[API Key Request] Remindme bot \ stacker news ~meta

1413 sats \ 10 comments \ @remindme 26 Mar meta

[API Key Request]

Hi, I would like to use API keys with the Stacker News GraphQL API for the following reasons:

I would like to create a @remindme bot. It will work just like the built-in @delete bot except that I will not delete your comment but reply to it.

So if you type @remindme 1 year anywhere in a comment, I will reply to you in 1 year.

I will also reply to your command immediately so you know that I have registered your command.

When there are private replies or DMs on SN, I will probably use that.

I intend to also make this work for past mentions of me like this one.

I expect to call the following GraphQL queries or mutations:

upsertComment
and whatever the name of the query is to fetch notifications for mentions

I estimate that I will call the GraphQL API this many times (rough estimate is fine):

depends on how many people use it

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134 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 26 Mar

@k00b I suggest also that this feature to not be FREE, like @delete one too ! Make them pay. Each call to the bot must be 1 or 10 sats, deducted directly from user balance. In this way is avoided abuse and also sustain financially SN.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @kristapsk 26 Mar

This kinda makes sense, but, then again, it means developers of RemindMe bot need to also figure out some business model. And SN would benefit from it anyway as user would pay sats to SN when requesting reminder from this bot. And also it's just useful feature, have used such bots on both Reddit and Twitter.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 26 Mar

There is also a GitHub issue out there to add this bot functionality to SN directly, if you interested in doing that.

100 sats \ 4 replies \ @k00b 26 Mar

We have a change we need to make to API keys first, but I'll grant them to you once that's live.

284 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 26 Mar

Also we’d prefer this to be a native bot built directly into the product. So if you’re interested in building that I think it has a 250k sat award on it.

100 sats \ 2 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 27 Mar

It's currently labeled good first issue, I think that pays out 20k?

https://github.com/stackernews/stacker.news/issues/510

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 27 Mar

Aha! I'll update it. I need to add a section in the readme that people can suggest changing the difficulty level. I usually just try to make sure they have something