ejohnst2 / idea-bot

Telegram bot for the idea machine

Highlights

telegram-bot-rb

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Installation

1. git clone https://github.com/ChangeInit/idea-bot

2. Create a Telegram bot using @BotFather

3. Setup your .env with the appropriate keys

4. bundle install

5. Configure your database in config/database.yml

6. Create the database rails db:create

7. On production rails telegram:bot:set_webhook to configure the webhook to communicate with Telegram. Or in development rails telegram:bot:poller to configure the poller.

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When things get weird run rails db:reset

Configuration

Shrine used for simpler setup. You can do this in config/initializers/shrine.rb.

heroku production deployment

heroku run rake db:schema:load
heroku run rails telegram:bot:set_webhook

Heroku for hosting AWS S3 for file hosting

idea-bot's Issues

introduce /idea slash command

onPress of the command button, the user should see the /idea button

Remove /idea slash command

the /idea slash command sends a message to the group rather than prepend the message with the necessary command as expected

Fix log time on the idea library

introduce react

Trigger welcome email upon successful payment confirmation

The welcome email should include the following...

• Welcome message
• Private link to the group chat

Generate a questionnaire for user testing

Introduce Facebook Pixel

Daily idea reminder

"Hey y'all! An idea a day keeps the doctor away. Look around you, be inspired, snap a pic, log your idea!"

If user does not have any ideas from the day, set a cron job to call the one_idea method at a certain time of the day.

Remove reminders_enabled and reminded_at from production database

Reverse order of ideas displayed to the view

the show page currently shows the ideas in the incorrect order. the first idea should be the most recently uploaded

Introduce SVG placeholders for images

Please see the following resource for breakdown on how to implement this feature

Optimize photos for instagram style feed

Please see the Shrine gem documentation for details on image upload, download and optimization

Introduce signup instructions

Bot signup should be via the one-on-one bot

custom index view for ideas

Create an index.html that the /link directs the user to in order to see their ideas.

This is the users idea log.

Link user to the Telegram group on tap of /start

Reverse load order of the ideas displayed to the web view

have to return the array in reverse order in comparision to the database table

Make it reject BLANK ideas

Can currently upload ideas that don't have any content, that's a problemo

Remove photo requirement

We currently require a photo to upload a new idea. We would like to experiment with the prospect of no longer requiring the photo.

how?

• prepend your idea with /idea which then generates the idea from the text appended to the string after the /idea slash command

Setup development enviornment

using idea_dojo_bot

Create ideation challenges/prompts

create a way for ideabot to encourage ideation by prompting people with #ideachallenges throughout their day. Encouraging people to continue seeing the world through a lens of possibility.

Allow upvote of an idea

users can upvote ideas through an added inline button on each logged idea. Maybe this can help determine the idea of the week?

webpage reflect organization of ideas by tag

Having the webpage reflect Telegrams organization of hashtags, so that user can see categories, buckets, and groups of ideas

introduce .env to gitignore

Fix 'Previous Idea was logged one minute ago" - it's false

Make the time real instead of always less than a minute ago

Allow upload of voice message

user should be able to post a voice message and have it recorded as an idea...

• website will have to support audio playback

Annual pricing plan

We should allow an annual pricing, as well as a monthly pricing option

Introduce instagram style idea news feed

Idea updates don't send since updating to SuperGroup

Following update to super group, new idea notifications no longer send to the appropriate group. I think its because the group ID number changed following the upgrade to the super group

Bot doesn't tell user when they log an idea to the bot via a direct message

Resurrect the personal logs

Mixup /ideas command

Options...

1. remove
2. only display the most recent ideas
3. random assortment of others peoples ideas

• returns bag of three random ideas

4. return the link to the app

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Ideating is a lonely existence
Does you day lack inspiration?

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feel of loading when user interacts with landing page

When 'click to fish', give feeling of 'fishing...' or 'searching...' or 'ideating...' before idea pops up in modal.

Fix CommandList with @BotFather

Need to update the menu list of commands with bot father...

Require user to be registered in order to upload triggered idea

currently any idea uploaded is put to a null user without a user name registered...

need to check the user is registered before triggering the create idea method

introduce inline keyboard idea button

the user should..

• see the idea button hanging over the keyboard and be able to press it triggering the format for a new idea

Hot Streaks! Con Fuego

Make it so that they can reach fire if they are on a roll!

If they have more than X amount of ideas in a day, they get some fire emojis.

unsubscribe from ThinkFish

a backslash command that ends the subscription on stripe and also removes them from the group and removes access to the bot.

Find more appropriate idea emoji