5 ms·

Show HN: Fusebot – Developer bot for Discord and Slack

76 points by chrismore 5y ago

chrismore 5y ago
Fusebot is a Discord and Slack bot maker to create custom slash commands using JavaScript/Node.js/npm with a web IDE.
- e12e 5y ago
  Seems to just hang after /fusebot command in discord? Is it overwhelmed?
  - chrismore 5y ago
    Me too. Looking into it.
  - chrismore 5y ago
    Try now
    - e12e 5y ago
      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?
      - chrismore 5y ago
        Yeah, we have been discussing about a mobile-friendly web IDE. How would you prefer to do development on mobile?
        e12e 5y ago
        I think that on a phone,I'd prefer a native app for editing/writing (does not have to be part of your product) - and an easy way to upload/paste in code. Along with a very simple web editor for simple changes. Ed: probably the minimum for editing on a phone is a dedicated screen/view/activity for editing - as the on screen keyboard takes up a lot of room.
- stevenicr 5y ago
  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'
  - janczukt 5y ago
    Yes it is just for slash commands for now. What mode of iteraction would you like to see? What do you mean when you say "send copies when it detects X thing or Y person"?
    - stevenicr 5y ago
      if I had a 24/7 bot could sit in a discord and listen.. when it hears and word from [list of words] - it copies that statement and sends it to [my fantasy yahoo pipes remake] that emails me a copy and adds a post to my private wordpress and.. If it hears that a person from [list of persons] says something, it copies what they said, along with timestamp, send copies to my other places.. this way I can get notified upon specific events and don't have to watch 24/7 to see when 'princessK' posts a new decree.. or someone mentions digitalCoin X.. I could see that being used a lot by many people.. I would love to have a few other messages posted before and after [said event] also sent.. this way I could likely scan an email while on the go and get some context.. I'd also use such a bot for moderation warnings.. and if I can send a post to my private-wordpress - then all of my moderators can get auto-notified that a new post was made - which could include details like [badKeyword] was said.. but person Nickname.. timestamp.. possibly include the 5 lines of chat before.. I guess kind of like how google alerts works.. and there are bridges with matrix that would allow one to cross post and such.
      - janczukt 5y ago
        I get what you are saying and your mention of yahoo pipes makes me nostalgic. I'd love to discuss it more if you can join our discord/slack at https://fusebit.io/contact https://fusebit.io/contact. In particular I am interested in how you would want to express the logic behind those rules - do you see yourself writing a piece of JavaScript?
judge2020 5y ago
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 5y ago
  Good point. Yeah, no sign up for the service, but if your Discord or Slack instance requires auth, you would need to do that.
paulz_ 5y ago
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 5y ago
Offtopic: Do Zoom bots exist, or technically possible?
- tn1 5y ago
  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 https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/guides/build
- janczukt 5y ago
  What is it you'd like to do with Zoom from Discord? Fusebot allows you to write code in Node.js and use all public npm modules, so you can pretty much do anything.
ldd 5y ago
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 5y ago
  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)
  - janczukt 5y ago
    Yes, serverless is a great match, especially for human-triggered slash commands. BTW, Fusebot is not subject to the 3s limitation. We take care of responding to Discord within 3s and then let you run your code for longer than 3s and send any number of responses afterwards.
- chrismore 5y ago
  Oh nice. Did other people use your bot or was it mostly for your channels?
  - ldd 5y ago
    It was mostly for my channels and discord server to provide a way to collect creatures, trade them, buy and sell items, etc. I haven't really considered open sourcing it yet, but I can see how other monster taming games may eventually want to implement something like it ;D
spencersharkey 5y ago
I've been working on something similar as a side project. A serverless Discord Bot solution that runs a custom made SDK. We take a very similar approach to Cloudflare Workers where we run user's applications in v8 isolates. I'm the only person working on this, and mostly in my spare time, but check it out: https://pylon.bot/ https://pylon.bot/ Here's the SDK docs so you can see the breadth of what's possible: - https://pylon.bot/docs/intro https://pylon.bot/docs/intro - https://pylon.bot/docs/reference/index.html https://pylon.bot/docs/reference/index.html We're still in beta, but a lot of people are using the bot today. One thing that's great is that you can rapidly iterate on your code without "restarting" the bot because of how the infrastructure is set up. Deploy of your script takes less than a second. And, we support more than just what appears to be registering a single slash command :P
- chrismore 5y ago
  Very cool. I will check it out.
- luciferchase 5y ago
  I can confirm this is super cool! We added the pylon bot to our server and so far it was the best bot that we ever had! Almost 99% of uptime. Thank you so much for this!
- DoctorOW 5y ago
  I am reminded of YAGPDB.xyz https://docs.yagpdb.xyz/reference/custom-command-examples https://docs.yagpdb.xyz/reference/custom-command-examples It uses Golang text/template functions to do some eay bot extension. It's less complete than this but it's also got a lot more boilerplate out of the way.
- pistoriusp 5y ago
  Do you have any technical docs on how you use V8 in this case?
yavorg 5y ago
it just needs MS Teams j/k
- janczukt 5y ago
  We hear your yavorg, will make it happen ;)
stygiansonic 5y ago
Just wanted to say kudos for the easy onboarding process and great documentation. (https://github.com/fusebit/fusebot https://github.com/fusebit/fusebot)
- janczukt 5y ago
  Thank you! You can also find us on Discord and Slack: https://fusebit.io/contact https://fusebit.io/contact

76 points by chrismore 5y ago

chrismore 5y ago

Fusebot is a Discord and Slack bot maker to create custom slash commands using JavaScript/Node.js/npm with a web IDE.

e12e 5y ago
Seems to just hang after /fusebot command in discord? Is it overwhelmed?
- chrismore 5y ago
  Me too. Looking into it.
- chrismore 5y ago
  Try now
  - e12e 5y ago
    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?
    - chrismore 5y ago
      Yeah, we have been discussing about a mobile-friendly web IDE. How would you prefer to do development on mobile?
      - e12e 5y ago
        I think that on a phone,I'd prefer a native app for editing/writing (does not have to be part of your product) - and an easy way to upload/paste in code. Along with a very simple web editor for simple changes. Ed: probably the minimum for editing on a phone is a dedicated screen/view/activity for editing - as the on screen keyboard takes up a lot of room.
stevenicr 5y ago
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'
- janczukt 5y ago
  Yes it is just for slash commands for now. What mode of iteraction would you like to see? What do you mean when you say "send copies when it detects X thing or Y person"?
  - stevenicr 5y ago
    if I had a 24/7 bot could sit in a discord and listen.. when it hears and word from [list of words] - it copies that statement and sends it to [my fantasy yahoo pipes remake] that emails me a copy and adds a post to my private wordpress and.. If it hears that a person from [list of persons] says something, it copies what they said, along with timestamp, send copies to my other places.. this way I can get notified upon specific events and don't have to watch 24/7 to see when 'princessK' posts a new decree.. or someone mentions digitalCoin X.. I could see that being used a lot by many people.. I would love to have a few other messages posted before and after [said event] also sent.. this way I could likely scan an email while on the go and get some context.. I'd also use such a bot for moderation warnings.. and if I can send a post to my private-wordpress - then all of my moderators can get auto-notified that a new post was made - which could include details like [badKeyword] was said.. but person Nickname.. timestamp.. possibly include the 5 lines of chat before.. I guess kind of like how google alerts works.. and there are bridges with matrix that would allow one to cross post and such.
    - janczukt 5y ago
      I get what you are saying and your mention of yahoo pipes makes me nostalgic. I'd love to discuss it more if you can join our discord/slack at https://fusebit.io/contact https://fusebit.io/contact. In particular I am interested in how you would want to express the logic behind those rules - do you see yourself writing a piece of JavaScript?

judge2020 5y ago

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 5y ago
Good point. Yeah, no sign up for the service, but if your Discord or Slack instance requires auth, you would need to do that.

paulz_ 5y ago

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 5y ago

Offtopic: Do Zoom bots exist, or technically possible?

tn1 5y ago
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 https://marketplace.zoom.us/docs/guides/build
janczukt 5y ago
What is it you'd like to do with Zoom from Discord? Fusebot allows you to write code in Node.js and use all public npm modules, so you can pretty much do anything.

ldd 5y ago

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 5y ago
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)
- janczukt 5y ago
  Yes, serverless is a great match, especially for human-triggered slash commands. BTW, Fusebot is not subject to the 3s limitation. We take care of responding to Discord within 3s and then let you run your code for longer than 3s and send any number of responses afterwards.
chrismore 5y ago
Oh nice. Did other people use your bot or was it mostly for your channels?
- ldd 5y ago
  It was mostly for my channels and discord server to provide a way to collect creatures, trade them, buy and sell items, etc. I haven't really considered open sourcing it yet, but I can see how other monster taming games may eventually want to implement something like it ;D

spencersharkey 5y ago

I've been working on something similar as a side project. A serverless Discord Bot solution that runs a custom made SDK. We take a very similar approach to Cloudflare Workers where we run user's applications in v8 isolates. I'm the only person working on this, and mostly in my spare time, but check it out: https://pylon.bot/ https://pylon.bot/ Here's the SDK docs so you can see the breadth of what's possible: - https://pylon.bot/docs/intro https://pylon.bot/docs/intro - https://pylon.bot/docs/reference/index.html https://pylon.bot/docs/reference/index.html We're still in beta, but a lot of people are using the bot today. One thing that's great is that you can rapidly iterate on your code without "restarting" the bot because of how the infrastructure is set up. Deploy of your script takes less than a second. And, we support more than just what appears to be registering a single slash command :P

chrismore 5y ago
Very cool. I will check it out.
luciferchase 5y ago
I can confirm this is super cool! We added the pylon bot to our server and so far it was the best bot that we ever had! Almost 99% of uptime. Thank you so much for this!
DoctorOW 5y ago
I am reminded of YAGPDB.xyz https://docs.yagpdb.xyz/reference/custom-command-examples https://docs.yagpdb.xyz/reference/custom-command-examples It uses Golang text/template functions to do some eay bot extension. It's less complete than this but it's also got a lot more boilerplate out of the way.
pistoriusp 5y ago
Do you have any technical docs on how you use V8 in this case?

yavorg 5y ago

it just needs MS Teams j/k

janczukt 5y ago
We hear your yavorg, will make it happen ;)

stygiansonic 5y ago

Just wanted to say kudos for the easy onboarding process and great documentation. (https://github.com/fusebit/fusebot https://github.com/fusebit/fusebot)

janczukt 5y ago
Thank you! You can also find us on Discord and Slack: https://fusebit.io/contact https://fusebit.io/contact