Holo Bot is one of my projects that is still being maintained. It is a discord bot that checkes web servies and help notify users with new contents. After some years (2, to be more specific), many more functionality has been added.
Here are a list of tricks it could do:
- Check today’s hololive member stream schedule.
- Check members that are currently streaming.
- Share twitter posts related to hololive member in channels.
- @ a lot of people (which makes me happy) and notify them that their oshi are going live.
- Verify their YT channel membership status and give them discord roles according to their status.
- Roll a dice! For some reason, many users use this feature to decide what are they going to eat for lunch.
It all started back in 2020 when my fellow 35P, Ben DMed me and asked if I could develope a discord bot that could broadcast twitter posts faster. By the time what we had is a discord bot using IFTTT service, which the update speed was abysmal. And yes, we knew that we could pay to make it faster. However, it would be nice if we could have better services without spending any dollar right? And afterall, we are software engineers. So I build a discord bot, that interacts with Twitter’s API, hosted it on Oracle cloud’s free tier VM and there we have it, a faster bot with 0 cost.
For me it is a platform that I could try out many new things, think about software designs and try implement them. This is the first time that I try to implement REST service, which I did not know when interviewing with GOGORO for a intern job (and did not got the job probably because of this). Moreover, although Java the programming language is deemed as one of the languages that could not keep up with time and gradually drop out of favor among the developer community, it is still great and many still runs on it. Therefore, using Java could probably open up some opportunity for me when finding a job later on.
When looking back, this is probably the project that I have kept to support for the longest time. And finding out that many on the discord server use what I have built brings me pure joy. It remindes me why I started programming.
If you want to check out the bot see: