Inspiration

Our inspiration was ourselves and friends.

What it does

Our project is a Discord bot that will remind you to drink water and get up and stretch every so often while also providing examples of stretches to do. The bot will see when the user is online and will start counting time once that is detected. If the user is offline then no reminders will be sent. We believe this is helpful to gamers because if they are on their computer, Discord is also on, and we cause use this information to provide them reminders at the perfect time!

How we built it

We built the bot using Discord's API. through discord.js, and we used NodeJS for our programming language because that is what we were most familiar with.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into many challenges learning to use the Discord API as this was our first time using it, but through enough documentation reading we got the job done.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are proud that our bot has so many features available to keep us healthy. This is a bot we can continue to use in the future.

What we learned

We learned how to work as a team. Spreading the work and combining all of our different code was a challenge at first, but we made a system and that made things easier. We also became stronger with NodeJS, and can also now confidently make discord bots.

What's next for HelpfulBot

We want to keep working on HelpfulBot, we hope to add more features like weekly summaries of how often you took care of yourself. We would also like to expand to giving more than stretching examples, such as giving at home exercises or yoga positions.