Zoomie the Self Care Bot

Zoomie!

Inspiration:

Motivated by the pandemic, (and the stress of our first hackathon) our team sought ways to have technology make us feel better during difficult times.

What it does:

Our bot integrates into Discord servers and sends users a random self-care tip through private messages when prompted with "Hey Zoomie." We have also included some easter eggs ;)

How it works:

We used Python to code the bot and used the discord.py API.

Challenges:

As our team is composed of 4 emerging hackers, for each of us, this was our first true hackathon experience. We had to partake in heavy research in order to learn Python, Discord bot programming, and how to work as a team. We are also spread out in different time zones, which presented some other problems.

Accomplishments:

We are all proud that we came out of this with a finished product! We also made great friends with each other along the way :)

What we learned:

We all learned a lot of Python really quickly and learned how to separate a large project amongst each other effectively.

What's next for Zoomie the Self Care Bot:

If possible, we would like to expand the project so that our bot automatically senses when someone appears online for the first time that day, and sends them one daily message as soon as that happens. We also would like to include a music element to our program so the bot can begin playing a playlist if requested.