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Ask HN: Should I build a chat bot for journaling?
I was dreaming about an idea of a telegram chat bot, that journals everything I would write to it.
It’ll have a set of storage options, that kick in based on the message content. Like adding a section to markdown doc in private GitHub repo for daily journaling.
Or adding a row to google spreadsheets for tracking money, calories or whatever. It’ll also have some scrapping background jobs to augment my input with bank transaction history, or whatever smart home integrations there are.
Would you want to have such a bot, or to contribute to the project?
- sharemywin 7y agowhat technology and would be it be open source? or how would that work? self hosted/Saas?
- peterdemin 7y agoI’m most experienced with Python, and I was going to make it work both as hosted and self-hosted.
- eb0la 7y agoSince most 'chatbot' stuff are callbacks, maybe Zappa might help you: https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa You can host it yourself, or deploy it as a lambda/cloud function/etc.
- BOOSTERHIDROGEN 7y agofor daily journaling I've found this apps [1] quite useful, maybe you get some idea. [1] https://thezenjournal.com/ https://thezenjournal.com/
- eb0la 7y agoThat's not a chatbot: it's an agent :-) I've got a similar use case, but I was thinking about Slack and not telegram: whenever I want to write something in my blog, send a message to the agent to enable the wp-admin parts of my blog. After writing I could just tell the agent to block wp-admin entirely. Not extra high/pentagon-grade secure; but enough to block login attempts (and maybe some exploits).
- muzani 7y agoI don't really want a chatbot. What I'd rather have is a terminal. "cost 12 food cash" to track an expense maybe or "dentist 3 pm Saturday", which is something Google Assistant already does extremely well I'm willing to learn the bot's language. It doesn't have to guess mine.