[HN Gopher] Fusebot: Build a free Discord bot with no sign up or...
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       Fusebot: Build a free Discord bot with no sign up or server
        
       Author : chrismore
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2021-05-28 18:18 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (fusebot.io)
        
       | ldd wrote:
       | I went ahead and did a helper bot for my game using discord.js in
       | typescript.
       | 
       | It even has daily trivia and a currency -- necrocoins.
       | 
       | I think it went relatively well, but I can understand why other
       | people go for serverless solutions.
       | 
       | For those that want to know, google cloud's free tier was and is
       | enough to handle a bot with relatively low amount of active
       | players (around 590 as of this post)
        
         | ivw wrote:
         | I've also made a Discord slash commands bot recently in a
         | single AWS Lambda (Node.js) and a DynamoDB table (all free
         | tier). My only dependency is `discord-interactions`, to
         | validate requests, which Discord requires.
         | 
         | I like the serverless approach because if the bot commands are
         | only used a few times a day, the lambda only has to run a few
         | times a day and takes at most 0.5 sec (Discord has a 3 second
         | timeout for slash commands)
        
       | paulz_ wrote:
       | I'm not super familiar with this space but at first glance this
       | seems great!
       | 
       | I've been meaning to goof around with discord bots. When I do,
       | I'll be sure to check it out.
        
       | abdullahkhalids wrote:
       | Offtopic: Do Zoom bots exist, or technically possible?
        
         | tn1 wrote:
         | Here [1] are the types of things you can make with Zoom APIs.
         | Perhaps you'd like to make a Chatbot integration or an SDK
         | integration?
         | 
         | [1] https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/guides/build
        
       | chrismore wrote:
       | Fusebot is a Discord and Slack bot maker to create custom slash
       | commands using JavaScript/Node.js/npm with a web IDE.
        
         | stevenicr wrote:
         | does seem to just be /slash commands.
         | 
         | Saw the name fusebot and was hoping for another way to bridge
         | discord/matrix/twitter/insert-other-thing-here - that could be
         | smart enough to send copies when it detects X thing or Y
         | person.
         | 
         | Like the landing page though - and nice thought to put 'Too
         | busy now to install? Sign up for a reminder'
        
         | e12e wrote:
         | Seems to just hang after /fusebot command in discord? Is it
         | overwhelmed?
        
           | chrismore wrote:
           | Me too. Looking into it.
        
           | chrismore wrote:
           | Try now
        
             | e12e wrote:
             | Yep, think that did the trick!
             | 
             | Code editing isn't great on mobile - should maybe be able
             | to point to a github gist/file or something?
        
       | judge2020 wrote:
       | Note that 'no sign up or server' is regarding this service, not
       | discord itself - to have a bot (or use/test it) you need a
       | Discord account still.
        
         | chrismore wrote:
         | Good point. Yeah, no sign up for the service, but if your
         | Discord or Slack instance requires auth, you would need to do
         | that.
        
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