seen ‘em around quite a bit (2 stars for innovation), but you did a really great job making something I think IM-ing devs will actually want to use.
- contestant
The bot isn’t the innovation, it’s the fact that you can spin up your own bot. Bot As A Service (BAAS). Now anyone can have one without programming.
luisivan
contestantGood idea! Continue developing it!
- contestant
We plan on it, already have a large list of features ideas and improvements
rhdoenges
contestantsweet. Reminds me of github’s Hubot. A LOT.
- contestant
That was our inspiration, we were like, “hey everyone should have an awesome bot like hubot”
mustardamus
contestantbenatkin
contestantIt’s really fun if you like Internet memes. The pivot command is clever, too. It works quite well. I was able to participate in the guest chat and add a bot to my own free campfire chat room.
ncb000gt
contestantGreat job. Bots aren’t anything new but you guys have thrown a great twist onto managing them. Well done. :)
!fuckyeah
DamonOehlman
contestantSeriously guys, wow. Be very interested in hearing your experience with hook.io as it’s impressive what you’ve been able to integrate into the system.
I’m amazed what you guys achieved in 48 hours. I’m hooking up my Campfire chat room now :)
Amazing! It’s like an automated Aardvark meets the old Ask Jeeves.
Congrats on creating something so innovative in such a short time. It might be nice to be able to click on the list of things you can do rather than have to remember the commands.